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<b>TREND NOW</b> The clue is in the name the secret service this squad of elite agents assigned with the task of protecting the President of the United States doesn't give much away luckily we've put our best people on the case and we found out what's really going on let's dig deep into a world of dark glasses inscrutable expressions and tech that would make James Bond salivate here are our top 10 secrets the Secret Service doesn't want you to know a bad thing.</div>
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secret offices on H Street in Washington DC there's a dull looking 9 story tan bricked unnamed building it's so indistinctive you could walk right past it and not even know it's there what is this anonymous building it's the headquarters of The Secret Service no one knows much about what's inside but it's thought there are many armories and a joint operation center however most of the Secret Service's work is done at the White House probably the most protected building on earth for example there are anti-aircraft missiles under the front lawn biometric recognition software controlling access to doors and a fully equipped doomsday bunker for the president to hide in when really bad stuff goes down the White House is designed like an onion with layers of Defense its outer perimeter is guarded by special agents and highly trained canine squads within that there's the middle ring we're told by the emergency response team finally the inner ring guarded by agents whose sole job is to protect the president it's thought there are 100 agents working at the White House at any one time although the official Number is classified </div>
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secret Arsenal as you'd expect The Secret Service has the latest in cutting-edge weaponry at their disposal when you're dealing with people who want to harm the president you have to get the job done first time a priority for the Secret Service is limiting collateral damage during a shootout the current submachine gun of choice is the p90 it's compact well designed and can easily be hidden inside a suit it uses custom ammunition designed to stay in the targets body rather than exit it which would potentially injure bystanders the traditional uniform of the Secret Service is the dark suit reflect sunglasses and an earpiece but why a suit gives the agent a serious businesslike look but still it's more accessible in public friendly than combat gear you can conceal weapons in a suit easily and the sunglasses protect them against liquid being thrown at them and also mean there won't be dazzled by the Sun when scanning the area for threats the most important part of the uniform however is the earpiece aliens are being directed by a supervisor in a control center at all times making sure they're always in the right place at the right time </div>
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not just the president while protecting the president is the Secret Service's priority they don't just protect him the first lady the vice president the rest of the first family and all former presidents all receive official protection presidential candidates get their own Secret Service squad while they're running for office this became policy after Robert Kennedy was assassinated while on the campaign trail in 1968 when the president appears anywhere you can guarantee there will be a large crowd and the Secret Service have a duty to protect them too they neutralize all threats so anyone traveling to see the president can feel safe that's why they used a custom ammunition we talked about earlier finally the Secret Service protects designated survivors at big political events like the State of the Union if say a bomb went off and everyone died you still need someone to carry on running the country one member of the cabinet is picked and they don't attend the event instead they're taken to a secure location by the Secret Service such as Mount weather in Virginia and protected until the event has finished </div>
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they're stuck to the present when you're guarding the president you have to go wherever they go literally even when the president goes to the bathroom there's an armed agent in there with him Ronald Reagan's agents even sat in on his prostate examinations a Secret Service monitor everything the president eats they watch his food being prepared making sure he never eats anything he shouldn't even if he's pictured ordering food in a takeaway to show that he's down with normal people it's likely he won't be able to eat what he ordered when the president appears at public events plainclothes Secret Service agents will be in the crowd ready to spring into action at a seconds notice if anything strange happens there will also be agents at the front and back of the president at all times agents call this part of the working the rope is the most unpredictable part of the job as you never know exactly who is in the crowd and what might be on their mind agents say is the most stressful part of their job where they really earn their money </div>
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brains over brawn they don't call these guys special agents for nothing Secret Service agents used to be primarily recruited from the military but nowadays they go for brains over brawn to become a special agent is a massively competitive process and you must fulfill strict selection criteria you need amazing school grades a clean criminal record and near-perfect vision you'll go through rigorous psychological assessments including a lie-detector test if you used illegal drugs after the age of 23 you're automatically disqualified from the process during training you'll learn how to neutralize attackers you'll learn the right pressure points to hit if you want to take someone down you'll learn the right wrist joints to attack with your special martial arts training you'll even learn the special move to employ in a crowd situation and on the president's belt ready to pull them out of harm's way even when you've landed the job you never stopped training plus you're not allowed to drink alcohol within 10 hours prior to your shift you can't protect the president with a hangover </div>
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no sworn oath contrary to what they tell you in Hollywood movies Secret Service agents do not swear an oath to lay down their life for the president however they're trained to protect the president at all times and if that involves taking a bullet so be it during their training agents have fake bullets fired at them so they know what it feels like to be hit and overcome the natural instinct of flinch in 1981 President Ronald Reagan was the victim of an assassination attempt in Washington while the shots were being fired special agent Jerry Parr reacted quickly enough to cover the president then push him into his waiting car agent Timothy McCarthy also acted quickly to become a human shield taking a bullet to the stomach to protect the president Reagan was also hit by bullets but not fatally if par McCarthy had reacted a split second later or if they had flinched from the gunfire it could have been a different story </div>
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advanced recon as we heard earlier the hardest part of the Secret Service's job is protecting the president when there events with large crowds as a result all events are planned to the smallest detail and everything they can do to minimize the possibility of an attack is done for example before the president's inauguration ceremony every inch that the president will travel is meticulously scoured mail boxes are taken away and manhole covers are welded shut so no one can place a bomb underground they even remove the door knobs from rooms overlooking the roof so no one can set up a snipers position the Secret Service will position their own snipers on roofs around the route it's even harder when the president has to make an unscheduled visit to a natural disaster site such as after a hurricane or flood in this case they try to get the president in and out as quickly as possible usually using the presidential helicopter Marine one more about that later </div>
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transport secrets we've all seen the presidential motorcade the seemingly endless parade of black stretch limos but there's only one president what is going on there a motorcade consists of up to 30 vehicles there's the lead car traveling five minutes ahead to clear the way there are several Secret Service cars armed to the teeth with agents there's a communications car at the back also containing a military aid and a doctor in the middle there is stagecoach containing the president however there are also identical decoy cars so no one can know for sure which one he is in since 9/11 there's also a car called the barrage jammer it jams cellphone reception in the area so would-be terrorists can't communicate it also makes detonating remote bombs a lot harder for air travel nothing's more secure than Marine one the presidential helicopter it has a range of 580 miles and a top speed of 183 miles per hour to help it fly through storms and into disaster zones with zero visibility it said the marine one has added secretive tech called ladar ladar consists of laser beams that create a 3d map of the area around the helicopter ladar can also detect chemical and biological poisons in the air keeping the president safe at all times </div>
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they know where you are if you're interested in the president it's safe to say the Secret Service is intra you for example agents maintain a database of inks working with ink manufacturers to keep it up-to-date if the president receives a threatening letter agents can identify the ink deducing which country or state the letter was sent from when the president is traveling in the motorcade there's a car filming the crowd if someone does anything they shouldn't like throw something at the motorcade they will easily be identified on the video The Secret Service uses numerous code names for the people they protect making it harder for outsiders to tracked who they're talking about president Trump's code name is mogul milania's is muse Barack Obama's is renegade Richard Nixon's code name was searchlight which is pretty ironic seeing as he's famous for orchestrating a cover-up </div>
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they're able wingman it seems when you're the leader of the free world you automatically become extremely attractive to the opposite sex helpfully the Secret Service often acts as wingman for their charges protecting them from their wives as well as bullets after President Lyndon Johnson was caught by his wife entertaining a young lady in the Oval Office The Secret Service installed an emergency buzzer system if mrs. Johnson was nearby an agent would press the buzzer and LBJ would quickly get rid of his guests Bill Clinton was another famously extramarital president to make sure his wife Hillary never walked in on him while he was up to no good his Secret Service team would coordinate with Hillary's agents even today one of Bill's lady friends has her own Secret Service code name she's known as energizer presumably because she keeps bill full of life plus she keeps on going and going and going what secret did you find the most enlightening </div>
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The Incredible Hulk received his superpowers after accidentally blasting himself with gamma radiation Wolverines powers were the result of a genetic mutation however if you think superpowers are the stuff of comic book fiction you'd be wrong bangs to the head illnesses and other unfortunate events have caused real people to be able to do things they couldn't do before superhuman things the average person can't do let's investigate here's our top ten people who gained superpowers after terrible accidents </div>
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Nikolay really a chink Oh our first superhero story takes us to the arms core region of Russia in 2014 12 year-old Nicholas ray ugly a chinko was walking home from school when he decided to stop and lean against a lamppost unfortunately the lamppost had some faulty wiring young Nikolai received an electric shock and was blasted across the pavement the next day Nikolai found that mental objects were sticking to him he dropped his spoon while he was eating and it's stuck to his chest he could stick coins and cutlery to his face what's more by using the power of his mind he could give his friends the same powers had Nikolai really gained superpowers when he was electrocuted by the lamppost was he a real-life version of Magneto from x-men scientists are skeptical saying that electrocution can't lead to people becoming magnetic they suggested he may have eaten something that had made him magnetic or that he has smooth and sweaty skin that objects can stick to or maybe he just covered himself in glue as for Nikolai he wants to put his skills to good use and be a superhero when he's older </div>
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Daniel two met at the age of three an English boy named Daniel had an epileptic fit this seizure apparently gave Daniel superhuman powers of memory and an extraordinary ability with Numbers as he grew up Daniel discovered he could do complex mathematical sums in his head wowing his family and friends Daniel's powers grew even stronger in his 20s he started to complete in memory competitions he could recite PI to 22,500 14 decimal places in a little over five hours he learned the Icelandic language in a week as a challenge on a TV show at the age of 25 Daniel was diagnosed with autistic savant syndrome which affects around 10% of the autistic population what makes Daniel different is that he can explain how it works since his seizure Daniel could see Numbers as shapes colors and textures for example five is a clap of thunder when Daniel multiplies two Numbers together two shapes merge creating a third shape he explained this in a TED talk in 2011 it's mental imagery maths without having to think </div>
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Jon Sarkin when he was 35 New Jersey chiropractor Jon Sarkin developed ringing in his ears which required brain surgery to fix unfortunately he then suffered a stroke and part of his brain had to be removed almost as soon as he left the hospital John became obsessed with drawing he would doodle draw and paint every waking hour despite never showing any interest or flair for art before when John returned to work he soon discovered that twisting spines wasn't for him anymore wondering if his new passion can make him any money he sent some ghostly pictures off to The New Yorker magazine to his delight the magazine bought them he's been a professional artist ever since his painting self from upwards of ten thousand dollars and Tom Cruise's movie production company bought the rights to his life story did his stroke and brain surgery removed the part of the brain and give him superhuman painting powers experts are baffled as it's so rare we'll have to wait for the movie to tell us </div>
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thai now in 1976 a 34 year old Vietnamese farmer called tiny elk was struck down by fever luckily he recovered but with an extra added superpower ty discovered he didn't feel like sleeping at night anymore in fact he hasn't been asleep since various scientists have visited ty at his home in Quang Nam Province to check he's telling the truth and to find out why he can't sleep anymore they've all agreed ty isn't making it up but as for the reason they have no idea they perform tests on ty to check his alertness and he passed them all his extra hours of waking time allowed tide to get a second job which helped him out money-wise but according to ty being awake all the time isn't much fun I feel like a plant without water he said in October 2006 30 years after his last sleep my wish now is to have a nap and Here I am feeling like I need a sleep after just waking up from one </div>
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Jason Padgett Jason Padgett was leaving on karaoke bar in Tacoma Washington in 2002 when he was brutally mugged and punched in the head the hospital treated him for concussion sending him home that night when he woke up the next morning 31 year old Jason realized he could see geometric shapes everywhere he went everything he could see was made up of fractals for the next three years he barely left the house suffering from depression eventually Jason began to try to draw the shapes that were in his head he produced drawings like this and this totally by hand he also enrolled in college to study mathematics doctors diagnosed Jason with acquired savant syndrome but were at a loss to explain his new superpower some believe the blow to his head destroyed the part of his brain that deals with object boundary formation MRI scans saw increased activity in the left parietal lobe where the brain does mathematical calculations this part of the brain is making up for the other part that was damaged one thing is true fractal man doesn't do karaoke anymore </div>
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the music meant a common superpower that develops after an accident is immediately becoming a musical genius Lachlan Connors was more into sports than music until repeated concussions while playing lacrosse led him to quitting contact sports his injuries had led to epilepsy he was having regular seizures however Lockland seizures led to a sudden interest in music very quickly he taught himself how to play 13 instruments including piano guitar and harmonica - an exceptional standard likewise Derek Amato his music super powers came when he accidentally dived headfirst into the shallow end of a pole he received a massive concussion and a 35% loss of hearing however he could also suddenly play piano to a high standard explaining that he could suddenly see black and white squares in his head telling him what notes to play he also taught himself to play seven other instruments finally Toni Sakura his powers were given to him when he was struck by lightning while at a payphone talking to his mother he technically died but was revived while he was recovering he was overcome by an urge to play the piano something he had never done before immediately he started playing like a master playing along to the sounds in his head he named his first piece the Lightning sonata </div>
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Daniel Kish before he was a year old Daniel Kish had to have both of his eyes removed he was born with an aggressive form of retinal cancer called retinoblastoma almost straightaway he developed a way of navigating around his environment he made a clicking noise with his tongue and by listening to how the echoes of the click bounced off the surface he could determine his way around Daniel could even tell what was in his way by listening to the sound of the echo cars have a metallic echo trees a hard echo Daniel was so adept at this technique he eventually was able to ride a bike without stabilizers and travel the world without assistance the technique is called echolocation and is the same method that enables bats to fly in the dark it's no surprise Daniel's friends call him Batman Ben Underwood was another pioneer of this technique achieving fame through the TV show 20/20 medical mysteries he was able to ride a bike play basketball and rollerblade using echolocation Ben sadly died at the age of 16 in 2009 </div>
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Franco Magnani Franco magnani was a cook and a woodworker who emigrated from Italy to San Francisco in the 1960s soon after arriving he came down with a fever that made him delirious and caused him to have seizures while recovering Franco began to have extremely vivid dreams about his childhood home in Ponte toh Italy even though he hadn't been to ponte dough in 30 years these dreams were so real he could recall everything in exact detail It was as if memories that were buried in his brain had been rediscovered also despite never picking up a paintbrush in his life Franco was overcome with the urge to paint these memories of ponte dough he painted these scenes from memory which as you can see are identical to the corresponding seen in pandita the photo is on the left the painting is on the right Franco became obsessed with painting and his work ended up being displayed in galleries around the world doctors can't explain how Franco became the memory painting man but it have been temporal lobe epilepsy known to create obsessive personalities </div>
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Orlando Serrell on August 17th 1979 ten-year-old Orlando Serrell was playing baseball with his friends when he hit on the side of the head with a ball he carried on playing not thinking much of it but suffered from recurring headaches for days afterwards once the headaches subsided Orlando found that he could remember what day of the week any date fell on so if you asked him what day of the week was Christmas Eve in 1977 Orlando can tell you straight away it was a Saturday he had gained a superpower known as calendar calculation he didn't memorize calendars or develop a system to work out the days he just knew for most days he could also tell you what the weather was like and what he did that day aside from his impressive yet pointless superpower Orlando is in his own words a pretty average guy </div>
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Ken Walters in 1986 Ken Walters from Lancashire in England was in an accident involving a forklift truck breaking his back soon after that he suffered two heart attacks in 2005 he had a stroke while recovering in the hospital Ken try to write a letter to his nurse but instead found himself doodling on the paper he'd never doodles before he'd never been into drawing at all it seemed that Ken's doodles were very good he had a talent for art doctors said this is a result of the stroke that his brain had rewired itself to avoid the areas affected by the stroke and that it would be temporary however they persisted and Ken carried on doodling this time on a computer can begin creating digital art in the popular virtual world Second Life people started buying this art from virtual galleries and Ken's pictures through the attention of EA Games who hired can to draw monsters for their games so far the duelers talent has not subsided do you believe any of these events have you gained any superpowers and curious ways I'd be interested to know let me know down below also if you enjoyed this</div>
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the bottle and coin trick. This is one of the simplest and easiest tricks to prepare for. All you need is an empty bottle, some coins, like some quarters, and a banknote, all of which you should already have on you. To set this up, simply place the banknote on top of the bottle and hold it there by piling a few quarters on top of it. Three or four should do it. Now ask your friends, or whomever you're attempting to get a free drink out of, to remove the banknote without touching the coins or making the coins drop to the floor. Usually, they will just try to tug it, and inevitably fail continuously. But, that's because hey don't know the trick. When you feel like it's time to show them how to do it, simply lick your finger, and quickly snap it down across the bill. The moisture on your finger will grab the bill and pull it out from under the change, leaving it right where it was. This will take some practice on your part. So put some time in before you try it out in public. The same trick can also be done with a business card and a single penny positioned on top of it above the hole of the bottle. All you gotta do is flick the business card. It will fly away from the bottle, and drop the penny directly down the mouth and neck of the bottle. You're already on your way to impressing everyone. So keep that bottle handy.</div>
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balancing trick. Grab an empty glass and challenge your friends to place a credit card on the rim of the glass whilst balancing a coin on one end of the card. It's impossible, and they'll fail every time, because they don't know this trick. All you need to do is place as much liquid in the glass as possible, and then place the card on the rim. This time, the water tension will be enough to prevent the card from topping over as you place the coin on the other end.</div>
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note under the bottle trick. This one is almost always guaranteed to confuse someone. So grab a bottle and a banknote. To set up, lay the note down on the table, and then place a bottle upside down on the top of the note. Now, the challenge is to get the note out from under the bottle without touching the bottle or knocking it over. Try as they might, they aren't going to be able to get it out from under there. Unless they know what you know, which is that pulling the bill is always going to knock it over, but rolling it won't. Careful and steady hands are needed, so practice this one at home a bit first. If you start from the sides of the bill, and roll it forwards until you reach the neck, when you slowly pull the bill towards you to continue rolling, the bill should easily slide right out from under it. Again, practice makes perfect with this one.</div>
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pickup glass trick. This is a relatively simple trick to perform and only needs a glass of any sort and two coins. After balancing the coins on opposite sides of the rim, challenge your friends to lift the glass by only using two fingers, and to not drop the coins. Most people won't be able to do this. All you have to do, is quickly bring your fingers down on the coins, flattening them to the sides of the glass. You can then lift up the glass by holding the coins. Another version of this trick involves asking your friends to remove the coins from the glass, without dropping them in the glass or on the floor, using only your thumb and index finger. Again, most people will not be able to think of a solution, and even if they manage the first bit, they'll probably still have trouble. Proceed the same way, as if you were to pick up the glass, as described previously, but then pinch your fingers together and slide both coins to one side of the glass. Once the coins are almost touching, bring them up to the rim of the glass. Now you'll have to flip one over the edge and inside the glass to complete this trick. So be careful not to drop it. But once you've got the coin inside, and the other one on the outside, it's just a simple matter of pulling up. And you've completed the trick.</div>
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shot glass switch. For this one, you'll need two shot glasses and a playing card or business card. One shot glass filled to the brim with water, and another with whiskey or rum. Challenge your friends to move the whiskey into the water glass, and vice versa, without spilling any. They cannot pour it into another glass, or take it to their mouth and spit it back into the empty glass. After thinking it over for some time, they will inevitably give up. This is when you produce the card and place it on top of the water glass. Now, simply turn it upside down and place it on top of the whiskey. What you now have to do is ever-so-slightly move the card until it just barely reaches the edge of two glasses, which should be directly on top of one another. Moving the card just a bit more, creates a minor break in the seal. However, since the water is heavier than whiskey, the water will slowly drain into the bottom glass and in turn, push the whiskey into the top glass. It will take a few moments, so you've got time to take the money you bet your friend and watch their stunned expressions.</div>
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the race. This trick is designed to score you free drinks. It's also sneaky rather than fancy. So, here's what you'll need. Grab two pints of beer and two shots. Also, you'll need someone to race. You tell your opponent how much you love beer, and that you're real quick at drinking beer. So quick in fact, that you're sure you can drink two pints before they can drink two shots. They'll likely laugh at you and take that bet. This is the first step. You've got them interested, and they're sure you're going to lose. Then you hit them with the rules. You want to lay out the rules slowly and naturally, so they don't realize you're tricking them. First, agree to no touching of the other person. Second, no touching the other glasses. Third, no double-fisting, you have to use one hand. Your opponent should easily agree to these rules. Then you ask them for a bit of a headstart. Ask them if you can start drinking your beer first, and that they can start their first shot once your glass hits the table. They should take the bait. This is when you drink your pint. You don't have to race it through though, but get it down fairly quickly. They should be watching you and maybe even laughing at how long it's taking. They won't see this coming however. 'Cause when you're about done, remind them that they have to wait for the glass to come down, and then the real race starts. That's when you turn you glass upside down and place it over your opponent's shots. Then tell them, "You can't touch my glasses. And I can't touch yours."You can take all the time you want with the other beer now, because they can't get at the second shot. It's sneaky, but it's funny when you can pull it off.</div>
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cutting limes with cigarettes. For this trick, you're going to need a lighter or matches, an everyday lime, and a cigarette. However you go about explaining the situation to your friends, just explain that they need to cut this lime with a cigarette. Surely, they aren't going to have any idea about how to actually do this, but it's quite simple actually. So, here's how it's done. First, you need to take a cigarette and light its filter on fire. Let it burn for a few seconds, then squeeze it out, pinching down the end. Squeeze it as tightly as possible, and get it as flat as you can. If you've done it right, the fiberglass filter will now be quite sharp and pointed. Give the cigarette filter a swing at the lime and you should be able to cut right through the skin. That's how you cute a lime with a cigarette.</div>
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alternating shots. For this trick, you need six shot glasses, three of them full. You arrange three empty glasses in a line followed by three full shots. Then you tell your friends that they can only move one shot and it needs to make the whole line of shots alternate. Empty, full, empty, et cetera. They'll think about it, but ultimately they shouldn't be able to figure it out. When they ask you how it's done, simply grab the second full shot glass and pour it into the second empty glass. You've only moved one shot glass and now everything alternates.</div>
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drinking out of a closed bottle. This cleverly-worded trick, only requires a closed wine bottle and a nearby shot of any liquid. All you have to do is tell someone that you can drink out of this bottle without opening it. That means without removing the cork or breaking the glass. Thinking conventionally, it is impossible. But if you think out of the box, it is not. Sure enough, they'll call you a complete fool for even trying. And when they laugh and you go ahead and try it, you simply turn the bottle upside down where you find the punt. Pour some liquid into the punt and drink it. What you've just done is drank a shot from a still-closed bottle.</div>
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beer into glass trick. You'll need a fresh beer, a glass, and a bendy straw for this one. Tell your friends that you can move the beer from the bottle into the glass without pouring it. Confused, they'll ask you how it's even possible? That's when you put the straw into the bottle, put your mouth around the top and blow. Make sure you've got the glass under the bendy part of the straw, because the beer is going to be a fountain from there. You've just transferred your beer into a glass without even pouring it. Some of these take a little more practice and effort than others. But one thing this guarantees, is that you'll have a new trick up your sleeve for the next night out you have. So have fun, and if you learnt something new from this</div>
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will sighs coin matrix the coin matrix is a trick every close-up magician knows cards cover coins which teleport one by one all it takes is dexterity and misdirection we'll size trick is similar but more impressive and when presented on America's Got Talent he went viral Mel B's jaw dropped Heidi looked like she'd been kicked in the face and we actually saw Simon Cowell crack a smile it started as expected but turned into something completely unbelievable we'll stop concealing the magic and the coins teleported out in the open culminating in a transformation into red rose petals the trick was accomplished not with feats of dexterity but engineering that table is the real star here the area under each card contains a mechanism to either reveal or hide the coins his foot operated a disguised foot pedal which activated the switches there were four separate mechanisms for the rose petals in the middle of the table the engineering is brilliant and the trick itself does indeed look very clean maybe a little too clean like why can't we see the mechanisms that work when slowing down and inspecting the video Captain disillusion showed that since some of the coins remained stationary when they should have moved with the rest of the video it was clearly edited after the performance the producer saw some imperfections that the live audience missed they went in and digitally cleaned it up to hide the mechanisms and make it look even more impressive it's not difficult to believe after all broadcasting a seemingly impossible magic trick will only make the show more popular and earn them more money </div>
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mint through jaw during an episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks magician panelists dynamo is asked for an impromptu magic trick he smiles and offers some mints to the other panelists and it's not just a warm gesture but the first step in a trick once they've verified the mints are real he puts one in his mouth casually takes off his necklace the necklace seemingly penetrates his skin and when he rips the necklace back through his neck it's threaded through the mint no the necklace isn't gimmicked and yes that is a real mint the secret is in what he did to his neck before the show started he applied rubber cement a magician's best friend to his neck when the necklace pressed against it his neck folded sticking to itself as he grabbed the necklace to pull it off he threaded it through the mint hidden in his hand after he ripped the necklace off his neck he released the mint from his hand and it slid down the chain making it look like it had been pulled out from his neck if you're inclined to mess with your friends and scare your family you can do the same thing at home with some string and a glue stick </div>
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a gt's snowman trick Matt Franco updated an old favorite on America's Got Talent he presents a large box and gift wrapping making sure not to reveal what's inside until the end as he displays a large book it's clearly shown that each page has something different on it snowmen and costume pieces Matt flips through the book using the judges as participants they choose a separate head torso and bottom costume everything is seemingly decided at random he then reveals the box which contains a snowman dressed exactly the way in which the judge is specified this is accomplished through the Svengali phenomenon every other page in the Snowman book is identical they're also cut slightly shorter the shorter cut ensures that when you rifle through the pages they always fall to pages at a time the result is just as good as magic if the pages drop one way they all appear different if they drop in the opposite direction you can force a page even though it appears to be random </div>
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Penn & Teller's bullet catch it goes like this two volunteers signed two bullets before Penn & Teller fire them at each other's mouths the bullet usually passes through a piece of paper or a glass pane to prove the bullets really left the guns they finally reveal the other sign bullet in their mouth but if you've got a keen eye you can spot how they do it it involves a mixture of sleight of hand clever props and backstage help the audience members first signed the tips of the bullets and then both Penn & Teller place the bullets on their hand to get a close-up for the camera this is where the trickery begins as they use sleight of hand to pocket the real bullet and then switch it with a blank or wax bullet diverts the audience's attention to selecting a colored pen to sign the case then as the audience members signed the case of the fake bullet Penn & Teller cover the tip of the bullet with their fingers because seeing another bullet at the tip would really give the trick away the real sign bullet inside their jacket pocket is then reclaimed by an assistant behind the stage and planted inside the other magician's bulletproof vest which conveniently backed onto the wall while they fumbled around putting their masks on this allows Penn & Teller to mount the signed bullet while the vest slides over their head when fired either the wax has enough durability to break the glass or specifically designed transparent squibs are used to put holes through the glass so all in all it's a very well coordinated trick </div>
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David Blaine's coffee coin trick you've heard of turning milk into cheese and surely heard of turning water into wine but what about turning coffee into coins this isn't some clever metaphor we're talking about David Blaine's TV special where he approaches a homeless man takes his coffee and turns it into a cup of coins it's kind and visual but how is it accomplished the cup has a false bottom which hides a sponge David Blaine sticks his finger through a hole at the bottom of the cup lifting the false bottom and allowing the sponge to absorb the coffee the coins were there the entire time but were only revealed when the coffee drained but YouTube video why is a homeless man walking around with a gimmick coffee cup well it's not too difficult to imagine a member of the filming crew approaching the man earlier on and giving him the cup he would have just assumed it as a genuinely nice gesture from a random member of the public they could have also given it in exchange for him signing a release to appear on television </div>
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pin Dragon's metamorphosis the husband-and-wife team of Jonathan and Charlotte Pendragon aren't just magicians they're world record holders they made the Guinness Book of World Records under the entry fastest transformation illusion with their most famous trick metamorphosis the trick happened so fast and so visually that it's the closest thing to real magic you might have ever seen Jonathan steps into a bag which is tied at the top to prevent escape the box is locked shut eventually Charlotte steps on top of the box and lifts a cloth in the blink of an eye the cloth drops to reveal Jonathan's standing in her place he opens the box to find his wife now in the bag the Mathemagician does his best to debunk this one but this time he's actually missed the mark his entire setup is different the pin dragons don't use extra assistance they stand on top of the box rather than behind it and they take a fraction of the time to complete the trick however he did reveal one piece of the puzzle the bag contains a zipper which allows for escape even though the top is tied so how did they accomplish the rest of this award-winning metamorphosis in the Pendragon version after Jonathan releases himself from the gimmick bag he escapes the box through a false back and remains hidden there when Charlotte lifts the cloth he quickly climbs behind her and she jumps down it seems too fast for a human to accomplish but that's explained if you take a look into their background you see they're both trained gymnast in addition Charlotte's a dancer and former bodybuilder and Jonathan has experience as a springboard diver and martial arts expert the pin dragons bodies are fine oiled machines they each possess both the skill and raw physicality to pull off a switch this fast </div>
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free bus ride Pepsi hired British magician dynamo to perform a public stunt in London to get attention he levitates up to a bus holds the top and remains floating in that impossible position as he rides around London right in front of a Pepsi ad first things first the bus driver and passengers are all in on it at the end of the video when he levitates down the bus is completely empty with no spectators no they didn't just get off the bus because that bus route was bogus the London Transport website doesn't list a normal schedule for a 5:43 bus there's a holiday schedule but the route listed wouldn't drive the bus past Big Ben like we see in the video secondly we never see him move the arm attached to the bus a German magician went on the record saying he does a very similar trick where the arm is fake it's actually a metal pole disguised by a latex arm this pole is secured to the bus and holds the harness he wears under his clothes his real arm is just tucked by a side in the levitation part well would the suspicious way it was edited that could have been achieved by a number of ways from editing tricks to a lifting system of some sort hidden from view </div>
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zigzag girl the trick goes like this a woman steps into an upright cabinet sticking various body parts through holes the magician puts sturdy metal blades the box seemingly cutting her in three he then pushes the middle segment to the side to prove this isn't just a trick the box usually has an illustration or silhouette of a woman painted on which emphasizes how impossible this really is this painting is actually the first part of the illusion obviously there's no requirement for the girl to stand in that exact position depicted and she doesn't as the blades are inserted into the box she turns her flexible body to the side to make it easier for her to make the squeeze the blades are more narrow than they appear the full width handles obscure the actual size of the blades when the magician pushes the middle segment of the cabinet to the side she doesn't have to do much at all just move her hand along for the ride </div>
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the death saw David Copperfield shows border on art and his tricks defined the generation of magicians one of his most visually stunning feats was the death saw in the routine and escape tricks seemingly fails and a giant rotary blade cuts him in half his assistants separate the severed halves of his body before he spins back time restores and escapes the secret to this trick and many others like it are explained by the design of those big boxes and tables stage magicians use the bottoms are deeper than they look allowing for secret compartments add the liberal use of stretchable spandex and you can easily make a Magician's apprentice disappear Copperfield is simply hiding half of his body bent over in a slightly awkward position with his legs in front of him while using somebody else to act as his legs the whole shenanigans beforehand with the black box locked over him allowed both David and his assistant to contort into this position before the blade cut him in half </div>
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regurgitating frogs recently David Blaine appeared on The Tonight Show and explained a rather strange story a hundred years ago there's a guy that converted his stomach into an aquarium where he could store live creatures and then he could bring them up at will he then down some water and regurgitated a live frog after the trick he swallowed the frog again he's done this before summoning multiple frogs in a row to prove the creatures weren't just hidden in his mouth the whole time so how did he do it well the secret is there's really no secret he really does swallowed the frogs but he's learned the art of regurgitation regurgitation tricks like this are nothing new they all stem from water spouting that dates back to at least the 1600s it involves drinking as much water as possible and spouting it out in controlled streams of water Haji Ali pushed the trick further by drinking kerosene after water so the kerosene would sit on top of the water in his stomach this would allow him to light the fire and then put it out with the water the same method is applied to regurgitating animals which is also rarely performed Blaine referred to the magician Mac Norton who was known as the human aquarium before he performed his trick Mac was known to bring up frogs and goldfish one by one but the prospect of miss counting and having to digest a live animal is the real risk these magicians have to take and that's why David Blaine can perform this trick while other magicians can he's fearless and when he decides to do something with his body he will he was even the first person since Haji Ali to perform the kerosene trick as he did in 2013 on Jimmy Kimmel show proving he had already mastered controlled regurgitation but it's a lot harder to swallow frogs than liquid as our gag reflexes pushes them back towards the mouth to overcome this Blaine had to learn to control his gag reflex through lots of practice like sword swallowers due to practice this magicians have been known to swallow a potato attached to string allowing them to pull up on the potato to learn how to control the stomach muscles necessary to push objects to the mouth but how does the Frog live in his stomach it's full of acid after all well either blame diluted the contents of the stomach with water beforehand or he kept the frog in his esophagus spending months or years to learn a trick like this is what it takes to be the best like David Blaine which trick do you think is the greatest and what other tricks should I reveal next let me know in the comments section down below.</div>
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you guys still don't get it it's amazing there's like 50 people here who actually like this and the rest of you are just standing here because there's nothing else to do over judge the screw performer got a Walmart again I don't need anything right now all right so this is something that I'm going to have to show it this is the most difficult thing I've ever learned I'm going to juggle these five flaming car trips he's taken me years to learn I'm a World Championship juggler and he's have water World Championship title with juggling and that's about the response and I'm used to where I tell like I would have left by now if I wasn't having fun I would agree I'm gonna go do something good okay my name is Sam I'm a professional comedian I travel all across the planet doing this hoping I can make people laugh </div>
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seriously put aside all your differences we're all the same I'm the same as all of you we're all people that's all I see what I do there having said if you want to get political if you're a liberal support my show I'm an artist I'm also a small business </div>
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I love it so now because if I tell hunger for white people I'm NATIVE some of them will come up afterwards okay I'm Cherokee my grandma was born in a cheap all right I'm gonna have the show with this five torches most difficult thing I've ever learned like I said nobody paid me to come back enough are gonna do this I came all the way here to perform because I wanted to be fun and I wanted to be something I'd be memorable for people so if you guys had fun if you laughed </div>
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please support my show this is I make a living you don't have to leave a lot at the end I'll be holding a small bag I'll let you guys buy a ticket and you decide what you pay for the ticket at the very end unlike any other show anyway so if you like this come up at the end you don't have to leave a lot hundred dollars is fine it's fine if you don't leave that much she said if I don't make it I'm going to stay here and I'm going to marry one of your daughters for your sons </div>
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you just live in a very public place like literally it happens all the time it's perfectly fine okay if you did up but you let me ten bucks plus the cost of a movie ticket for one person that comes me have fun dealing there twenty I can do the show without you know please support my family do what I love please let me shake your hands deal even twenty six really you guys are the people are doing the show for you help everybody be able to enjoy it and if anybody here leaves a fifty I know you can afford a hundred step it up damn alright five torches most dangerous thing I've ever learned everybody let's give me your energy hands in the air Hey look we're starting a cult we underwent a my name is Sam everybody what's my name I think I just walk off this is what I do for a living like then just together everybody we're going to cop with me for watching my name is Sam I hope you had fun </div>
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I'm going to give you the fire you're gonna hold it like this hold it on the inner with both hands keep it right up there don't put it down for any reason we got to make sure we get the money I can see the wall I wanna get to know you both hands like I don't care if you get arrested I guess </div>
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I get to know Jonathan's he doesn't want me to search here Jonathan came all the way from North Dakota it also says here Jonathan at brown Anna I was stealing nothing and he's like I got kids we know you got kids and there's no money </div>
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thank you please go home I do this show because I like it because I want to be fun for people it's only fun if you guys like are willing to play along tops right that's how it feels good all like you so I'm doing my best up there I've been doing this for over 10 years trying to laugh and like thank you so laughs and stuff like that and I want you guys to have fun but I'm not going to like sell my soul to do it right so I'm gonna in this show my favorite tricks if you guys like it let me know you like it but if you do like it and you do respect any of this you would like to see more </div>
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you guys still don't get it it's amazing there's like 50 people here who actually like this and the rest of you are just standing here because there's nothing else to do over judge the screw performer got a Walmart again I don't need anything right now all right so this is something that I'm going to have to show it this is the most </div>
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difficult thing I've ever learned I'm going to juggle these five flaming car trips he's taken me years to learn I'm a World Championship juggler and he's have water World Championship title with juggling and that's about the response and I'm used to where I tell like I would have left by now if I wasn't having fun I would agree I'm gonna go do something good okay my name is Sam I'm a professional comedian I travel all across the planet doing this hoping I can make people laugh </div>
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I want make sure to be a place for people from all walks of life to come together and we can all have fun have fun it kind of sucks with that but there's a lot of terrible stuff in the world you gotta laugh at some of it alright </div>
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I'm from Nevada I grew up in a reservation about as high you very proud of my heritage as a native before I want to take a moment to welcome all of you into our land and I see you guys have already nothing yeah everybody guess that I was Native I've got made fun about my whole life like you guys right now you're like I think he's a Jewish Mexican that's cool I got picked on my whole life as a cantor is terrible when I was a kid on the rez ever to make fun of me like his mom's white get him I go to the town they're like these bro get them but I'll change though when I turned 13 I think everybody everybody made fun of me they thought I was Japanese </div>
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I love it so now because if I tell hunger for white people I'm NATIVE some of them will come up afterwards okay I'm Cherokee my grandma was born in a cheap all right I'm gonna have the show with this five torches most difficult thing I've ever learned like I said nobody paid me to come back enough are gonna do this I came all the way here to perform because I wanted to be fun and I wanted to be something I'd be memorable for people so if you guys had fun if you laughed </div>
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please support my show this is I make a living you don't have to leave a lot at the end I'll be holding a small bag I'll let you guys buy a ticket and you decide what you pay for the ticket at the very end unlike any other show anyway so if you like this come up at the end you don't have to leave a lot hundred dollars is fine it's fine if you don't leave that much she said if I don't make it I'm going to stay here and I'm going to marry one of your daughters for your sons c you just live in a very public place like literally it happens all the time it's perfectly fine okay if you did up but you let me ten bucks plus the cost of a movie ticket for one person that comes me have fun dealing there twenty I can do the show without you know please support my family do what I love please let me shake your hands deal even twenty six really you guys are the people are doing the show for you help everybody be able to enjoy it and if anybody here leaves a fifty I know you can afford a hundred step it up damn alright five torches most dangerous thing I've ever learned everybody let's give me your energy hands in the air Hey look we're starting a cult we underwent a my name is Sam everybody what's my name I think I just walk off this is what I do for a living like then just together everybody we're going to cop with me for watching my name is Sam I hope you had fun</div>
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this Katya ways that masters and ruin to our special coverage of the major league baseball off on MLB Network I'll be joined in a moment by Mark DeRosa dan please act but first let's get you look at this year's American and National League all-stars as voted on by you the fans put on by the fans of the past because we took last year because they can't fucking update shit we're having problems these are the correct story finish though at least water. </div>
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briefly now we'll look at the two men named by their to get the ball here to begin this all-star game [Applause] the visitors starting lineup take on him against one of the best starters in the game gonna look at this lineup they're gonna have to work the count that's the key to success right here they've combined a way to drive this guy's pitch count up </div>
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and get the job of starting pitcher what's your take on and Dan Max Scherzer Oh chief that's not agent 99 this is best pitchers in the game of baseball Plus for the mid-nineties fastball and a great changeup - he brings his a game it's light what is agent all right so here's how the National League all-stars line up they just went towards that poser </div>
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this guy doesn't get it because he does it the right way it's not flashy the ability to backhand come across the bag on the double play things on behave I'll get it walk it really mentally sound and can handle the bat as well here's Mookie bench will get us started in this one um well if I was to get that shit ready cuz yeah yeah alright let's go to your start for you and I was even accurate now nealy well losing him </div>
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Rony of uh just put hand in so the only one that's a realistic hand I'll go check my game no David my name is incorrect as well lovely in the Bosma the fall and last year's impossible to pull off last year's all-star cake I'm not doing that show again he did that last year did we yeah even its things that one gu / </div>
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there's a plan bullshit with this moment now let's have a look at the home team starting lineup mark what do you have on this creep in front of the home tonight well Maddie just lineups gonna have to finally get this picture on top of there get into the book that's probably that's this guy settle in go breeze through seven strong one ball a ball and two strikes now the one two is a way but a Miss he struck him out with that here's a glance at the starting lineup for the home squad batting what's the key for a fair victory tonight zero Matty I love the way this lineup is constructed talking to the manager into the game he focused on the fact that they have a pastor Vuitton mentality everything's flowing for this lineup chance to score a lot of runs back up the middle and infield they said booth first and hustling for second he hit the corner and prize for third and he will make it all the way to third now is that mistake proves a costly one indeed you only see [Applause] the plate the titular back to the battery </div>
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nothing special Ubisoft is the first gaming company to implement a new band system in which bands are given to individuals that use slurs and hate speech bands will be one day then one week then two weeks then perronnette band is to start with realistic see yeah you do have a play from sales so they are if the system is waters are gonna break down I know are shallow sooner his first opportunity in this room oh I know what you actually trying to say with this thing Oh Barnabas a serene five it's like say lasses target to one on its way in on the second test that finds its way through for a base </div>
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and the American Lois nothing you know there's Luke II bet he's smelly ending and then they're down six in the early goings worse do they need to do to her but now the Vikings gets the best more diverse the wall but I think because of the burn area they bond and be patient when you're down by six plus eight runners are the key to getting back into this one well the 16 C be a one-seat focus on better what do you or the Vikings could be the loss of falcons miraculously with a game when TV just to see once you got wrong do run it down here is it's 2-1 in 2000 offer that debt breaking ball below the zone and that's a tough one to spit on but the key is recognizing it coming out of the pitchers and earlier and making sure </div>
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well fans love a lot of offense and that's what they're getting here Dan you said it Maddie clear that right Andy hit this game between the two as a pitcher this is a little painful for me to watch mark sinker misses 2 and 2 smoke at second with two down get back toward the mouth Cozart hazard get'em you don't give us a picture that could be so question your body of the right way make quality pitches and that five that that turned into an infield single yeah at the end of the day he's smiling that made her smile I've brought it right there he has no business the lineout bars if thinking one rose here's a second runner around 3rd he will score as they close the gap is hungry now absolutely sports my picture came this would be awesome shows racking up and as you see it came off the bat to take it out I'll tell you at least some wearing a ball up not in now Jonathan's scope these sliders in for a strike now runs already home here what do you sure </div>
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and a half-hearted swing lures them up inside for the third strike and the inning is over so three runs on four hits no errors and a man left on the last trip to the plate they're not helping their fucking point come back back if they had an argument about that like oh you are this is not fucking helping their fucking heads making the case look worse and if I bring something up I'm gonna like a douche bag if I bring someone home to talk to go back in the history thanks dear Madras Congress you sound mad this time so the leadoff hitter reaches base safely and now it's the run producing part of but why nice to just play my family aren't that </div>
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third with no out that's lever to swing in the eyes of the Empire and that'll be the first out of the embattled earlier in carries a trooper to line no contact there and it's one into two it found the third [Applause] so our dad in missed he chased it first hockey action shipped me that time I love watching a picture that can run a good hard fastball in on a guy's hands and complete that's such a knob kitchen new ivory but listen look at masks oh they're consistently find you're gonna have a lot of success as a pitcher the one to the trampling but fouled down the right side yank pow right Harvey here's another one to hit on the ground yeah </div>
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it's just your classic rivey top predator man [Applause] picks up an RBI hard hit and a well-deserved run batted in I want the second baseman to go but face I knocked over than the first baseman side digging in to try it again Salazar doubled earlier in the game right to to this point 3 and 1 the count down 8 runs on 12 hits and no errors on and they managed to </div>
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particular offense pathogen be set and the 2 1 pitch swinging under that I've okay that one's up no no it's never get to you he's been Omnitrix I can take a joke about sure yeah yeah yeah priestess comes out they never expected sets up today and that's a swinging strike three in the dirt milena Gilbert through the Thursday through the first yeah I know I know that's but oh okay I just want to plug this fly out here in a single forum so far one one and also progress helps in the militias foul off to the right side </div>
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so we're ready for another chance although you'd like the other number six overall out of North Carolina in 2006 the six foot six inch left the end nearly got away that's wall four Wow all I know is these guys don't need anymore leave it or not that's our first walk they've got our get the tongs our is the hard way see if they can add to it here winds up being a runner I who gets lazy men on while marketer speaking Italian ha ha 9 2 3 once Starbucks is gonna open the first science almost Stewart won there too with a double on its line buzz barn-like silent wish for the deputy oh okay so it's gonna open up a store that's only for deaf people that's interesting it sure is it used to be a freak out safety balls Bowie balls every time dammit now the one in one pitch strike two swinging a good fastball to back them off it's a changeup like you wait for it glad you know so your police squared that one up just a little late so if I get if you get ten drawings you'll be Oh </div>
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now another one - yes swinging of all sliced foul into the seats down the left gets worse nothing with your points five hours for me not you jumped out to an early sorry excellent laughs here tonight are you rushing to okay the roll-ups ele do it working Phoenix all right well let's hope they don't fuck up so Missouri corpo tragically oh I didn't get them what happened the driver didn't in the mellah days that they publish yeah we raised before going on okay there was a question earlier 70 people </div>
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once were hospitalized Oh some people got out in time but terribly the driver died the cats respond well they didn't get the notification that's suppose get behind camera get some pizza for fans and proceed to call the pastor and their huts in this video make it look like he's a troll and really connect it was just Michael he was challenged on Twitch that's a pretty much super fake me I'm ready joke so the gap is his real number just say hi to Michael you know he's a fan </div>
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yeah so Michael called his guy and makes cuts in the vo to make it look like then he's a troll when he wasn't a troll he was just trying to say hi you cut the parts out way to be nice and this first Michael Chan was fake myra league baseball team becomes the first team m to play in Scottish kilt okay that sounds entertaining for visually </div>
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Largest New Jersey state lottery history since we first started selling tickets in 1971 everyone it is now my pleasure to introduce the winner from burning in Jersey mr. Richard okay um so the only time when I ask is my family I won't discuss today that's off-limits but everything else I'll talk about I have converted Michigan and moved here at the end of July for a job opportunity really great company to be well like I won a million dollars I can't believe it I was excited you know life-changing money I want to wear look at that one </div>
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at a very basic level bitcoin is just a digital file or ledger that contains names and balances and people exchanged money by changing this file when Bob sells Carol a lawnmower for 5.2 bitcoins Bob's balance goes up by 5.2 and Carol's down by 5.2 there's no gold or government-issued money backing these numbers Bob is only willing to trade his real-life lawnmower for a higher number in this digital file because he is faith that other people</div>
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will also trust the system so who maintains this ledger and make sure no one cheats when goal of Bitcoin is to avoid any centralized control so every participant maintains their own copy of the ledger one surprising consequence of this is that everyone can see everyone else's balances although the real system only uses account numbers and not names so there's some level of anonymity if everyone maintains their own ledger how are all the Ledger's kept in sync as money is transferred at a basic level when you want to send money you simply tell everyone else by broadcasting a message with your account number the</div>
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created it comes along with a private key mathematically linked to that account number if you've heard of a Bitcoin wallet these keys are what it holds and are what allow you to create signatures to create a signature a private key and the text from a transaction are fed into a special cryptographic function another function allows other people to check the signature making sure it was created by the account owner and that it applies to that specific transaction unlike the handwritten version these signatures can't be copied and reused in the future as they're unique to each transaction while the mathematical signatures prove who sent a transaction they can't prove when it was sent and this turns out to be problematic in our traditional banking system if Alice wrote two checks </div>
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this with their hands if the alternative was wearing a stupid robot on their face all day the point is it is dangerous to make predictions about where tech is going so that said tonight we're going to talk about crypto currencies everything you don't understand about money combined with everything you don't understand about computers the main currency you've probably heard about is Bitcoin it's been all over the news because last year its value exploded from around $1,000 at the beginning of the year to 9,000 by November to nearly 20,000 by December Bitcoin became such a hot topic that paparazzi started asking celebrities about it what Michael Keaton leaving a restaurant hey would you recommend buying Bitcoin you know what's funny<br />
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I was just I got two different one guy said yeah you probably want to another friend of I said not like it's a bad thing they just don't know where it's gonna go I'm gonna say you do not expect conversations with paparazzi to be so nuanced hey cardi B what are your thoughts on the idea of universal basic income well it could go a long way to reducing inequality but I don't think the American people would support the tax increase necessary to fund it you can read all about it in my book card anomic s-- making Marnie Buddhist for a new American Century and this this was a traumatic shift it was just a few years ago you'd only hear about Bitcoin from that one guy in your office who wouldn't shut up about it let's call him<br />
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Dan and the reason that we're calling him Dan is that Dan is the exact guy in our office who's been annoying everybody with his you've got to get into Bitcoin shit for years this is why we hate dad it's honestly not the only reason but it's the easiest one to bring up right now the point is lately more and more normal people or non Dan's have been getting into crypto currencies partly because they may have seen stories like this Dylan Fein is living the dream had their Mitsubishi Eclipse my windows didn't work my AC didn't work right I had to open my doors just to get food at the drive-through everything changed when he met a friend who introduced him to Bitcoin I turned 350 dollars into 12,000 he became a millionaire at 24 all by investing in Bitcoin<br />
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I can literally put in a trade wait a few hours let the exchange rate fluctuate and I'm actually able to profit from the world's largest financial market in the world yes that man is apparently a millionaire now which is presumably why he's being interviewed on the most expensive outdoor swamp log in South Florida and despite the fact that Bitcoin has dropped by nearly half since the start of this year there is still a cryptocurrency fervour going on with people watching people like that guy get rich or hearing about others on reddit or Twitter and feeling driven to invest in crypto due to FOMO or fear of missing out now<br />
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FOMO is a term that many of you probably already knew about but I'm 40 years old British and oblivious or Theo BOE so so with all this excitement and curiosity we thought we'd try and explain a few things tonight Bitcoin blockchain the technology that allows it to exist crypto currencies in general and I'm going to be simplify things a lot here so let's start with Bitcoin which is a digital decentralized currency that basically means Bitcoin only exists as computer code and there is no bank or government creating or controlling it I know that this is already a little hard to understand so I'll let this man in a Bitcoin suit give you a surprisingly decent explanation<br />
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I'm a virtual currency worldwide you can send for little to no fees open source not controlled by any government corporation or individual financial freedom bro thanks bro that is a nuanced and accurate explanation of a complex topic delivered with the help of a man in a stupid costume and I would love to make fun of that except it's literally the entire business model of this fucking television show I know you you may at this point be thinking but wait how do you make money from Bitcoin to which Dan would say he just traded on exchanges like any other currency and if you then asked well<br />
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how does it have value Dan would reply how does any money have value man and then he'd say call me the brain for later because I just blew your fucking mind to which you'd say forget I asked Dan you're absolutely gross I hate you but the problem is Dan is kind of right like most currencies the fundamental reason the Bitcoin has value is because people agree that it has value in fact at the moment it's really being treated more like a speculative investment than a currency think of it like beanie babies why is this beanie baby currently being offered for sale on Etsy at a price of $15,000<br />
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well because its owner thinks that someone will pay that for it and you know what that owner was absolutely right I'm kidding I'm kidding I'm kidding I just bought this at a yard sale for ten thousand dollars I'm not a complete idiot look what well a Bitcoin is very interesting as a concept there are still some complicated technical issues to work out before it can become a useable everyday currency just look what happened in January hundreds are in Miami this week for a Bitcoin conference but it had to stop taking Bitcoin as a payment tickets last week suggesting there are still some kinks to work out with the currency it's true a Bitcoin conference stopped taking Bitcoin which is a red flag since that's the one place you'd think it would be accepted it's like when<br />
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I tried to pay for access to the Republican National Convention using Ronald Reagan's dusty skeleton boats everyone there agreed they had value there just wasn't an adequate network in place for the completion of our transaction but where the Bitcoin catches on or not many people believe that the really exciting thing about it is the potential of the innovative technology that it's built on and that's something called blockchain now normally if I wanted to send money to someone across the world a bank would need to verify that transaction and it could take days but with Bitcoin it is vastly faster because no Bank is involved and that is because blockchain technology allows a record or a ledger of every Bitcoin transaction ever made to be stored not in one place but across vast numbers of computers that is part of what people mean when they say bitcoin is decentralized and decentralization has a lot of theoretical advantages from speed to security the key point here is that this is a distributed ledger<br />
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there is no central server all the other legends that we have all banking Ledger's all company'll edges they all sit and reside inside that company which means they have one point of attack they can be hacked JP Morgan was was hacked by cyber thief's not so long ago Home Depot target we've had all these companies get hacked it's actually because there's one central repository of information the Bitcoin ledger resides on thousands of computers you can't hack that when you think about it that sounds great and because of the complicated process the network uses to verify records it is very secure now relax I'm not going to get into what that process is or how it works but I will share a really helpful really dumb metaphor for why it is safe the way<br />
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I like to think of it is that a blockchain is a highly processed thing sort of like a Chicken McNugget and if you wanted to hack it it'd be like turning a Chicken McNugget back in with chickens now someday someone will be able to do that but for now it's going to be tough hold on that is an absolutely horrible thought so why is that reporter so happy about the idea because if anyone ever figures out how to turn a Chicken McNugget back into a chicken that chicken is going to be fucked up he's going to spend the rest of his life suffering from PTSD and writing haunting poetry about the experience the things I saw buck-buck-buck or my body is whole but what of my soul so very basically that is the blockchain a database that is nearly impossible to hack or tamper with and which could possibly improve security efficiency and trust that is why big companies like Walmart IBM and JP Morgan haven't been experimenting with blockchain as a way to potentially share and secure data trend and translation transactions in a reliable easy to access way but it is still very early no one yet knows what blockchain is really capable of honestly<br />
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don't worry if you still don't understand it most people don't dan thinks he does and sure he'll throw around terms like supply chain management and it makes me want to punch him in his fucking face stop leaving printouts of reddit threads on my desk Dan you know I'm just throwing them away I am you the problem is there is no enough excitement around the very word blockchain that has become a magnet for investment reuters found that existing companies that merely added the word blockchain to their name saw their stock price on average increase more than three folds and one of them was particularly dumb Long Island iced tea renamed themselves long blockchain and guess what happens yeah their stock tripled Wow I'm just gonna say it to people who watch markets this seems so stupid it's not even worth reporting yeah well I don't care how stupid it is it clearly works that is why from now on this show will be called last bit tonight with blockchain even triple the ratings triple take that too so so now at this point you know basically what bitcoin is it's the future bro and why people are excited about blockchain<br />
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it won't let people chicken up your nugs but you might still be wondering well what about all the other cryptocurrencies that I've heard about okay well the key software to create a coin is open source meaning that just about anyone can create one so they have done that there are now over 1500 cryptocurrencies that you can buy with names like tits coin trump coin jesus coin insane coin electro neum wax particle deep onion snow vo pluton new bits and clams a list so insane that you can't tell which ones are real and which are made up because they're all real I didn't make any up I tried to come up with a dumb name than deep onion and it just can't be done and look not all of these coins are like Bitcoin just hoping to be the next currency often times startup companies will sell a coin to try and raise money as an alternative to issuing stock and sometimes those coins are meant as tokens to be used for services that the startup might eventually provide kind of like the tokens at Chucky Cheese only virtual and not redeemable at a rat based food emporium<br />
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it has become incredibly easy to issue coins so companies are doing it a lot initial coin offerings or icos raised over six billion dollars in 2017 with one company raising thirty five million in under 30 seconds normally when someone makes that much money that fast they did it by walking up to Bill O'Reilly sitting in silence for 26 seconds and then saying I recorded our phone calls but but the vast majority of people buying these coins are not paying much attention to the details of the startups they're attached to Theatre is responding to the huge fervor and there is a lot of it there was an entire online subculture of YouTube personalities and subreddits that have a cult-like devotion to buying these coins and if you stumble into one you'll find they have a whole shorthand one key term is Hodel based on a misspelling of holes this is a foundational principle don't sell when prices drop instead Hodel in the face of food fear uncertainty and doubt otherwise you might miss out when the coin moons or rockets up in value meaning you'll get rekt or lose money and never be able to afford the traders ultimate goal a Lambo which is short for Lamborghini<br />
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because of course it fucking is and if you are thinking that these terms belong in a rap video some crypto traders agree I ain't got time for the haters man we about to grow to a million tell me how you down with the cool and I've got to be honest there it is hard not to watch that and deep down one to be in the Hodel gang Hodel gang Hodel gang Hodel gang the point is many people are buying coins for no reason other than that other people are buying them and this mania has gotten to the point where even a coin started as a complete joke like dogecoin can rock it up in value it's named after an internet meme that was popular at the time a photo of shiba inu with colorful comments written in broken english around<br />
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it as you can see now dodge coins total market value has almost doubled since the start of this year to over two billion dollars there appear to be no obvious reasons for this yeah that's because there were no obvious reasons the whole point of the coin was to make fun of how people will buy anything and then people did exactly that that is no less ridiculous than if you started a joke band after the beatles called the waffles that was all st. Bernard's and they went on to have 40 number-one hits and one knighted by the Queen this is clearly ridiculous but for investors it's also potentially<br />
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dangerous because right now this market is essentially the Wild West and ripe for exploitation for instance it can be easy to manipulate the value of certain coins through things like pump and dump schemes regulators crackdown on those when they happen with stocks but they've been slower to act in the crypto market and that may explain where some groups have felt perfectly comfortable posting videos like this welcome to crypto calls a leading crypto currency pump room where we skyrocket the value of coins for six hours at a time for information about our weekly pumps including the the point we are pumping follow our telegram channel once released be sure to buy the coin as quickly as possible and everyone in the group has purchased the coin we will begin advertising it to other investors on social media during the final hour outside investors will fill our orders as they follow into the coin that we have increased in value 1000 to 2000 percent by the time<br />
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the 4-6 hours is up everyone in our group will have sold for props crypto calls together we profit holy shit it's kind of destabilizing just a brazen advertisement for something that you could have sworn was illegal it's like watching a commercial and hearing hey do you not have a child do you want somebody else's then kidnappers corner is the group for you here a kidnappers corner we take children that are not ours and bring them home with us it's easy-peasy toddler cz and look pumpkin dumps are just the beginning here there are dodgy companies everywhere some of which just look like old school frauds with some crypto sauce poured on top take a bit connect at one point it was worth around three billion dollars now big connect told investors that if they handed over money they could get returns as high as 40% a month and a rate of return that high may immediately seem suspicious to you but remember the market was soaring and picking X had excited investors like this guy who spoke at one of the conferences<br />
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let me tell you that we are really changing the world as we know it the world is not anymore the way used to be no no because I [Applause] yes the last time I saw someone that irrationally exuberant about a major commitment he was roughly seven years away from divorcing Katie Holmes yeah I don't blame him for anything there he's got a good head on his shoulders you stay clear Tommy stay clear my boy now that man that man's passion has become famous in the crypto world as well as his conviction that the business he become involved in was 100% legit this was gonna be a scam again then I said to myself in thousand Dossett ding you're right on her you know Taylor Oh women I'm all right always nagging you not to get sucked into get-rich-quick schemes leaving your marriage in the state of financial ruin now this will not surprise you big connect essentially collapsed regulators in two States issued cease and desist orders and bit connection reporters who've been labeled a Ponzi scheme by many in the industry something nobody had any reason to suspect from their promotional material except that it featured this actual illustration of their bonus system which seems to just be a picture of a man coming up with the idea for a pyramid scheme<br />
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I am NOT saying that every crypto poin is a scam just as I'm not saying that every blockchain company is bullshit what I am saying is in a speculative mania it can be incredibly hard to tell which companies are for real and if you want a good example of this just look at block one it's a start-up whose coin offering has so far raised one and a half billion dollars which will go toward developing a new type of software project called Yost now just for context it took Facebook seven years to raise a billion dollars from investors it took over five years Yost surpassed that in around nine months and that is despite the fact the Wall Street Journal described block one as a software startup that doesn't plan to sell any software and describes what it's certainly a digital token is having no purpose and while the company's sister Els will be the most powerful infrastructure for decentralized applications which they say will be usable it it hasn't lost yet so you sort of just have to take their word for it and<br />
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they do talk a big game everything will be better faster and cheaper everything will be more connected everything will be more trustworthy everything will be more secure everything that exists is no longer going to exist in the way that it does today everything in this world is about to get better oh please douche everything that exists will no longer exist in the way that it does how the fuck is Yoast going to change this iguana how is how is a OS going to both alter and improve Susan here Susan is enough now now that that sleepy creepy cowboy from the future is named Brock Pierce he began his career appearing in The Mighty Ducks and in gushes a gaseous commercial as a child who turns into a banana well that that banana then got involved with some very unsavory figures<br />
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just Google Brock Pierce scandal is all I'm saying there and then he teamed up with yokes to help promote their not yet a product he actually gave a speech at a tech conference last fall and I want you to remember as you listen to every word he's about to say the company he's describing has raised 1.5 billion dollars this is a chesty he'd ruin that I'm wearing which is the logo of Eos the chesty he'd rune is the sacred geometrical shape of the heart and if you're gonna bring a technology to the world that has the potential to change everything it's good when you do it with intention and that seems like a good place to begin this was my wedding at Burning Man last year an entirely unicorn wedding all the groomsmen wear the color of the rainbow plus pink all the bridesmaids the color of the rainbow plus pink and my best man was a woman dressed in black cracking away okay stop Brock stop because I was already out at Chester he drew and .<br />
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I simply refuse to believe that a man who has the time to organize a unicorn wedding at Burning Man should be trusted around one and a half billion dollars if someone turned up to mow your lawn and gave you that exact speech he would tell them no way I don't trust you with my lawn he's just gonna organize a warlock quinceanera on it look look here is the thing at the start of this piece I said that I didn't want to make predictions and who knows maybe eoqs is going to be the next Google I don't think it is and I certainly don't think it can be worth over a billion dollars at this point but I could be wrong I'm absolutely not but I could be the point is if you choose to invest in the cryptocurrency space just know that you're not investing you're gambling which is fine but you should know that that is what you're doing and prices do go down Bitcoin could eventually be worthless or it could be worth billions and adopted as a new global currency although if that does happen I for one will not experience it because I'll be in an underground bunker trying to avoid Dan's smug little face for the rest of time I hate your belts more than anything else in that photo the important thing to remember here is that this is a brand new very complicated space and literally nobody knows how it's going to develop so you need to be careful and I know that sounds boring caution is a tough sell when you're up against bit connect and hold or gap which is why I have invited a special guest to help make that message a little more exciting<br />
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I really so grill right now to be saying this super excited honking don't imagine my moment with all of you because tonight we're going to be talking about okay you've got to tell me more about this responsibility did this mean I shouldn't just throw everything I own into cryptocurrencies now it's raion that's right I shouldn't know the crypto market is extremely volatile and insufficiently regulated they talk they don't if they pumping down the puppet of their company popping it and double it in the W and their permanent issue they've opened up and they pumping it dumping they dumping a puff all the time and they don't yes that's right the belt yep listen upbeat design chuckle coins investing in crypto could be like getting in on Google on the ground<br />
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when you say that that that sounds absolutely great it could be like getting in on Google glass on the ground floor and that's what not to be and one story did that was a single that was a single story so let's break this down what is the big lesson never invest anymore that you are willing to lose and if you do don't just blindly hot okay instead you have to be extremely careful okay how to betray us Todd playful game... okay.<br />
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Alright let's get into it. Alright so we have transported inside of my computer using a little technology called Magic. And now I'm going to show you guys step-by-step some real world examples of how affiliate marketing works and how it is used in the real world. But just to get things started, a basic description at its core of affiliate is that it is just referrals, okay. So affiliate marketing it's kind of a fancy term for just referrals. It's basically referring people to products and services of companies that are not your own and then receiving commission if those people sign up or take action upon your referral. Usually through a link. </div>
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So just to give you guys a quick, quick example. So this is my video. It's a review of a very popular headphone called the Audio-Technica ATH-M50x, which I actually have right here. It looks a little different from the video because I put some skins on them. But basically you guys can see 300,000 views. And if you scroll down to the description, the first thing you see here is an Amazon link. And you guys as long as you weren't born yesterday, if you watch any sort of tech review on YouTube, you're gonna see Amazon links or some sort of funny looking links in description, And nine times out of ten those are affiliate links. And what is an affiliate link? Basically, Amazon Associates if I just go right here, it is Amazon's affiliate program. </div>
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Let's just log out of that real quick. So Amazon Associates is Amazon's affiliate program. And as you guys can see, earn up to 10% advertising fees with a trusted e-commerce leader. So if you join Amazon Associates which you guys can do today. It's completely free but you might need to have a website in order to get approved. Some people are able to without it. But I would have a website just in case. Alright guys so if you log in and then you just look up products for Amazon Associates that you can promote. As you can see here we have the M50x. And all you have to do is click here, and then get link which basically is your personalized tracking link that you can include in your videos, on your website, on your landing page. </div>
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And then this link is personalized to your account. Now what that means is it has a tracking code through cookies. Where if somebody clicks that link it's gonna be tracked back to you. And for Amazon Associates at least, if somebody buys anything from Amazon, not just the product which is the headphones. If they buy anything within 24 hours, you receive a percentage of the commission. Now, the commission ranges. It definitely ranges based on the product category. It can range from 4 up to 10%. So if I just look up Amazon Associates rates then we can actually see each specific product category and how much they pay. So let's just look down. </div>
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If we scroll down here you guys can see there are a fixed rate for each product on that you sell. So if you sell something from let's say in the PC category. So this could be computers, laptops, DVDs, Blu-ray, et cetera. You get 2.5% of that sale. So if you sell a laptop for $1,000, you will receive 25 bucks basically. So basically 2.5% right there. So that's how it works at its core. </div>
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Amazon Associates is the largest in terms of affiliate programs because it just has the widest range of products. But there are many sort of affiliate networks that have more exclusive offers with the companies and with the products that may yield you a higher percentage of commission. So this is just a quick example right here of how people do it on YouTube. I'm gonna move on to the next example which is blogs. And my favorite affiliate marketing blog is smartpassiveincome.com. It's created by a guy named Pat Flynn who is awesome. He has an awesome podcast that you guys should check out. But basically Pat's been crushing it with affiliate marketing for as long as I've been in the game basically. And if you look at this, this is his income reports. And as you can see two mill during the last 12 months. It's insane. These numbers are crazy. </div>
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Six figures a month. Six figures a month when a lot of people are trying to strive for six figures a year, this guy's making six figures every single month. And it's just insane. But basically if you scroll down. If I just choose the latest income report. So we'll do August 2017. I just scroll down and I'll show you guys that he actually is transparent enough to share his affiliate marketing earnings broken down by company. So as you guys can just scroll down here you see Amazon. </div>
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He made about 600 bucks, not too bad. But if you scroll down to some of these other companies like Bluehost, you see $19,470 from a single source of affiliate marketing. So from posting links guys. Again, it's that simple, it's that easy. It's completely passive income. Which is one of the reasons why I believe it is the best online business that anyone can take up today. So just to give you guys a little more detail into how this works. Bluehost right here, they are a web hosting company and it's obvious they have an affiliate program. Because he's earning close to 20 grand from it. Now if we go to Bluehost's website. You guys can see right here bluehost.com. </div>
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It's web hosting. For anyone who wants to create a website you can sign up for Bluehost right here. With WordPress or whatever. But if you scroll down to the very bottom. And now this works for most companies that have affiliate programs. You will see affiliates at the bottom footer. Now if you click that it will take you right into their affiliate program. And you guys can actually see over five million paid in commissions last year alone. So as you guys can see this isn't some sort of scam or anything. Definitely do not confuse affiliate marketing with network marketing, which is multi-level marketing, which is pyramid schemes. Affiliate marketing is not a pyramid scheme at all. It is legit sales and commissions. So basically you're a salesman for real companies. You're not selling energy drinks and driving around base three series. This this is a real business right here. This right here I mean look at this right now. Bluehost is a legit company. </div>
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They also have affiliate programs for companies like HostGator, GoDaddy. You've heard of these companies. You've seen them on TV, you've seen them on ads. These are real companies that were talking about. So anyways getting back into Bluehost's affiliate program. If you scroll down, as you guys can see, free to join as with most affiliate programs. You guys can see how it works. Basically you have custom banners and links just like Amazon Associates for every visitor who clicks your link and signs up within I believe a 30 day period. Now Amazon's is only 24 hours. But for most affiliate programs it's usually around a 30 day tracking cookie. It's between 14 days to 30 days. 60 days, sometimes 90 days. But 30 is the industry average for tracking links. And Bluehost, they will give you $65 a pop for everyone who signs up through your Bluehost link. </div>
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Completely free to join just like Amazon Associates. Again, this is affiliate marketing. It's very simple, it's very basic. But I figured I'd just peel back the kimono and show you guys how people are really making money online behind the scenes. Now I'll give you one more example. This is Instagram. One of my favorite YouTubers slash people that I follow on Instagram is Maxx Chewning. Been following him since the first few days back when he started doing the Full Day of Eating videos. Those were my favorite. Basically here is an ad. This is for MVMT watches. And this is a little different because the thing is with affiliate marketing is you usually have links right. But another way that you can do this, now some people call this sponsorship, it's all the same thing to me. Basically is providing coupon codes. So as you guys can see, Maxx has his own coupon codes. It's personalized, says, "MAXX15". You get $15 off your order at MVMT. </div>
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And basically what is happening here is if you use Maxx's link, yes you get $15 off but he also gets attribution for your sale, and therefore he gets a kickback or commission. Now I don't know how much he makes off the sale. I'm not a MVMT affiliate, I cannot speak on that. But it's probably somewhere around 10, 15 bucks per sale. Which is a very nice extra source of income considering how passive it is. He just has to post one photo like this or make one video and he can continue to earn money off every single sale from that video. And as you guys can see, the power of the internet, the power of scale. This has over 10,000 likes. And you can bet that of those 10,000 likes, the chances of a few people buying a watch using his code are pretty high. Let's be honest. It's just math at the end of the day. Marketing is a numbers game. And if you're getting 10,000 likes, you're getting 10,000 views, you're getting 10,000 clicks. Chances are someone's buying something and you're gonna be making commission. </div>
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So basically those are all my big examples. It's very simple. I hope I can show you guys behind the scenes of how affiliate marketing actually works in the real world. And how people are using it to generate large sources of side income that is different. And it's more effective than just doing Google AdSense. Which is just showing ads. Just for an example, YouTube only pays two bucks for every thousand views in my experience. Now this this changes depending on your niche or your industry. But just to put things in perspective. If Maxx sells one of these and he makes $15, just think about the amount of views he would have to get to make that same amount of money from one sale of selling one watch. So really less is more. </div>
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You don't have to sell as much. You don't have to get as many views. But if you get sales you get more commission than getting thousands upon thousands of views. But obviously if you have both then it's a win-win for everybody. Multiple streams of income always the way to go. Alright guys so that wraps up this video. I hope you guys found value in this free lesson. And if you guys like the video please thumbs up the video and leave a comment below letting me know because I really appreciate it. And it will allow me to continue to make more videos and free lessons just like this. If you have any questions about affiliate marketing, feel free to leave a comment below or contact me via Instagram by dming me at odi_productions. </div>
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So leave a comment, Instagram, either way I'll get back to your question as soon as possible. Now for anyone who is serious about affiliate marketing and you want to use it as a vehicle to wealth and living a life of passive income and basically hopefully one day achieving your dream life like it gave me. Guys definitely check out my brand new course called Affiliate Marketing CHAMP at affiliatemarketingchamp.com. Where I just released my brand new course that's five hours of HD video. If you guys enjoyed my teaching style. If you guys enjoyed learning from me. And if you want me to be your mentor and your guide for affiliate marketing, then definitely check out this course. I share a bunch of really awesome lessons such as the best examples of successful affiliate marketing in the real world. So it's an extension of this video. </div>
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I'm showing pretty much every single example out there of how affiliate marketing works. And also giving you guys a step-by-step plan on how to start a successful affiliate marketing business. So basically I give each step on how I've created my affiliate marketing businesses, and you guys can replicate that exact same process. And by doing each one of these steps, it increases your chances of success by that much more. Also I share the most profitable niches in affiliate marketing. Which is a complete game changer. 'Cause this could be the difference between making a thousand a month and 10,000 a month. And trust me I learned that from experience. Aside from that, I teach you guys how to rank on the first page of YouTube and Google while still being a small channel. I've been able to surpass YouTubers who have millions of subscribers. </div>
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Millions more than I do and I've been able to surpass them on the Google rankings on the first page. And also I'm going to show you guys how to use paid traffic and show you guys a secret paid traffic source that will turbocharge your results for not much investment. Along with creating a Facebook ad for affiliate marketing. And even creating an affiliate marketing website from scratch. Lastly, I share my top five mistakes of affiliate marketing that I wish I knew when I got started. That would have saved me months, if not years of frustration and failure. But that's basically the core of the lessons guys. I'm going to be adding more modules, more lessons in the future. </div>
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And I'm going to keep expanding this course to be the most comprehensive and the best possible course in affiliate marketing to get you guys started today. So if you guys are interested in that, I actually have a $100 off discount that is going to be for a limited time. If you guys use the link in the description. So the code is gonna be already applied. As you guys can see here, there is no discount or anything like that. But if you guys apply the code, then you guys will see $100 off discount. And there's limited spots available. So if you guys are really interested in this I suggest you get on it ASAP. But if you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment below, Instagram DM me, whichever way you can reach me. And I'll be happy to answer those questions. So anyways on to the next video. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Alright, peace.<br />
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I wanted to share this little story with you. I got into a little bit of trouble with the French Government. I know. The French Government. So what happened was, let's start at the beginning. France won the World Cup. And so on the show, we celebrated that and I had this joke where I said, I said Africa won the World Cup. Yeah, and I was shocked at how angry a lot of French people got, like genuine, a lot of French people were angry and they were like, "Oh Trevor how can you say this, why would you say these things?</div>
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You know this is horrible." and I was like okay, I get it, not everyone likes every joke that you tell and I get that but this was interesting. I got a letter from the ambassador of France. And I'll read it to you, it was about that joke. And he says, I'll try to read it how I hope he wrote it. Which was he says, "Sir I watched with great attention your July 17th show when you spoke of the victory of the French team at the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia final which took place last Sunday. </div>
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I heard your words about an African victory, nothing could be less true."Now, first of all, I think it could have been less, I could have says they were Scandinavian. That would have been less true, that would have been less true. He says, "As many of the players have already stated themselves, their parents may have come from another country but a great majority of them -- all but two out of 23 were born in France. </div>
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They were educated in France, they learned to play soccer in France, they are French citizens. They're proud of their country, France. The rich and various backgrounds of these players is a reflection of France's diversity. France is indeed..." Now that line there was interesting. The rich and various backgrounds of these players is a reflection of France's diversity. </div>
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Now, I'm not trying to be an asshole but I think it's more a reflection of France's colonialism. Because it's not like it's just like random players, like they all have something in common. Like all of those players if you trace their lineage you're like how did you guys become French? Like, how did your family start speaking French? Oh, okay. And it says here, he says, "France is indeed a cosmopolitan country but every citizen is part of the French identity and together they belong to the nation of France. Unlike in the United States of America, France does not refer to its citizens based on their race, religion or origin. To us, there is no hyphenated identity. </div>
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Roots are an individual reality, by calling them an African team it seems like you're denying their Frenchness. This, even in jest, legitimizes the ideology which claims whiteness as the only definition of being French."So now here's the thing, first things first. I understand what he's saying 'cause I read up on this afterwards, right? I take criticism. </div>
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I'll listen to what somebody says to me. I genuinely believe you should, and what it turns out is in France, a lot of Nazis in that country use the fact that these players are of African descent to shit on their Frenchness, you know. So they go you're not French, you're from Africa go back to where you came from, you're not French. </div>
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They use that as a line of attack. Now my thing, my opinion is coming from South Africa, coming from Africa and even watching the World Cup in the United States of America, black people all over the world were celebrating the Africaness of the French players, right. Not in a negative way but rather in a positive way going look at these Africans who can become French. You know what I mean, it's a celebration of that achievement. And so, this is what I find weird in these arguments is that people go they're not African, they're French. Then I'm like why can't they be both?</div>
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Right, why is that duality only afforded to select group of people, why can they not be African? So what they're arguing here is, in order to be French you have to erase everything that is African, 'cause what do they mean when they say that our culture, our this. So you cannot be French and African at the same time, which I vehemently disagree with. I go if you see those players I love them, Paul Pogba, N'Golo Kante, I've watched all of them. Like, I love those players and I love how African they are and how French they are. I don't take their Frenchness away but I also don't think you need to take their Africaness away. </div>
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And that is what I love about America. America is not a perfect country but what I love about this place is that people can still celebrate their identity in their Americaness. You can go to a St. Patrick's Day parade in America celebrating that you are Irish. You can go to a Puerto Rican day parade in America still celebrating the fact that you are Puerto Rican and American at the same time. </div>
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You can celebrate Juneteenth as black person and be like "yo, I'm African-American,"which is the duality of the two worlds. But here they're going, "No you are only French." And here's why it vexes me, to be honest. This is what I find interesting, is like, when I read stories from Africa and I watch what politicians say, especially in France about African migrants: when they are unemployed, when they may commit a crime, or when they are considered unsavory, it's the African immigrant. When their children go on to provide a World Cup victory for France, we should only refer to them as France. And we even saw it with that African man who climbed the building to rescue the baby, do you remember that? - </div>
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Yes. - We watched him climb that building, he rescued the child and then they gave him French citizenship, they said you are now French. So now I'm going so is he now no longer African? Is that what you're saying? So when he was on the ground he was African. And then he climbed up and as soon as he rescued the baby now he's French. So if he dropped the baby, The African dropped the baby. </div>
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I don't believe that you need and here's like I would say again with respect I understand what the ambassador is saying. I'm not joining the attack and I know don't get me wrong, I know we live in a world where like nuance is something that is in short supply. And so you will find in America for instance, the alt-right saying, "That's what we've been saying, they're not French and we're saying but if Trevor says it it's not racist, but if we say it it's racist."Yeah, yeah. I'll say yeah, you know why? Because I believe context is everything. There are certain things you can say to somebody that like when I say to my friends, What's going on, my nigga?" and if a white person came and said the same thing, yeah there's a big difference.</div>
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When I'm saying they're African I'm not saying it as a way to exclude them from their Frenchness but I'm rather using it to include them in my Africaness. I'm saying, "I see you my French brother of African descent."Do you know what I'm saying, that's what I'm trying to say, when somebody else says it the other way. You can use the same line in different ways. People are like, so it's different? Yeah, yeah it's different, it can be different. It's like somebody saying, "So if you play with your naked child it's a problem but if I do it I'm a pedophile?"Yeah, yeah there's a big difference. </div>
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There's a huge difference. So I will continue to praise them for being African because I believe that they are of Africa. Their parents are from Africa and they can be French at the same time. And if French people are saying they cannot be both, then I think they have a problem and not me.</div>
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The Tide says that he examines how the violation of internal data as sensitive business data is introduced into a hard drive that gets into the hands of a Norwegian newspaper, according to the variety. The newspaper, the Norwegian business publication Dagens Næringsliv, has blacked the music streaming Service last week to infer both its number of growth subscribers and streaming numbers of popular exclusive versions, including Lemonade Beyonce and this life is Kanye West Pablo. Allegeledy, data showing numbers were inflated, found in the hard drive paper, obtained in a way that it did not publish.</div>
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The Tide is hard to reward, but it is also now to say that it explores how all confidential business data may have made their way onto a hard drive that was then given the card. "We refuse and deny the allegations that were made by Dagens Næringsliv, " The CEO of Marea Richard Snaders said in the statement given the variety. "When we learned of a possible data breach we immediately, and aggressively, began continuing the opportunities to find out what was going on. "</div>
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So we may not know if all the data is derived from the Dagens Næringsliv is lawful, and if it is true that the tides are inflated from their number. But it seems that the database partially covers the tides, the information does not want to be public. According to the variety, a tidal wave, which often does not share the numbers in public, unless you want tout successful triggers exclusively stored in the elusive believed numbers of lemonade and Pablo life, including, inter alia, the albums. For example, the Tide claimed the West album recorded 250 000 000 streams during the first 10 days after the release of only 3 000 000 subscribers, which would mean every subscriber to hear an album full on average eight times a day.</div>
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We return and deny allegations, made by Dagens Næringsliv. While we generally don't comment on the stories that we believe to be wrong, we feel it is important to make sure that our artists, employees and subscribers know that we do not take the safety and integrity of our data lightly, and we do not go back down to our vendors T for them.</div>
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In addition, we have hired an independent third-party cyber-security company to review what has happened and help us to further protect the security and integrity of our data. We pride ourselves on hard work, dedication to our guided artist's mission, and immense achievements of our over 100 employees in Norway and 50 more in the United States.</div>
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More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lighting in central Norway in what wildlife officials are calling an unusually large natural disaster.<br />
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The Norwegian Environment Agency has released eerie images showing a jumble of reindeer carcasses scattered across a small area on the Hardangervidda mountain plateau. The agency says 323 animals were killed, including 70 calves, in the lightning storm Friday.<br />
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Agency spokesman Kjartan Knutsen told the AP it's not uncommon for reindeer or other wildlife to be killed by lightning strikes, "but we have not heard about such numbers before."<br />
He said reindeer tend to stay very close to each other in bad weather, which could explain how so many were killed at once.<br />
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Thousands of reindeer migrate across the barren Hardanangervidda plateau as the seasons change.<br />
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Pictures released by the Norwegian Environment Agency on Sunday show 323 carcasses scattered across a small, isolated area in Hardangervidda National Park. The plateau-like park in south-central Norway is home to Europe's largest herds of wild reindeer, according to its website.</div>
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One of the agency's inspectors discovered the dead animals over the weekend after a storm passed through.</div>
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Wild animals are occasionally struck by lightning, but the agency has never seen so many killed at once, spokesperson Kjartan Knutsen told CNN.</div>
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"We have never experienced such numbers before. This is very large," Knutsen said. He said the wild reindeer were huddled together because of heavy weather on Friday, when the strike occurred.</div>
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Humans rarely visit the remote area. The dead reindeer were found by one of the agency's inspectors because Norway is in the midst of its annual wild reindeer hunting season.</div>
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Knutsen said five reindeer were still alive when the inspector came across the scene, but they had to be euthanized.</div>
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He said the agency has now begun taking samples from the dead animals as part of a health survey.</div>
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The dead reindeer were still on site Monday. While the agency usually does not remove animals when they die in the wild, it is currently considering other options because of the large numbers, Knutsen said.</div>
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It's not the first time a large herd of animals have been killed by lightning. In 2005, 68 cows were killed in Australia by a single bolt.</div>
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A lightning strike in Norway has killed more than 300 reindeer, according to reports from local media. A spokesman for the Norwegian Nature Inspectorate (NNI) told NTB, the Norwegian News Agency, that 323 reindeer were found dead on Friday in an area near Hardangervidda, in the southern part of the country. In a press release published Sunday, the Norwegian Environment Agency said that 70 of the dead reindeer were calves. Officials believe that the animals were killed by lightning during a heavy thunderstorm, marking what could be the deadliest lightning strike in history.</div>
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"We’ve heard about animals being struck by lightning and killed, but I don’t remember hearing about lightning killing animals on this scale before," NNI spokesman Knut Nylend tells NTB. "We don’t know if it was one or more lighting strike; that would only be speculation."</div>
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Nylend discovered the animals in a remote part of a private hunting area, and NIN employees have been dispatched to the region to take samples from the reindeer. Hardangervidda national park is home to an estimated 10,000 wild reindeer that migrate across the region every year. Nylend speculates that the reindeer may have been killed because they are often close to one another, and "they may have gathered even closer together out of fear" during the thunderstorm.</div>
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As BNO News notes, the deadliest lightning strike involving livestock occurred in 2005, when 68 cows were killed in Australia, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. The deadliest incident involving humans occurred in 1971, according to Guinness, when a lightning strike caused a Peruvian airline to crash into the Amazon, killing 91 people. The Guinness Book of World Records does not appear to track wildlife deaths due to lightning strikes.</div>
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An innocent 84-year-old grandmother was attacked by police, pepper sprayed, arrested, and hospitalized last week after officers chased a suspect during a traffic stop.<br />
Police were after the victim’s son, who they say refused to stop for a traffic stop and ran into her home instead. When officers showed up, according to Smith, they kicked in her door and as she got up to see who was there — she was met with a face full of chemical agent.<br />
According to Smith, after police pepper sprayed her for no reason, they arrested her, dragged her to the police car and brought her to jail. Clearly stressed over being kidnapped and thrown in a cell, this 84-year-old woman began to have a panic attack. She was then rushed to the hospital.<br />
When FOX 23 contacted the Muskogee police department, they couldn’t comment on the case citing an internal investigation.<br />
It was unclear as to what police charged the woman with. However, it is likely the standard ‘resisting, interfering, or obstructing.’<br />
Smith now plans to take legal action against the department for her assault.<br />
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Cops attacking elderly people is an unfortunate yet all too common problem.<br />
Earlier this year, two LAPD officers were named in a lawsuit filed by an innocent 62-year-old woman. No longer able to place her trust in police officers after becoming a victim of excessive force, the traumatized woman has become fearful of interacting with people.<br />
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Early on the morning of April 14, a surveillance video captured two LAPD cops in a marked SUV slowly following 62-year-old Ok Jin Jun’s car into a Koreatown church parking lot. According to CBSNews, Jun admitted to honking her car horn about six times because the police vehicle had been blocking the church driveway.<br />
After parking her car, Jun was immediately confronted by the two officers and ordered to show her registration despite the fact that she had not committed a crime. Confused and unable to speak much English, Jun attempted to call her husband and a 911 interpreter from her cell phone.<br />
Suddenly, one of the officers appeared to grab Jun’s arms for no reason before both cops abruptly shoved the elderly woman against her own car. Although Jun did not pose an immediate threat, the officers slammed her onto the pavement before placing her in handcuffs.<br />
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Before Jun, there was Tyrone Carnegay, an innocent Atlanta man who spent multiple days handcuffed to a hospital bed with a broken leg and a severed artery after an Atlanta cop falsely accused him of stealing a tomato that he actually bought.<br />
Carnegay spent then spent three days in jail before the charges were finally dropped. The interaction was all caught on a Walmart security camera.<br />
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As the incidents above illustrate, being innocent and elderly is no defense from police. The old apologist saying of “if you don’t want to be attacked by police, don’t break the law,” rings hollow to those in the destructive wake of police brutality.<br />
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Every so often when people find out about the position we tend to take on copying, they hit back with what they think is a "gotcha" of something along the lines of "you wouldn't feel that way if someone copied your stuff." They really do. All the time. There are a number of scraper/spam blogs that copy and repost Techdirt's content, and it's really no big deal. As we've noted for a long time, all of the content that we publish directly we've declared to be in the public domain, so feel free to copy it with some caveats (which we'll discuss below). Last week, we launched our latest T-shirt, the "Copying is Not Theft" shirt:</div>
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The Kim Dotcom extradition appeal is now under way, with the first question being whether or not the courtroom drama could be livestreamed on the internet for a global public to watch. The request was originally made by Kim Dotcom and his lawyers, but the lawyers for the US government opposed... because... well, just because.</div>
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"US defends mass surveillance programs with 'If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear' but opposes live streaming of my hearing," Dotcom, who attended some of the hearing, said on Twitter.</div>
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Honestly, it's not at all clear why the government lawyers are opposing this other than to just oppose stuff and be generally obstructionist. However, it doesn't appear to have worked. A little while ago, Dotcom's lawyer Ira Rothken announced that the court had agreed to allow live streaming:</div>
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Cyrus Farivar of Ars Technica has obtained court documents showing the Oakland Police Department had to call in the feds -- and their IMSI catcher -- to track down a suspect wanted in connection with a shooting of an off-duty police officer.</div>
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According to new government affidavits filed earlier this week, the Oakland Police Department (OPD) used its stingray without a warrant in 2013 for several hours overnight as a way to locate a man accused of being involved in shooting a local police officer. The OPD called in the FBI when that effort was unsuccessful. The FBI was somehow able to locate the suspect in under an hour, and he surrendered to OPD officers.</div>
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The only reason these affidavits even exist is because the judge presiding over the prosecution of Purvis Ellis ordered the government to submit declarations detailing how the devices were used to locate him. Two declarations -- one from the FBI [PDF] and one from the Oakland PD [PDF] -- shed some additional light on the now-ubiquitous cell phone-tracking technology.</div>
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Neither law enforcement agency sought a warrant for their Stingray deployments. Both declarations claim none was needed because of "exigent circumstances." Given that this occurred before the DOJ instituted a warrant requirement for the FBI's Stingray use, it's unlikely any evidence is in danger of being tossed.</div>
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The Oakland PD's declaration states the same thing: no warrant was sought because of "exigent circumstances." Similarly, there appears to have been no warrant requirement in place for the Oakland Police Department at that time. That doesn't mean the court won't find that the use of a Stingray device (or, in this case, two of them) requires the use of a warrant, but even if it does, the good faith exception is likely to apply -- especially in the FBI's case, as its warrant requirement was still thee years away. In both deployments, pen register orders were used to obtain subscriber info. Because exigent circumstances dictated the requests, no judicial approval of the orders was needed.</div>
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Prosecutors argued that because the three men involved in the altercation were at large, there was a clear exigency. Ellis’ defense, meanwhile, has countered that because the OPD had declared the scene “secure” 14 minutes after Karsseboom was shot, there was no exigency. This issue remains unresolved.</div>
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On one hand, securing a crime scene doesn't immediately dispel perceived exigency. As the government points out, the shooting suspects were still free and roaming Oakland. On the other hand, the amount of time that elapsed between the Oakland PD's response to the reported shooting and the eventual location of Ellis by the FBI -- 15 hours -- suggests some of the exigency may have dissipated by the time the FBI fired up its tracking device.</div>
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“It's unclear from the Oakland declaration how continuous the operation of their equipment was,” Brian Hofer, chair of the City of Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission, told Ars. His newly created commission has been scrutinizing the city’s procurement process for surveillance and has pushed for new policies overseeing its use.</div>
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“We believe that Oakland only had an older 2G/3G Stingray, based on public records in our possession,” he continued. “It is possible that the FBI already possessed a Hailstorm or similar 4G capable device at this time, or an older 2G/3G system but with enhanced amplification, or maybe Oakland's equipment was simply malfunctioning."</div>
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The shooting occurred roughly two years before the PD attempted to secure a Homeland Security grant to pay for the Hailstorm upgrade, which would have allowed it to track the suspect. The FBI's newer version had no such problems. The Oakland PD spent ten futile hours searching for Ellis. The FBI located him roughly an hour after deploying its Stingray. It also deployed something else along with it. From the FBI's declaration:</div>
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At one point, in an effort to reduce the error radius and increase the accuracy of the location of the cellular telephone, a cell site simulator augmentation device was deployed into the interior of the apartment building. This device is used in conjunction with the cell site simulator and has no data storage capability whatsoever.</div>
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Farivar spoke to Daniel Rigmaiden -- the person who first uncovered government use of Stingray devices in criminal investigations (prior to that, it had only been deployed in war zones by the military) while serving time for tax fraud -- who suggested the "augmentation device" might be something made by KeyW or one of its competitors. These devices passively collect connection info and are small enough to be carried in an agent's hand.</div>
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Rigmaiden also points out something else this incident shows, however inadvertently. All the money being spent by local law enforcement agencies might be better off spent on other things. Not having a Stingray device isn't the end of the world -- especially when the FBI is willing to put its devices and technical expertise to use at a moment's notice.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">So far there's been a great response to it, but some people seem really upset by the basic message. On Twitter and in our comments, we've had a few people pull out the "Oh, well how will you feel when I copy that shirt!" line of thinking that they'd found some sort of gotcha. The oddest, of all, however, was John Anderson, who apparently runs something called the "Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group" insisting that he's going to counterfeit our shirt.</span></div>
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Yes, yes, he's obviously just being snarky and thinking he's making a point, but it still seems odd for someone who insists he's against counterfeiting to basically say he's planning to counterfeit our shirt. At the very least, it actually gives us a platform to make our point: if he really wants to do so, he can absolutely go and make those cheap $5 shirts. But they won't sell. Why? This is the whole point we've been trying to make all this time. The reason people buy shirts from us is because (1) they like the shirts and (2) they want to support Techdirt. Somehow, I get the feeling that the community that John Anderson has built up around his Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group aren't exactly the kind of people who would jump at an offer to buy "Copying is Not Theft" T-shirts, even if they are 25% the price of our T-shirts. </div>
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This is the point that so many fail to get when they freak out about people copying. If you've built up a community of people who want to support you and people who like and are interested in what you do, there's nothing to fear from copying. It's only when you don't have that kind of support, or when you're trying to force something on people that they don't want that you suddenly have to worry about copying. </div>
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This is why we've always pointed to the same response when people say they're going to copy us and prove that we really are worried about copying or that copying really is theft. It's not. Here's what I wrote nearly a decade ago and it's still stands true today:</div>
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We have no problem with people taking our content and reposting it. It's funny how many people come here, like yourself, and assume you've found some "gotcha." You haven't. There already are about 10 sites that copy Techdirt, post for post. Some of them give us credit. Some of them don't. We don't go after any of them. </div>
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Here's why: </div>
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1. None of those sites get any traffic. By themselves, they offer nothing special. </div>
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2. If anything, it doesn't take people long to read those sites and figure out that the content is really from Techdirt. Then they just come here to the original source. So, it tends to help drive more traffic to us. That's cool. </div>
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3. As soon as the people realize the other sites are simply copying us, it makes those sites look really, really bad. If you want to risk your reputation like that, go ahead, but it's a big risk. </div>
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4. A big part of the value of Techdirt is the community here. You can't just replicate that. </div>
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5. Another big part of the value of Techdirt is that we, the writers, engage in the comments. You absolutely cannot fake that on your own site. </div>
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So, really, what's the purpose of copying our content in the manner you describe, other than maybe driving a little traffic our way? </div>
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So, if you really want to, I'd suggest it's pretty dumb, but go ahead.</div>
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This same thing holds true for counterfeiting goods as well. When we launched our first shirt, the Nerd Harder shirt, we saw a few copycats spring up on Teespring, complete with the language claiming that the shirts were from Techdirt, when they were not. We reached out to Teespring telling them we had no problem with them leaving up the T-shirts, but we would appreciate it if they didn't say that supporting them was supporting Techdirt. That's been consistent with our position all along, that in the realm of trademark, the one thing that does make sense is when it's used as a form of consumer protection. If buyers might be confused about who is really endorsing the product, that's a reasonable concern. But someone copying our shirt without pretending it's from us? That's totally cool. In fact, maybe they can make it better. </div>
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I mean, it's not like we even came up with the phrase "copying is not theft" either. It's the name of a truly wonderful song that Nina Paley wrote and illustrated:</div>
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Did we "steal" her song in taking the title and making it a shirt? Hell, no. We made a new thing. We took something that she did and we built on it to offer something new (cool T-shirts) to a different audience (ours), and so far, it seems to be working. If John Anderson thinks he can compete with his audience, he should go for it. </div>
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Hell, we'd be happy to compete with anyone doing so, because we know the message resonates with our audience. I'm not so sure it would resonate with the audience of some random person trying (and failing) to prove a point. So, bring it on. </div>
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And, yes, we've even made it extra easy for folks like John Anderson. If he likes, we've made the original image available as both a vector SVG file and a high-res PNG. So go ahead, John Anderson from the Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group. Go ahead and counterfeit our shirt. Knock yourself out. I imagine you'll sell somewhere close to zero of them. Though the members of your group may find it odd that the head of a Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group's first response to seeing a T-shirt he doesn't like is to talk about counterfeiting it. Right, John? </div>
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Anyway, if you'd like to make a point to John Anderson and the Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group, here's your opportunity. Buy one of our lovely Copying is Not Theft T-shirts.</div>
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bc fjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06844211277061808602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7762694749925621666.post-87740595031376231012016-08-30T20:27:00.003+02:002016-08-30T20:27:56.283+02:00PETA Has Lost Its Monkey's 'Next Friend' In Its Crazy Copyright Case<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The ongoing saga that is the monkey selfie lawsuit has continued to move forward, with the lawyers for photographer David Slater filing their brief in response to PETA's. As you probably recall, PETA had teamed up with a primatologist named Antje Engelhardt claiming to be "next friends" for the Indonesian macaque monkey named Naruto, who is alleged to have taken the following selfie with David Slater's camera.<br />
Slater has claimed to hold the copyright on the photo for a long time, though he's wrong. But PETA is much more wrong in arguing that it can step in and claim both (a) that there is a copyright on the image and (b) that the monkey holds it. Slater is just wrong about the copyright existing.<br />
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We reported in September on the lawsuit filed in California over the so-called “Monkey selfie” that underscored some of the limits of copyright protection. One of the defendants, Blurb, Inc., the publisher of photographer David Slater’s picture, has moved to dismiss, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has responded. The back and forth is, well, something akin to the infamous barrel full of monkeys.</div>
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The issue first rose to prominence because “A photograph taken by a monkey” was included in the Third Edition of the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices as an example of something incapable of copyright. The Complaint, brought on behalf of “Naruto,” framed its claims like this:</div>
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Naruto has the right to own and benefit from the copyright in the Monkey Selfies in the same manner and to the same extent as any other author. Had the Monkey Selfies been made by a human using Slater’s unattended camera, that human would be declared the photographs’ author and copyright owner. While the claim of authorship by species other than homo sapiens may be novel, “authorship” under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq., is sufficiently broad so as to permit the protections of the law to extend to any original work, including those created by Naruto. </div>
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The Copyright Act affords no rights or protections to animals, the courts have repeatedly found that human authorship is required for copyright protection, and the U.S. Copyright Office has outright rejected any assertion that Copyright Act protects “photograph[s] taken by a monkey.” Accordingly, Next Friends cannot establish that Naruto owns a valid copyright, much less that it was infringed by Blurb.</div>
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The motion also suggests that Naruto, the “plaintiff,” is not, under the allegations of the Complaint, even the animal that took the disputed image. The fundamental argument of the motion is that an animal cannot have standing to sue under the Copyright Act for the basic reason that the Copyright Act does not say they can:</div>
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As the Ninth Circuit has explained, Congress must “make its intention clear before [courts] will construe a statute to confer standing on a particular plaintiff.” Cetacean, 386 F.3d at 1175. No congressional intent to confer rights on animals is remotely evident in the Copyright Act. To the contrary, the plain language of the Copyright Act demonstrates that Congress intended to extend protection only to human beings.</div>
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Even where a statute has been more specifically directed to animal welfare, that implicit purpose is not enough. And, Blurb argues, the Complaint candidly acknowledges that the damages it seeks are to remediate lost habitat, not recover economic loss for intellectual property. If all that were not enough, the motion goes into detail about the, shall we say, anthropomorphic ways that copyright holders are described (“man,” “human being,” etc.).</div>
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PETA does not take this lying down. It argues for a broader interpretation of the Copyright Act, and insists that Naruto was indeed responsible for taking the pictures. It suggests that to the extent there is dispute over whether computers can be considered authors for copyright purposes, so too should animals at least be part of the discussion. PETA argues that the text of the Copyright Act is focused on authorship and ownership, not the species of that author or owner. PETA frames the choice by Congress not to define “author” as the absence of a limitation on that definition to just human beings. It weakens this point substantially by saying that the acknowledgment that “employers” can be owners, therefore extending ownership beyond humans. But an employer is either a person or an incorporated entity, about which there is no dispute as to standing.</div>
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More broadly, the PETA brief is a work of advocacy to expand the law. It is well written and organized, but clearly intended as an effort to change what the law is. That is nothing novel in and of itself. But the result it seeks certainly would be. It is, to say the least, unlikely.</div>
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Either way, the PETA case was easily tossed out of the district court based on the fact that monkeys can't get copyrights under US law (US laws don't apply to animals unless specifically stated -- this is why farms aren't legally considered murder camps, no matter what some vegetarians might say). And, of course, PETA appealed. And we expect it will go about as well as the district court case. But it may go even worse. </div>
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That's because in the reply, Slater's lawyer points out that not only can a monkey not hold a copyright, but also that PETA has even less standing than before, because the primatologist, Antje Engelhardt, has decided she's no longer a next friend of our buddy Naruto, the smiling monkey.<br />
On appeal, the crazy got crazier. Dr. Engelhardt withdrew from the case. That leaves PETA, which does not allege any relationship with the monkey, as the monkey’s sole next friend.<br />
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Two putative next friends filed this action: PETA and Dr. Engelhardt, a primatologist who alleged that she has “known, monitored, and studied Naruto since his birth.” ER 23. It may well be that the relationship with Naruto Dr. Engelhardt alleged is “significant” under Coalition of Clergy v. Bush. However, Dr. Engelhardt moved to withdraw from the case, informing the Court that she “will not continue as a next friend to Appellant in this proceeding.” This Court granted Dr. Engelhardt’s motion, thus leaving PETA as Naruto’s lone putative next friend.<br />
This is a fairly big problem for PETA and its big time (seriously) lawyers from the (previously respectable) law firm of Irell & Manella.<br />
Unlike Dr. Engelhardt, PETA did not allege any relationship with Naruto, much less a significant one. That is a problem on appeal. PETA is now in a position very much like the ballot initiative defenders in Hollingsworth v. Perry, 133 S. Ct. 2652 (2013): a party necessary for standing at the district court is not participating in the appeal. “[S]tanding must be met by persons seeking appellate review, just as it must be met by persons appearing in courts of first instance.” Id. at 2661 (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).<br />
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All of the Naruto relationship allegations in the Complaint concern Dr. Engelhardt; none involve PETA.... PETA alleges no connection to Naruto, an Indonesian monkey who lives roughly 10,000 miles from PETA’s headquarters in Virginia.<br />
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Under controlling Ninth Circuit precedent, monkey see, monkey sue is not good law under any Act of Congress unless the legislative text plainly grants non-human animals standing to sue.<br />
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Either way, one hopes that the court makes quick work of this case as well, but it is 9th Circuit, which perhaps deserves copyright on its... creative interpretations of copyright law at times. Hopefully this isn't one of those cases.</div>
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Back in 2011, AT&T stopped selling unlimited wireless data plans, and began heavily pushing more expensive capped and metered plans. Existing unlimited users at the time were grandfathered, but the company engaged in all manner of sneaky behavior to try and make life as unpleasant as possible for these users, ranging from blocking them from using Facetime unless they migrated to metered plans, to heavily throttling these "unlimited" users after only consuming a few gigabytes of data. Ultimately AT&T faced a $100 million fine by the FCC (currently being contested by AT&T), and a 2014 lawsuit by the FTC for misleading consumers and dramatically changing the terms of service while users were under contract. </div>
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A California judge decided that the class-action lawsuit filed against AT&T for throttling unlimited data will not be allowed to proceed. According to AT&T, customers should only have their complaints heard on an individual basis through arbitration, and it seems as though Judge Edward Chen from the U.S. District Court in Northern California agrees with the company.</div>
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Many customers, however, suggest that arbitration would violate the First Amendment right to petition a court for a grievance. Arbitration would allow claims to be brought to the small claims court, but some suggest that the small claims court is not an adequate forum.</div>
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Chen’s decision comes from a 2011 case, in which the Supreme Court upheld AT&T’s argument for arbitration. According to the Supreme Court, the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a California state law which limits a company’s power to force customers into arbitration.</div>
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Customers first filed the lawsuit when AT&T started throttling iPhone users if they used more than 3GB or 5GB of data in one month — even if they had unlimited data plans. The data speeds were far slower than standard speeds, so the customers argue that their unlimited data plans weren’t truly unlimited or useful.</div>
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The ruling is a pretty big one for AT&T. It’s unlikely that thousands of iPhone users will file individual lawsuits to the small claims court. Not only that, but those who do take their case to court will have to deal with the legal fees that they wouldn’t otherwise need to pay in a class-action lawsuit.</div>
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Still, AT&T isn’t completely out of the woods yet, and will face punishment from the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission. The FCC has proposed a fine of $100 million to AT&T, saying that the company violated FCC transparency laws by labeling plans as “unlimited.”</div>
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The FTC has also separately sued AT&T for millions of dollars of refunds for customers, and while AT&T argues that the FTC has no jurisdiction in this case, that claim was rejected by the court. Of course, AT&T is still trying to avoid any punishment whatsoever.</div>
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"It is rich to see AT&T in two different appellate courts at once, simultaneously arguing in this case that its mobile broadband is a common carriage service -- and therefore not subject to FTC jurisdiction -- while telling the DC Circuit that AT&T's mobile broadband cannot be treated as a common carrier service."</div>
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Initially it seemed like the laugh would be on AT&T, with a court last year denying AT&T's motion for dismissal (pdf), ruling it was "unambiguously clear" that only AT&T wireless voice, not wireless data, was classified as common carrier when the lawsuit was filed last fall. But this week an appeals court in California contradicted this finding and dismissed the FTC's case entirely, the ruling (pdf) stating AT&T can no longer be held in violation of the FTC Act because it's now classified as a common carrier under the Communications Act:</div>
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There's some indications in the ruling that the court wasn't sure that the FTC ever had authority over AT&T under the FTC Act (Title II or no). But it's still amazing to realize that AT&T was simultaneously arguing before two different courts that ISPs should not be classified as common carriers under Title II, while at the same time using this pending reclassification as grounds to dismiss the FTC lawsuit. Fancy footwork, that. AT&T may still face the $100 million FCC fine for lying to its customers, provided its lawyers can't tap dance out of that punishment as well. This all occurs, of course, as AT&T's lawyers and trade groups continue their original assault on Title II</div>
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We've seen it so often over the years, it's probably now time to accept the fact that this will never change: when entities are presented evidence of security holes and breaches, far too often the initial reaction is to shoot the messenger.</div>
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A school whose online student portal exposed a lot of sensitive data decided the best way to handle a concerned parent's repeated questions about how it was handling the problem was to file a criminal complaint against the parent. (via the Office of Inadequate Security)</div>
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The National Fraternal Order of Police (NFOP) says Hillary Clinton’s campaign has made it clear that she will not be seeking an endorsement from them this presidential election cycle.</div>
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NFOP president Chuck Canterbury said he was “disappointed and shocked” that Clinton “declined” to even return a questionnaire which had been sent to her campaign. The only other candidate he can remember not returning the questionnaire was John Kerry in 2004.</div>
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According to The Hill, Canterbury said, “It sends a powerful message.” He added, “You would think with law enforcement issues so much in the news that even if she had disagreements with our positions, that she would’ve been willing to say that.”</div>
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Throughout her career, Hillary Clinton has been committed to our law enforcement officers. As she said from the beginning of her campaign, across the country, police officers are out there every day inspiring trust and confidence, honorably doing their duty, putting themselves on the line to save lives.</div>
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She believes we must work together to build on what’s working and to build the bonds of trust between police and the communities they serve — because we are stronger together.</div>
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The district uses Google Apps for Education (GAFE), a hosting solution by Google that incorporates Google mail, calendar, and chat services. Lewis-Palmer used it for student email accounts, which at that time consisted of the student’s district identification number. [The] system used by the district allowed anyone with email address in the system to download a complete contact list of district students. The list identified students’ names and district email addresses. Because student email accounts were comprised of the student ID, anyone who gained access to this list only needed to know the students’ birthdays to access another program, Infinite Campus, which contains the personal data of possibly thousands of students.</div>
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Normally, it might have been difficult to ascertain what students' passwords were. But the school made it easy for anyone to suss out passwords and access the sensitive information stored at the Infinite Campus portal. This message, posted by administrators, sat on the login page for over nearly three years before being removed.</div>
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On Aug. 9, 2013 the district posted: “Due to a security enhancement within Infinite Campus, your network and IC passwords have been changed! You must now enter the prefix LP@ before your regular birthday password (i.e. LP@031794).”</div>
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What was contained behind the papier-mache security facade was a wealth of sensitive student info.</div>
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In Lewis-Palmer, students and parents had access to names, addresses, and phone numbers for students, parents, siblings, and emergency contacts; schedules; attendance records; grades; locker numbers and combinations; transportation details, including where and when bus pickups took place; and health records.</div>
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Parent Derek Araje brought this to the attention of Dewayne Mayo, a district technology teacher. Rather than promise to look into it or direct him to someone who might be able to verify his claims, Mayo became irritated and accused Araje of "breaking federal law."</div>
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Mayo also emailed other school administrators to complain about Araje, claiming he was "polluting the waters" and making it easier for parents skeptical about "any new technology" used by the district to raise complaints. Others in the email thread treated Araje's claims skeptically, asserting (hilariously) that it would take "advanced cracking skills" to break into a site where visitors were greeted with a message that basically gave away every students' password.</div>
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Six months after it was brought to the school's attention, parents are finally notified. Two days later, the school shut down the site and GAFE access. On the same day, the school filed a criminal complaint [PDF] with local police department accusing parent Derek Araje of hacking into the website. Fortunately for Araje, the police cleared him of any wrongdoing a month later.</div>
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Not only did the school go after the person who brought the security hole directly to its attention, but it significantly downplayed its own role in making sensitive student info easily-obtainable. Teacher, administrator, and technology director Bill Fitzgerald points out the school's blatant attempt to cover its own ass after ignoring the site's security issues for months, if not years.</div>
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It also appears - based on the parent testimony at the board meeting - that these concerns were brought to the district's attention in the fall of 2015, and were dismissed. Based on some of the other descriptions regarding access to health records, it also sounds like there might be some issues related to Infinite Campus and how it was set up, but that's unclear.</div>
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What is clear, however, is that the district is not being as forthright as they need to be. The board meeting with parent testimony was May 19th; Complete Colorado article ran on May 24th. The data privacy page on the Lewis Palmer web site was updated on May 25th, with the following statement:</div>
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"Yesterday, we discovered a possible security breach through normal monitoring of IP addresses accessing our systems."</div>
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Given that the security issue was covered in the local press the day prior, and that the district was publishing their password structure for over three years, I'd recommend they look at their logs going back a while. I'd also recommend that the district own their role exacerbating this issue.</div>
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Instead of owning its role, the school chose to try to make someone else -- parent Derek Araje -- pay for its own carelessness and unwillingness to address a security hole until it became impossible to ignore.</div>
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bc fjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06844211277061808602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7762694749925621666.post-88614028159745524492016-08-28T17:51:00.002+02:002016-08-28T17:51:30.161+02:00Little Tree Air Freshener Company Sues Non-Profit For Making Tree Shaped Ornaments<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Little Tree Air Freshener Company Sues Non-Profit For Making Tree Shaped Ornaments</h2>
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You know those stupid and annoying "tree shaped" car air fresheners you see every damn where? Of course you do. The company behind those "Little Trees" is called Car-Freshner Corporation, and it's notoriously overprotective of whatever trademark it thinks it has. Way back in 2009, we wrote about the company and an absolutely ridiculous ad it had taken out in Photoshop User Magazine:</div>
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At the time, we noted how odd it was to take out a full page ad warning people against supposed trademark infringement, and over-claiming its own rights at the same time (e.g., "no matter how you use it."). So it comes as little surprise that Car-Freshener corporation is a bit of a trademark bully in court. Though, perhaps it's met its match -- and it may result in it losing some trademarks.</div>
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Trademark lawyer Marty Schwimmer, who runs the excellent Trademark Blog, is representing a non-profit organization, Sun Cedar, that has been sued by Car-Freshener for daring to create tree-shaped blocks of wood (cedar!) that smell good. The answers and counterclaims from Sun Cedar is worth the read in full, but we'll hit a few high points here. Sun Cedar is not just a non-profit, but an organization that tries to train and to employ "at risk" individuals, including those who are homeless, ex-felons and substance abusers to help them get back on their feet. The organization creates objects out of wood, including tree shaped ornaments. It even ran a very successful Kickstarter project last year. </div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">So, yeah, both organizations make </span>tree shaped<span style="text-align: justify;"> objects that smell nice. But that's about the extent of it. To argue that only the Little Trees trademark extends that far is a huge reach. In comparing the two, Sun Cedar's response points out that the only real similarities are the idea of a pine tree -- and that's not protectable.</span></div>
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Sun Cedar does not use any distinctive element that Plaintiffs could arguably claim as a mark (such as the saturated green field or block base in its Tree Design). It is questionable whether Plaintiffs can assert rights in either a blank silhouette of a tree or a blank configuration of a pine tree, because Plaintiffs (1) chose the pine tree outline for functional reasons (to the point of patenting the shape); and (2) have abandoned the blank silhouette registrations, as they do not use blank silhouettes as trademarks in commerce. Finally, Sun Cedar’s $10, thick, wooden ornaments are sold on its website, through Kickstarter, and in “green” retail stores, as opposed to in the gas stations and car washes that sell Plaintiffs’ approximately $1.00 cardboard-thin cellulose car fresheners. The two products never have and never will be offered for sale side by side in any retail setting.</div>
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Now, if you follow the law around trademarks and patents there are a couple of eyebrow raising statements in that paragraph above, beyond just the "hey, our trees are nothing like your trees and there's no chance of confusion." That's the standard "no likelihood of confusion" defense to trademark claims. And it's a good one here, because, really, those are pretty different. And it's ridiculous to argue that any tree shaped thing that smells nice infringes -- especially since there are lots of other such products:</div>
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But, as mentioned above, there are other serious problems here called out in the response and counterclaims that could mean that Car-Freshener is going to lose some of the trademark protections it likes to claim it has. First up: the patent issue. What's that got to do with anything? Well, you see Car-Freshener apparently also got itself a patent on its design, patent 3,065,915, granted back in November of 1962. As you're probably aware, that patent is now long expired. But what does that have to do with the trademark? Well, the patent -- which is technically on the system for removing the car freshener from the packaging over a period of time to release the smell, claims that the tree-shaped design is actually functional to make all this work:</div>
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Upon information and belief, this diagram illustrates the system claimed by the ’915 Patent. Specifically, the diagram consists of seven images, each showing the body of the air freshener in different stages of removal from the cellophane package over a seven week period. A notch is cut in the center of the cellophane. The first week, the packaging is pulled down to the first branch and only the top of the tree is exposed. The second week, the packaging is pulled down to the second branch, exposing more of the tree, and the cellophane is tucked under the corresponding branches. This continues until the seventh week, when the tree is removed completely from the packaging.</div>
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This matters to trademark law because you can't trademark functional design. That's what patent law is for. So Sun Cedar is arguing that the entire trademark here is invalid because it tried to trademark a functional design, and the fact that it's functional is proven by Car-Freshener's own patent. That's a neat legal judo move.</div>
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In short, upon information and belief, the shape of the Tree Design is essential to the use or purpose of the article for which it is registered, namely air fresheners. As such, the Tree Design is functional and is not entitled to registration, pursuant to Section 14(3) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1064(3).</div>
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The filing also argues that the rectangular block base of Little Trees fresheners is also functional since it's used to display names or the type of scent or other information. </div>
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The other interesting argument is that Car-Freshener actually abandoned the actual design in the trademarks that it holds on Little Trees. It gives a few examples of this, but we'll show one here to demonstrate. In arguing that Car-Freshener has abandoned trademarks like US Reg. No 1,781,016, the filing points out that the actual trademark is for a silhouette of the tree shape:</div>
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But that the products it's offering, which it claims show the use in commerce, are not of the silhouette, but quite different:</div>
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I will admit that this part -- claiming abandonment -- feels like more of a stretch to me. Frankly, it seems the case should be won solely on the lack of any likelihood of confusion. But the patent argument saying that the tree-shaped design is functional and therefore cannot be covered by trademark sure is a fun one. It will be interesting to see how this goes in court -- and whether or not Car-Freshener's trademark bullying over its Little Trees products results in the company actually losing some or all of its trademarks...</div>
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bc fjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06844211277061808602noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7762694749925621666.post-19292639487571710632016-08-28T17:36:00.000+02:002016-08-28T17:36:00.255+02:00If You're Learning About It From Slate, Running Your Own Email Server Is A Horrendously Bad Idea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So, Slate has a weird article by Nat Meysenburg suggesting that everyday people should run their own email servers. He admits up front that he doesn't think Hillary Clinton should have run her own email server, but for lots of other people he declares it to be "a good idea."</div>
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For years, I’ve been trying to convince people that there is value in having an email server in your closet. But few seemed to really get it, so I often found myself wishing for a high-profile example to illustrate why it is a good idea. That wish has, in a way, come true: The casual news consumer has had the pleasure of hearing about a “private email server” quite a lot over the past year.</div>
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Except, beyond that, he's basically wrong. Yes, if you're really technologically savvy and want to do it, you can absolutely run your own email server. Though, honestly, it's probably going to be kind of a pain, because you'll need to constantly be patching it and protecting it, and even then it will probably be significantly less secure than if you use an online provider. Meysenberg is right on only one point, barely, and it's that if you run your own email server, and the government wants to get access to it, at least you'll know about it:</div>
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When your emails reside on a cloud provider’s server, the owners of that server are ultimately who decide when to let the government, or any other party, access those emails. In the case of your work’s server, those choices are made by your employer. In the case of Gmail (or any other cloud provider), this choice is typically made by the company’s legal team, based on its evaluation of the government’s demands. Most of the big companies, including Google, do have a policy of notifying users about demands before they hand over the requested data, which would give you an opportunity to assert your rights in court. However, there are many cases in which the government’s demand will be accompanied by a gag order forbidding the company from providing that notice.</div>
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And, thus, he notes:</div>
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Having a private server in your home side steps these uncertainties. At home you as a private individual have the ability determine who has access to your email inbox—just like you have a right to determine who has access to that box of old love letters from high school. By owning the server, all requests for data have to go through you (and/or your lawyers), and any confiscation of the physical hard drives on which your emails are stored requires a search warrant for your home. And unlike with email stored in the cloud, it will always be obvious if and when the police seize your email server.</div>
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But, of course, none of that stops the government from getting your server if they want it... it's just that in this one case you'll know about it. </div>
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And for what tradeoff? Well, there are some pretty big ones. If you're not particularly skilled and experienced with online security issues, your personal email server is almost certainly significantly less secure than the big companies that have strong security teams and are constantly making it stronger and on the lookout for attacks. If you're that good, you're not learning about the issue of hosting your own email server for the first time in... Slate. </div>
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The article insists that it's a myth that running your own server is a security nightmare, but I've yet to see an online security expert who agrees with that even remotely. Even the comments to the Slate piece are filled with IT folks screaming about what a bad idea this is. </div>
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In the end, this seems to be an issue of tradeoffs and skills. If you're quite skilled with online security and you think the government might want secret access to your email, then maybe in some limited cases, it might make more sense for you to run your own server -- though, even then you're exposing yourself to being hacked by the government too, because, you know, they do that kind of thing also in some cases. Otherwise, you're almost certainly opening yourself up to a home IT nightmare and a lot more trouble than it's worth for significantly less security. </div>
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In short, even if you're not Hillary Clinton, running your own email server is a bad idea. And if you're just now getting the idea from Slate... then it's a really bad idea.</div>
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bc fjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06844211277061808602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7762694749925621666.post-55424340847234675282016-08-28T14:24:00.001+02:002016-08-28T14:24:54.752+02:00Video Game Industry Embraces Internet And New Business Models: Others Should Pay Attention<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We talk a great deal around these parts about new business models at both the macro and micro level. Individual experiments and successes, as well as failures, are both interesting and instructive, but a good macro-level look at how entire industries can function in a digital marketplace should be equally useful. With that in mind, Chris Dixon has an absolute must-read post on Medium on the lessons other industries can learn from the PC gaming industry's success in recent times. </div>
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It's worth noting before we start here that the past five years or so have been chock-full of hand-wringing over every potential danger to the PC gaming industry you could imagine, from casual mobile games to piracy. And, to some extent, I can understand that fear. After all, PC gaming has perhaps lower barriers to entry than other entertainment mediums, making competition more heavy, while the average consumer of PC games is likely going to be more familiar with the ways of piracy and the technical workarounds to DRM than the average music or movie consumer. Too bad for all that fear that, as Dixon's article notes, the PC gaming industry has enjoyed healthy growth over these past several years (something like 50% revenue growth since 2012). Much of that has to do with the innovative ways gaming companies have found to do business.</div>
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Even if you have no interest in video games, if you are interested in media, you should be interested in PC gaming. Over the past decade, PC gaming has, for a variety of reasons, become a hotbed of experimentation. These experiments have resulted in a new practices and business models — some of them surprising and counterintuitive — that provide valuable lessons for the rest of the media industry.</div>
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Those experiments will sound quite familiar to the Techdirt reader. They include free-to-play models, with game extras being sold to gamers. They also include the development of strong and convenient selling platforms, like Steam and GOG.com. The so-called "freemium" model is particularly well done in PC games, in part because many of those games respect gamers enough not to use the model to break the integrity of the game itself.</div>
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The PC gaming world has taken the freemium model to the extreme. In contrast to smartphone games like Candy Crush that are “free-to-play,” PC games like Dota 2 are “free-to-win.” You can’t spend money to get better at the game — that would be seen as corrupting the spirit of fair competition. (PC gamers, like South Park, generally view the smartphone gaming business model as cynical and manipulative). The things you can buy are mostly cosmetic, like new outfits for your characters or new background soundtracks. League of Legends (the most popular PC game not on Steam) is estimated to have made over $1B last year selling these kinds of cosmetic items.</div>
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Medium also goes on to point out PC gaming's latest foray into money-making in the form of live events. In what will sound familiar to anyone who has read our posts about the music industry, live gaming events are fantastic revenue generators, especially as they've become massively popular in the past few years. </div>
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Add to all of this the relatively permissive attitude in PC gaming circles that companies have towards mods of their games and you have a recipe for violent adoption and the willingness to buy by the gaming public. Mods make games more attractive to wider audiences, increasing purchases. Some mods indeed become their own games, increasing purchases. Most game companies encourage this modding culture, generating good-will within the consumer-base. No other industry does this as well.</div>
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Contrast this to the music industry, which relies on litigation to aggressively stifle remixing and experimentation. Large music labels have effectively become law firms devoted to protecting their back catalog. Sometimes this means suing their peers, and sometimes this means suing communities of users. The end result is a strong chilling effect on new experiments. Almost all new music-related tech products are minor variations of preceding products. It’s too risky and expensive to try something genuinely new.</div>
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And finally, there is the embrace of crowd-funding. Crowd-funding has been adopted in virtually all entertainment mediums, but I struggle to see any of them doing crowd-funding as well as the PC gaming industry. From experiments done by household PC gaming names like Tim Schafer, to diverse tiered-rewards for funding, to the willingness of some to forego offers from traditional game publishers to go the crowd-funding route, PC gaming is full of these success stories. </div>
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The point of all this is that new and innovative business models can work for other industries as well. There's nothing unique about the PC gaming industry that won't translate over to some degree for music, movies, television, etc. They just have to try.</div>
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bc fjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06844211277061808602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7762694749925621666.post-12964827988694769742016-08-28T13:59:00.003+02:002016-08-28T14:01:20.890+02:00This Week In Techdirt History: August 21st - 27th<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This week in 2011, the mainstream press was waking up en masse to the fact that the patent system was terribly broken, with even the Wall Street Journal joining the fray. The patent system was, of course, getting in the way of health care, and attempts to convince Silicon Valley that software patents are great were unsurprisingly unsuccessful. Amidst all this the most notable patent battle going on was, of course, the one between Oracle and Google — and this was the week that we got our first whiff of the side-fight over API copyrights that would end up becoming so important.</div>
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This week in 2006, we had several early discussions about things that would grow to become major subjects of concern. There was the fact that content takedown laws were sneaking censorship into the traditionally censorship-proof internet; there was the RIAA following in DirecTV's footsteps and starting to automate the process of sending out mass copyright shakedown letters; and perhaps most perniciously, there was the quiet fallout of a Supreme Court ruling that told courts not to rush to issue injunctions over patent infringement: companies began exploiting the now-well-known "ITC Loophole" to route around the courts and ban a competitor's imports. Meanwhile, we all waited to see who would buy YouTube, and the platform's recent MySpace-esque branded offerings led us to incorrectly speculate that News Corp. might be the answer.</div>
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This week in 2001, Windows XP was beginning its takeover of the PC scene. Bluetooth was all the trendy rage, but some were declaring it dead on arrival while others defended it — not that the world's wireless visionaries really had any idea what to expect (except, perhaps, more wi-fi security breaches). Oh, and remember when computers only came with one little branded sticker on the outside, proudly declaring the Intel processor and nothing else? That all started to change this week when IBM adopted the same strategy and opened the floodgates.</div>
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Adding machines have a history that dates back to the 17th century, but they didn't really become useful and popular until the late 1800s. One of the two main trailblazers was the machine patented by William Seward Burroughs on August 25th, 1888. His company would go on to become what we know today as Unisys — and his grandson would become an author who helped define the beat generation.<br />
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Seriously, whatever's happening to the left must be just spellbinding.<br />
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WHAT IS GOING ON OVER THERE?<br />
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bc fjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06844211277061808602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7762694749925621666.post-7559273165583440302016-08-28T08:18:00.001+02:002016-08-28T08:18:27.739+02:00Supreme Court Approves Rule 41 Changes, Putting FBI Closer To Searching Any Computer Anywhere With A Single Warrant<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The DOJ is one step closer to being allowed to remotely access computers anywhere in the world using a normal search warrant issued by a magistrate judge. The proposed amendments to Rule 41 remove jurisdiction limitations, which would allow the FBI to obtain a search warrant in, say, Virginia, and use it to "search" computers across the nation using Network Investigative Techniques (NITs). </div>
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This won't save evidence obtained in some high-profile cases linked to the FBI's two-week gig as child porn site administrators. Two judges have ruled that the warrants obtained in this investigation are void due to Rule 41(b) jurisdiction limitations. (Another has reached the same conclusion in an unrelated case in Kansas). The amendments recently approved by the US Supreme Court would strip away the jurisdiction limitation, making FBI NIT use unchallengeable, at least on jurisdiction grounds.</div>
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(b) Venue for a Warrant Application. At the request of a federal law enforcement officer or an attorney for the government: </div>
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(6) a magistrate judge with authority in any district where activities related to a crime may have occurred has authority to issue a warrant to use remote access to search electronic storage media and to seize or copy electronically stored information located within or outside that district if: </div>
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(B) in an investigation of a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5), the media are protected computers that have been damaged without authorization and are located in five or more districts.</div>
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The DOJ claims the updates are needed because suspects routinely anonymize their connections, making it difficult to determine where they're actually located. Opponents of the changes point out that this significantly broadens the power of magistrate judges, who would now be able to approve search warrants targeting any computer anywhere in the world. </div>
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The real problem, though, is this: there's no significant Congressional opposition (save Ron Wyden) to the proposed amendments.</div>
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“These amendments will have significant consequences for Americans’ privacy and the scope of the government’s powers to conduct remote surveillance and searches of electronic devices. I plan to introduce legislation to reverse these amendments shortly, and to request details on the opaque process for the authorization and use of hacking techniques by the government,” said Wyden. </div>
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“Under the proposed rules, the government would now be able to obtain a single warrant to access and search thousands or millions of computers at once; and the vast majority of the affected computers would belong to the victims, not the perpetrators, of a cybercrime. These are complex issues involving privacy, digital security and our Fourth Amendment rights, which require thoughtful debate and public vetting. Substantive policy changes like these are clearly a job for Congress, the American people and their elected representatives, not an obscure bureaucratic process.”</div>
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Worse, the amendments will be adopted if Congress does what it frequently does best: nothing. Congress actually needs to take action to block the amendments, but seeing as it only has until December 1, 2016, to do it, it seems highly unlikely that it will make the effort to do so -- not during an election year and certainly not during the annual struggle of approving a budget. </div>
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On the bright side, Ron Wyden is generally pretty good at mobilizing opposition, even when there appears to be little support for his efforts. We can also expect a variety of civil liberties groups and activists to start pushing Congress to "opt out" of the proposed changes.</div>
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bc fjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06844211277061808602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7762694749925621666.post-27438887043761221382016-08-27T22:39:00.000+02:002016-08-27T22:39:11.118+02:00Remember When Cracking Groups Said Denuvo Would End Game Piracy? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yeah, Didn't Happen</div>
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As you may recall, earlier this year a well-known hacking group that specializes in cracking PC games made the bold prediction that cracking games would no longer be a thing in another year or two. Contrasting with what seems like the neverending trend concerning DRM in software, 3DM stated that the software industry had apparently found its unicorn in a DRM called Denuvo, which was increasingly elongating the time between a game hitting the market and the crack for it becoming available. A practice that usually took days or weeks was suddenly being measured in months, pushing to a year. 3DM made the case that this amount of time and effort to crack a Denuvo-protected game made the practice too costly and, more importantly, that the DRM software was being updated and getting so good that it might essentially become uncrackable.</div>
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This prediction, of course, flew in the face of the history of DRM and the speed with which it has always been defeated, leading me to be more than a bit skeptical of the prediction. Skepticism well-founded, it appears, now that Denuvo appears to have been neutered in the days since.</div>
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Early this month, a ‘Scene’ group called CONSPIR4CY properly cracked an iteration of Denuvo that had been protecting Rise of the Tomb Raider (ROTTR). The news had many pirates extremely excited. While undoubtedly a momentous occasion, ROTTR had been released in January, meaning that in theory CONSPIR4CY might have worked on the crack for six or seven months, a lifetime for most pirates. Furthermore, half a year’s head start is huge for the title’s developers in terms of sales, so without doubt Denuvo had done its job.</div>
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Yesterday, however, there was a new development which might represent a more worrying chink in Denuvo’s defenses. With a lack of fanfare usually associated with some of the Scene’s more mature groups, CONSPIR4CY (a reported collaboration between the CPY and CODEX groups) released a fully cracked version of puzzle-platformer ‘Inside‘.</div>
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Inside, by the way, was released on July 7th, meaning that even if work on the crack had begun on that very day, a Denuvo-protected game had been unlocked in a matter of weeks. It's a return to normal, in other words. Or it will be, if CONSPIR4CY can duplicate this with another recently released game protected by Denuvo software.</div>
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So all eyes now turn to the brand new release of Deus Ex Mankind Divided. If that game is quickly cracked by CONSPIR4CY, Denuvo could be coming out in a cold sweat. In the meantime, others are also attempting to dismantle their empire.</div>
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At which point the handsome amount of cash these game developers will have paid for Denuvo might as well have been doused in gasoline and lit on fire. This brings us back to my original reaction to 3DM's original prediction that DRM would eventually stamp out piracy: that ain't how arms races work. I was actually hoping that the game industry had found its DRM unicorn, because then we could start getting some solid impact numbers as to how its use might increase sales in the absence of piracy. Unfortunately, Denuvo instead was just another rung on the arms race ladder.</div>
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And that brings game publishers back to the question that they have faced for the past twenty or so years: is it worth sinking money into what is at best temporarily-effective DRM, or is that money and effort better spent figuring out how to connect with their fans and giving them reasons, and business models around which, to buy their products?</div>
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bc fjbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06844211277061808602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7762694749925621666.post-61428295510353714502016-08-27T22:35:00.000+02:002016-08-27T22:35:08.672+02:00France Passes Copyright Law Demanding Royalties For Every Image Search Engines Index Online<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Disruptive Competition Project is detailing yet another bad copyright law change in Europe -- France, in particular, this time. Called the Freedom of Creation Act, it actually passed a few months ago, but people are just beginning to understand and comprehend the full horror of what's happening. Basically, it will now require any site that indexes images on the internet (i.e., any image search engine) to pay royalties for each image to a collection society.</div>
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How would this work? When an image is published online, the reproduction right and the right of communication to the public of this image shall be transferred to one or more collecting societies appointed by the French government. Online communication services “reproducing and communicating to the public images for search and indexing purposes” shall have to obtain a license from those collecting societies to index images legally. The license fee will either be based on the revenue accruing from the exploitation of the service or be a lump sum fee.</div>
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Of course, this makes no sense. In the US, thankfully, multiple cases on things like Google Images have found that indexing the images and showing thumbnails is clearly fair use. But that's not how it's going to work in France. </div>
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This seems particularly pointless on any number of levels. First, image search engines aren't "publishing" any works, they're just indexing what's already online and showing people where those images are. Second, if people creating works don't want them indexed they can just use robots.txt. And, yes, someone else might post those images elsewhere, but that's no reason to blame and charge a search engine. But the bigger issue, honestly, is that it's hard to see how this sort of system actually helps content creators at all. Does anyone honestly believe that the money this collection society collects will go to the people who created the indexed images? Remember, copyright collection societies have a very long and very detailed history of abuse and corruption. They collect lots of money, but they're not so great about paying it back out. And, as the Disruptive Competition Project points out, this is particularly problematic in this case, where both jurisdictional questions and just basic logistics make it almost impossible for the collection society to accurately distribute funds:</div>
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Moreover, the territorial scope of this measure is unclear. Are the rights of reproduction and communication to the public transferred to a collecting society when an image is published on a French website or on any website? Is the measure based on the nationality of the works? In practice, this measure may claim ownership of the billions of pictures uploaded everyday globally – even though the huge majority of those pictures are published today for personal use by the close-to-3-billion smartphones’ owners, not expecting any revenue. It is also worth noting that a sizable number of those pictures is published under a Creative Commons license that usually refuse remuneration in return, for example, for attribution. Therefore, this measure would override the choice made by users publishing under such a license – and more generally, would deprive rightsholders of the choice between licensing their pictures or not. </div>
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Even worse, there is no realistic way for collecting societies to redistribute the revenues from the license fees accurately and fairly to billions of rightsholders all over the world. The relevant collecting societies won’t attempt to contact all French rightsholders (when close to 70% of French citizens above 15 years old have a smartphone!), let alone all global rightsholders. In practice, the money will be split between the relevant collecting societies and the few rightsholders affiliated to those societies, who – as we say in France – won the “Jackpot”.</div>
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It will be worth following to see how this plays out. If France does follow through and a collection society actually goes after Google, it does make me wonder if Google might pull out the nuclear option yet again and shut down Google Images in France as it did with Google News in Spain, when the Spanish government passed a similar tax on news aggregation. </div>
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Once again, like so many of these laws, this seems to not be so much about copyright as it is about taxing Google.</div>
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