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hour away from now back to the u.s. capitol for the second part of the. now here frequent here in the show you know that copyright in force made by the entertainment industry can be pretty out there right it can seem like the product of so weird side by authoritarian dystopia lawmakers suing little girls for downloading a song shutting down web sites advocating for bills like so we can't even play short music clips on the air without consulting our borders first let's go back in time for a moment right when ironically these are really an entertainment companies were dealt a blow by the courts and this was nineteen eighty-four of all the years the supreme court ruled the d.c. ours were legal and see that your entertainment executives argue that video would kill all the video star so they sued sony in a bid to crush the v.c.r. and stephen croft on behalf of universal and disney argued that sony created

a billion dollar industry based entirely on the taking of somebody else's property in this case copyrighted motion pictures each of which represents a huge investment by the copyright owners now fortunately for universal and disney the supreme court didn't buy the argument they went on to profit handsomely off of the home entertainment industry although thanks to hollywood's brilliant legal minds and now a new consumer entertainment technologies at the heart of another legal battle this time broadcasters so what exactly does it do and take a look at this. a new york based sort of called aereo just launched its streaming t.v. service here in new york basically area lets you stream and record all of the stations that are available for free over the year right now the area of service which is called dollars a month only works on the safari browser and i phone and i pads but the company expects to roll it out to other browsers and android devices sometime soon so it's really straightforward there's a guy who displays the shows that are currently on the air and those coming up and

you can just kept on the show to watch it all recorded. so bruce keller a lawyer for and b c a d c fox c.b.s. and other broadcasters is asking a federal judge in new york to stop aereo because allegedly it causes plaintiffs to lose control over that is that nation of their copyrighted programming disrupts their relationships with licensed distributors and viewers and the service their right to decide how and on what terms to make available and license content over new internet distribution media that sound familiar to you not only does it mimic the arguments put forth by hollywood in one thousand nine hundred four but these broadcasters sort of sound like bad side by villains. because it's close to the. i would start wars now

they might not be on the dark side but it is an attack of the legal clones and both cases enters a vigilance aster are asking uncle sam to stop a technology that loosens their grip on the media and aerial claims that its tiny antennas are no different from regular ones furthermore broadcasters could actually benefit from aereo it would allow their advertisements to reach even more consumers but broadcasters contend the aereo should not be allowed to rebroadcast their content for example they charge cable companies for the reproduction of network t.v. shows sometimes they threaten to withhold rights unless cable companies pay more to show reruns so legal experts are between two minds here especially considering the judicial system has recently left wired called host a trail of dead startups and new technologies like napster seat steve i v t v there's a few aspiring technologies of the supreme court deemed illegal and even when you start a sort of clear legal they could be driven into bankruptcy by all the lawsuits like

of it website below us now fortunately for aereo supporters the company is backed by former fox executive and the apparent barry diller should be able to survive protracted legal battle but unlike the newer star wars movies consumers probably won't end up too disappointed with ariel or it with aereo case if the broadcasters win it evasion typically wins out in the end even with a court side against it take napster for example record companies may have won the battle but they do lose the war is not through co-founder bill bales pointed out in two thousand rather than focusing on how to distribute music online a took up arms in court systems around the world against various file sharing platforms i tunes fill the void as a result so consumers really want to be able to watch t.v. on their mobile devices and it would be nice to have the option because streaming is sometimes very slow it can get choppy and the option will be available to them eventually it's baffling though even the broadcasters haven't just. offered to buy out area right as you might say stop historic lawsuit they must but even if they

don't and area is shut down this could be another case of the courts killing off an aspiring young let me urge the courts to remember the spirit of nine hundred eighty four and of the constitution's copyright laws which says that limited funds and exclusive rights should be given to innovators for the purpose of encouraging the quote progress of science and useful arts which we must easier without the courts favoring massive corporate interests. well here's something you don't hear every day just yesterday shareholders of citi group actually voted no on a fifteen million dollars pay package for the bank's chief executive and it now all the vote is binding it was made possible things are part of dodd frank that mandated the public companies have a quote say on pay vote to express their opinions on compensation so we have to ask are we finally seeing some occupy wall street style of motion make its way all of their shareholder echelons maybe not considering that only two percent of called

invasion plans were actually voted against last year so unfortunately doesn't look like it's a trend it's not a movement it's just a one off slot in the face of big banking which makes you wonder why isn't everyone doing it so earlier i caught up a change you were host of the young turks and i asked him just that. all right well mike you're part of the story was when i found out that you know doesn't actually mean anything but like all the it will take it under advisement of ok are we sitting here become hundred fifty five million dollars who are tanking our stock forty four percent last year oh it ok so oh thank you so much for voting you know now clean up go home right now why does it happen it's because we're incredibly soft on the bankers because they've captured our government it's the most obvious thing in the world you know the obama administration bill dodd frank is the one who . played. ball by god ladies and gentlemen we've got oh he said you realize afterwards we didn't get anything you can still do whatever the hell they

want i want to have to be brought up the party but it doesn't actually matter non-binding vote too because that was the other thing that i found battling you know put i guess we also have to ask because the whole point of this is that shareholders actually have a say in the company who's running the company what kind of rewards they get but so then we think of who it is that these shareholders are you know. basically who are these people that are making the vote because if it was average joes i think we would see a lot more nose. so you know you know the funny thing is only the guy who is screwed is that riccio because a lot of these shares or our pension funds for example one of the organizations that voted no was fun in california and those if you see shares going down it's usually patients that are holding it because these guys do a lot of financial shenanigans and the guys who have the hedge funds private equity instead of they make all their money and then whenever there's somebody is going to take a beating oh you look at all your pension money you said before you write so you

know we had no say in any of this but think about the an easy part of the shareholders are the owners of the company and if you cared about capitalism you would see obviously the owners should get to decide what they pay their employees like their c.e.o. i mean but we've now gotten to such a perverse state in america but we don't really have councils and it's progress is like me that are arguing in favor of capitalism and then you've got republicans exerting saying no no no capitalism does no good we can't have pretty markets you know we need you know bid contracts etc and we can't have the owners of the kind of companies actually controlling the you know we need to be sure that the c.e.o.'s who are by the way following us a ton of money to political donations are the ones that actually get to decide their own. he adds a weird twist in a world that we're ending. but i mean the reason that you know we bring all this up to you is that unfortunately it seems like the worst thing that's what happened to

any banking c.e.o.'s so far is a no go like this right there have been criminal prosecutions you and i spoke about this million times but we have really seen the conversation start to shift at least a little bit in the media from the politicians if we look at the vote on things like the buffett rule all right this idea of increasing the fairness and our society i was curious where you think that's going to go after november of two thousand and eleven you know how much of this is just campaigning rhetoric and how much of that really stays around post-election. yeah i think almost none of it. look the republicans you know what you're with them they're going to take a dangerous one hundred percent there's not an iota of doubt about that in fact they'll give them tax cuts and they'll do you regularly there by me he and other financial debacle much more likely but when it comes to president obama what does he do you know we it's not like there was any tough regulation dodd frank was a joke and it's not like we increase taxes at all so you know as i hear you know

president obama telling me about how he's going to raise taxes on the rich excuse me but i don't believe it because he had four years to do it and he didn't do it he found every excuse oh you know i had to do a compromise and i had to do a nuclear treaty and you treated it like ninety nine percent of the politicians are all in favor of that was your compromise though you wanted to remain keep the bush tax cut so i have no faith that any of this is going to get fixed out well you know i finished it because tim geithner treasury secretary of course was just saying the end of this year we're really going to see a test of government to see if they're even capable of governing because we have so many tax cuts that are expiring because so many decisions on the budget are going to be need to you know need to be made but that's the last i think a critique of what the president's going to have to do you and more of you know of course pushing this responsibility on to congress but so do you think that you think that the farce that they've already proven they can roll up their incompetence. well alone and let me decide for him greater for you because when he

says a test of our own government. what he's saying is it's a test of how much we're going to cut from the middle class and keep the taxes for the rich now line why soon ok because at the end of two thousand and twelve if they don't do anything actually all the tax cuts expire which would be terrific now i'm of preschool conservative i want to balance the budget if you want to balance the budget you let all the tax cuts expire for the rich for the middle class for everybody ok but they're not going to do that he's not going to let those tax cuts expire so when he says all we have to be adults and it's a test of government you say it's a test to make sure that we don't let the tax cuts expire and instead what we do is we cut from the middle class the medicare medicaid etc so it has the the last person you should trust in washington d.c. tim geithner well clearly there are not that many people we can trust in washington

d.c. but you know another thing that i've spoken a lot about what about the role that the media plays in office i mean you would i find it so frustrating right that nobody has been held accountable for the this is going on and a lot of the time to even throw take the piss sticks out there and say i know that you had a couple words to say about erin burnett and what you call her defense of the rich that i want to hear more about it i mean is there is erin burnett really the bad guy or is a c.n.n. the bad guy you know that hires there and gives her a show and puts her out there as an unbiased news anchor. yes go to this is not a problem of just erin burnett she just happens to be an easy symbol of that because she takes every opportunity defend the rich to defend the system to defend the government to defend the pentagon or you name an establishment and erin burnett will be out front defending it but it's definitely not just her it's i the c.n.n. is part of the problem too it's not just them it's almost all the mainstream media

but c.n.n. is a perfect example of it first of all they will parrot republican talking points as erin burnett did of mitt romney's talking point they said all the buffett rule all the only reasons for forty seven billion dollars a drop in the bucket it's nothing meanwhile the spent days talking about the g.s.a. scandal which is eight hundred thousand dollars now the g.s.a. scandal is wrong people should be fired over that but eight hundred thousand dollars is really important but forty seven billion dollars is irrelevant it's a drop in the bucket but it's republican propaganda and you'll see c.n.n. repeat that over and over again and in a best case scenario they're neutral to the truth so mitt romney's tax plan is a gigantic benefit to millionaires and billionaires in this country that's not disputable it's his plan you do the math on it it's a matter of numbers as a matter of fact c.n.n. reported that way though and you say well you know the republicans say this and the democrats say that i don't care what they say tell me what the numbers are and they won't do it because if they showed it to you then you would see that mitt romney basically only represents the top one percent of this country and c.n.n.

would consider that non-neutral to report those actual statistics and facts yeah the numbers don't lie get me started on this g.s.a. thing. you got forty seven billion dollars how about all of the corruption all of the waste that we see when it comes to contracting or are worse than broccoli rabe but there's eight hundred thousand dollars a person raise it as is whatever and thank the passionate about jane thanks so much for joining us tonight. we really appreciate it thank you a lot of. sort of comes in i had loads a investigates uren fake evidence and then keeps all the details from south africa have details and are told and cut me off at happy hour one professor uses the smarts to get out of a traffic ticket and prime minister not call and i guess you can start studying russian are going to explain after the break.

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time provide still time award and tonight it's going to the department of justice for failing to seek justice now every night on television the airwaves are just peppered with shows the focus on crime and punishment writer c.s.i. and c.i.s. cold case law and order all leading us to believe in a tiny little clue evaluated by an expert which will catch the bad guy and saw the entire case and even reality based television this idea is often reinforced it's something that hollywood not a real life but a tiny. likely place. but the thing is one of the evidence doesn't lead investigators and prosecutors to the quote real killer one of the forensic testing is wrong and the testimony by experts is exaggerated even worse one of the d.o.j. investigation reveals the forensic evidence used to convict hundreds of people was

flawed and then on top of all that what if the justice department the very people whose entire job centers around the pursuit of justice fails to inform defendants or their lawyers about those flaws leaving potentially innocent people to rot in jail for years that sounds like a hollywood movie starring ashley judd and morgan freeman but unfortunately it is not is the real story that's been playing out for over a decade according to the washington post d.o.j. created a task force to look into misconduct at the f.b.i. lab your questions were raised in the ninety's and it turns out that the inquiry lasted nine years and the findings were never released to the public now it did however was the d.o.j. informed the prosecutors of errors with forensic evidence and they didn't actually bother to tell the defendants or their lawyers and according to the post over two hundred and fifty cases reviewed and it was totally up to the prosecution to deal with the new evidence and over half the time they just kept it to themselves found some of those cases the wires involved didn't even know about the evidence review until they were contacted by the post another case a texas man was executed over

a year after the d.o.j. began its review and they found the evidence used to convict him was faulty and this is the first time that forensic evidence and testimony has been questioned it's certainly not the first time that we've spoken about it here on the show last year we spoke to radley balko from the huffington post about bite mark specialist michael west who was caught on tape tampering with evidence that landed a woman in jail with a forty four year sentence and according to balco our justice system just isn't built for looking back. the criminal justice system puts a premium on so now so once you do that you can exhaust your community very very difficult for you to get a case. in so if the science changes leader or if you know somebody who claims to be a scientist it's leadership to be a charlatan. the courts are still looking to go back into. the problem is new science is showing every day the what we thought was airtight

evidence was actually just smoke and mirrors just last fall the urban institute put out a report that showed the d.n.a. evidence cleared think team percent of the people convicted between the years in one nine hundred seventy three and one thousand eight even more troubling are the findings from national academy of sciences panel it was chartered by congress according to the report expert comparisons of everything from hair handwriting bullet marks bite marks to impressions tire prints even bigger print analysis are all subject to human bias and this is after in courts experts testified about the reliability of those practices time and time again so it turns out that there are no effective standards for examiners laboratories or court testimony i mean really just seems like i'll just let anybody be a forensic consultant and oh wait that's right they will take for example the american college of forensic examiners the american college of forensic examiners the institute is an independent scientific organization serving professionals across many fields. it sounds great right now according to protocol because it was

all it took her to get this to pick it up from the a.p. f.b.i. was four hundred ninety five dollars and a ninety minute online class and an online test so what's being done now one lawmaker is proposing a bill to create a new office of forensic science in you guessed it the justice department which is a really troubling thought and i think the worst part about all of this is the justice department's defense when it comes to not making sure the defendants knew about the faulty forensics or testimony according to them they quote and that their legal and constitutional obligations telling the prosecutors wow so for finding out erfurt finding out of there was also the evidence that was used possibly putting innocent people behind bars and keeping that to themselves the bargain of justice is tonight's top time where. it's time for happy hour and joining me this evening are two producer jenny

churchill and artie when producer andrew blake i eyes and leave us alone blue we actually are actually purple it just well yeah it looks exactly the same with blue crazy stuff like blue i think your color blind all right well we've got to take it or whatever it's really making what i can i'm not sure we're do it do it there is there's a new trend happening with people that are getting fed up with t.s.a. and it's not saying you know don't touch my junk because they take it a little further to calais. the naked man causing quite a stir at the airport in portland oregon calf's a frequent flyer john brennan was protesting the security screening process so they just closed and turned out to things right and i think to go now. like last week a woman make a dead for international airport now we have this guy i think this ok so this might be the next big trend unfortunately this trend involves people you never want to

see naked getting naked in front of you i don't understand violence you make a campaign big enough that you can get like you know what people i think people need to actually hire hot people to get naked for them in protest at the t.s.a. and then maybe people tell you that you need to hide your protest during a. protest or here is to get naked and go to the airport and they take off their clothes to successfully materialize to some. who wouldn't exactly be spontaneous or it is that arab allies yeah it's a great idea whatever i don't think that's kind of the point go right i mean if i go if they're getting naked never on like that than ever and going to be used by the t.s.a. policies we like this this this this dude they were told him to put clothes on it was like just put clothes on and leave and he wouldn't but if you did produce clothes i would have just let him on the plane because that would make it all some guy to sit next to you or you hate sitting on airplanes and it's so cool and you

got a naked guy that would be quite the story that's not a normal guy and that guy that i don't want to be sitting well i mean we've seen it we were going to talk about this on last night so she will run out of time is that the former head of the t.s.a. has had the t.s.a. for three and a half years and he just wrote this whole piece talking about how you know their practices are not good and they need to revamp and they're making mistakes and they're focusing on the wrong threats instead of the right threats and so good more people. you know. ok also yesterday we were talking about what the future might be for space exploration since there was the discoveries last flight and take a look at this a local news story where they actually got to talk to an astronaut. what did you think of the shuttle flying over are you sad to see it again. yes you want to be an astronaut when you grow up yes well you know what we've got a real life astronaut right over here if you vice or even under spiraling astronaut

. well basically what. it was to learn russian out well i think space race is dead i mean i personally think that she gave him the wrong advice i don't think you need to learn russian i continue to learn business and how to be corrupt to make tons of money because this is going private let's be honest i'm glad she did enjoy it i just i just don't believe it anyway you know i'm glad she gave the wrong advice because i don't want they could be. like this is as like a costume like he probably is like homeschooled his mom probably is. ok bill is in this elaborate space ships to go look at a big plane like you know offensive for suggesting that hot people be the ones to get naked only because if you were stupid to suggest that homeschooled people shouldn't be i don't know i was rooming at his home school because there's a fancy cars yeah i'm just going to step right in the desert cut off. by.

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