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John Oliver Improves on CNN’s “Doomsday Video” and Gives a Crash Course in Patent Trolls

April 20, 2015
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cnn, doomsday, john oliver, last week tonight, martin sheen, patent trolls, uspto

John Oliver and the team at Last Week Tonight put up another week of important and hilarious work that shows how deserving of The Peabody Award they really are.

At the end of the world, CNN has had, for years, a video cued up to play us all out. Almost needless to say, it’s not very comforting.

So, Last Week Tonight recruited Martin Sheen to guide us through a much better video to play before the last moments before annihilation. 

Oliver also gave a crash course in patents and the disturbing presence of patent trolls.

When the end of the world will exactly come around is up for debate, but we certainly hope that it’s a very long time from now, but also that Last Week Tonight is still running just like it is now.

Challenge Against Podcasting Patent Troll Taken to USPTO by EFF

October 18, 2013
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eff, patent troll, petition, podcasts, uspto

Challenge Against Podcasting Patent Troll Taken to USPTO by EFF

If you’re not at all familiar, the world of podcasting is in potential danger by what is known as “patent trolls”, people trying to obtain licensing fees off of a patent while they themselves do not enact or produce any such services or products from the very patent they’re trying to profit from. 

Luckily, podcasters have banded together, specifically the Electronic Frontier Foundation and are taking it to straight to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Hopefully, this will be resolved soon, so we can go back to listen comedians get deep with no worry. 

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