Mike August
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 19 Dec
Mike August’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're outside counsel just to put them on retainer.
I mean, this is big boy litigation stuff pushed on one company.
I mean, this patent troll, Personal Audio, sued CBS, NBC, and Adam Carolla.
Right.
I mean, where's the parity there?
These are multinational companies worth tens of billions of dollars and us.
No, I mean for them, because this patent was all about delivery of content over the Internet.
That's what their whole claim was, that they had this episodic playlist that if it served content from your server, from your web operation, you owe them a royalty.
And that royalty was whatever they could negotiate with you.
But they didn't negotiate.
They just sued because they knew, with us particularly, that we couldn't afford to litigate.
We're podcasting.
So they figured we're a soft target.
We're just going to roll right over.
And instead, I think Adam took a very hard line, which was we're going to fight it.
We're going to crowdsource the defense.
We're going to rally the podcasters out there, the Mark Marons and the Jay Moores and the Joe Rogans and the Chris Hardwicks into a common cause and get the listeners all involved.
And look what happened.
We crowdsourced a half a million bucks.
And what we did was we took what was supposed to be a heavyweight fight where they're just going to come out like Clubber Lang and knock us out in the first round.
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