Segment 1 — The Hook

In the spring of 2003, Barbra Streisand filed a $50 million lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court to force the removal of a single aerial photograph showing her cliff-top Malibu residence. The image had been taken as one data point among 12,000 others in a public project mapping California’s eroding coastline and had been downloaded only six times before the legal papers arrived. ...

AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.