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For Episode 187 of Social Blend, we’re joined by special guest Rick Kelvington, responsible for some excellent Doctor Who and Star Wars mashups on YouTube, as well as mashups of other popular movies. Also joining us are Social Blend regulars geek journalist Tom Cheredar aka Tched from Venture Beat, and musician Terr Ciavarra aka Media Nox.

Kicking off the show, we follow-up on the controversy that was SOPA – as the protests died down, the news came out that the Feds had siezed and shut down popular website Megaupload, in strangely coincidintal timing with both the protests and Megaupload’s plans for a new watershed application. And as SOPA and PIPA were shelved, the War on the Internet continued, with eyes turning to the global ACTA agreement and Lamar Smith‘s insidious PCIP Act. Social Blend deconstructs them and gives you a brief overview on these new threats of censorship.

Later in the show, we turn to entertainment news, looking at the recent announcement that George Lucas is retiring from filmmaking. Or is he? We also take a look at some awesome videos of young kids bringing the rock and metal on the music front.

We close out the show with our regular segments, looking at ridiculous “end of the world” stories in the Countdown to the Gutsfuck of Humanity, and our WTF stories of the week. All this and more on this week’s edition of Social Blend!