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Off-Ramp

Comic-Con tries to fight live streaming, but Periscope prevails

Cosplayers Carly Shadrick and Bryan Suarez attend Comic-Con 2015 as Bing Bong and Joy from Pixar's "Inside Out."
Cosplayers Carly Shadrick and Bryan Suarez attend Comic-Con 2015 as Bing Bong and Joy from Pixar's "Inside Out."
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Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.

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Comic-Con tries to fight live streaming, but Periscope prevails

Off-Ramp host John Rabe talks with KPCC's Mike Roe about Comic-Con's attempts to keep people from live streaming convention content. It used to be much easier to police, but the Periscope app, which lets you live stream from your phone, is a game-changer.