It hasn’t been a great week for BitTerrorist haven The Pirate Bay, which was shut down yesterday by Swedish authorities as the company that had put in a bid to buy it got investigated for insider trading. But thanks to their 1337 #k1llz, they’re back online. Hooray (?). In the statement accompanying their return from the Internet wilderness, the site’s masterminds completely fileshared British prime minister Winston Churchill’s “We shall fight on the beaches” speech, which he delivered in 1940. Because, you know, defending peoples’ rights to share Pink Floyd discographies at will is just as important as fighting genocide! Sigh. Anyway, I kind of wish that we could follow the old-school rules of the Internet and ignore them outright for bringing up the Nazis, but I’m going to guess that we’re stuck with them. The statement, after the jump. MORE »
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Pirate Bay Totally Breaks Godwin’s Law While Patting Itself On The Back
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Perez Hilton Moving On To Making People Who Argue In Favor Of Free Speech Look Bad By Association
Perez Hilton has sued Black Eyed Peas manager Polo Molino for battery and–please make sure you aren’t drinking anything when you read this–”infliction of emotional distress” following their altercation after the MuchMusic Video Awards on Sunday night in Toronto. You would think the roffles brought by the blowhardy blogger being able to dish out “emotional distress” as his stock in trade, only to Twitter for the wahhhmbulance when he’s forced to take it (from all sides) would be enough for a news item, wouldn’t you? But thanks to us living in The Age Of Neverending Absurdity, it gets better: The former Mario Lavandiera also wants to defend himself as a crusader for free speech! Because he’s always so accepting of others who he disagrees with, right? His lawyer’s statement after the jump. MORE »
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Anyone Who Thinks The Black Eyed Peas Are Capable Of “Selling Out” At This Point Hasn’t Been Paying Attention (Or Is Super-Fast With Their DVR Button)
Seriously, Seth Stevenson of Slate–you’re just now noticing that the Black Eyed Peas are very interested in increasing the Black Eyed Peas’ bottom line by any means necessary. You dare fling the slightly dated epithet “sellout” in their direction? Do you think that they don’t know that they’re one of the most overexposed acts of this young century–and that they don’t relish every minute of it? MORE »
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Fleet Foxes Dude Tries To Prove To World That He Is Utterly Of The Now, Man
Robin Pecknold, the lead singer of the harmonizin’ indie outfit Fleet Foxes, thinks that we live in the best of all possible musical worlds–and it’s all because of the invention of Napster 10 years ago! The Peck thinks that the download-happy music landscape of today will only make musicians grow more, and not result in people being overwhelmed by the choices they’re presented and burrowing into safe havens where they’re only confronted by things they know they like: “As much music as musicians can hear, that will only make music richer as an artform… I think we’re seeing that now with tons of new bands that are amazing, and are doing way better music now than was being made pre-Napster.” Yes, that’s right: Fleet Foxes are so, so over the whole “music from years ago” thing. They’re all about the now, man! So what records helped the 23-year-old Pecknold come to this earth-shattering conclusion? MORE »
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The Britney Spears Fan Who Rushed Onstage The Other Night Is Ready For His Close-Up
Saturday night, 20-year-old Kyle King decided to make his night at Britney Spears’ concert in Uncasville, Ct., even more special by running onstage during the finale performance of “Womanizer,” unnerving the singer and getting himself arrested. King probably won’t plead “not guilty” at his June court date, though; the kid was so excited by his newfound media notoriety, he posted an animated .gif of himself trying to freak Spears on his MySpace page, on which he also notes “I Stick Out… It’s Funner :].” The fameballs start younger and younger these days, don’t they? A clip of the incident after the jump–if you want to skip right to the part where King tries to get Spears’ crazy, it’s at the 3:10 mark. MORE »
