Loading ...Hey, now you can install links to the super-full-of-itself BitTerrorist haven The Pirate Bay to your Facebook page, thus allowing people you work with, your friends from high school, and your husband’s aunt to see that you recently downloaded a copy of The Fame to your hard drive. Hey, the brave new world of convergence doesn’t always have to be a smart place, right?
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The Pirate Bay On Facebook: Because You Really Want To Marry Your Personal Data To Your File-Sharing Habits
Tue Mar 31 2009 by Maura
Buy A No Doubt Ticket, Get Their Catalog For Free
Wed Mar 4 2009 by Dan Gibson
I don’t think I’m really the target audience for… More »
The Pirate Bay Has A Neo-Nazi In Its Closet
Thu Feb 26 2009 by Lucas Jensen
Right now, the image coming out of places like the Guardian and Wired is that the four Pirate Bay defendants are young, anti-establishment innovators out to stick it to The Man. Except… one of them is a neo-Nazi. The Register’s Andrew Orloski, drawing on information provided by author Andrew Brown, points out that one of the four defendants—Carl Lundström, who allegedly has a 40% stake in the site—kinda doesn’t like immigrants too much.
Maybe It’s Time To Cross Ireland Off “Places I’d Like To Live”
Tue Feb 24 2009 by Dan Gibson
I can certainly understand why IRMA (the Irish Recorded Music Association—basically the Irish version of the RIAA) might frown on sites like The Pirate Bay, but is it really fair for a country’s record industry to demand that any site that has a link to a torrent of the entire Hothouse Flowers catalog be inaccessible to that country’s Internet userbase?
The Pirate Bay Trial Gets Hacked
Thu Feb 19 2009 by Lucas Jensen
The trial of torrent mecca The Pirate Bay went into its fourth day today, and the BitTerrorist haven has been faring well in the trial thus far according to some reports. But that didn’t stop a group of hackers from targeting the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry, the organization representing record companies that’s serving as the lawsuit’s plaintiff. The hacker group “The New Generation” totally thinks the IFPI are the suxx0r, and jacked into their site, leaving this message for the case’s prosecutor: More »
At The Pirate Bay Trial, No One Wins
Mon Feb 16 2009 by Mike Barthel
In 1969, seven people involved on the yippie side of the riots at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago were put on trial on anti-riot charges slipped into the Civil Rights Act of 1968. The defendants decided to “put the system on trial,” as it were, and consistently disrupted courtroom proceedings, which many considered (perhaps rightly) to be a mockery. The net effect may not necessarily have been positive, as Rick Perlstein argues in Nixonland, but while the methods were questionable, the cause was undoubtedly sound. Some 40 years later, we have another trial, with the defendants employing the same sort of tactics, except the cause here is… music piracy. Welcome to your new millennium, everyone!
The Top Five Quotes From Axl Rose’s Big “Billboard” Interview
Fri Feb 6 2009 by Maura
In his first interview with a U.S. publication (and not a message board in some nine years, Axl Rose engaged in an e-mail chat with Billboard’s Jonathan Cohen in which he talked about his frustrations with his label (”at least in regard to the U.S., for the most part I don’t look at it like we have a record company”), the media, the leaks of rough Chinese Democracy mixes over the summer (”Having someone jeopardize your efforts so cavalierly is pretty much a nightmare”), and the difference between then and now (”It was just as ugly in old Guns, regardless of our success”). Speaking of the old days, he also noted that he’s willing to work with Izzy again (yes!), and maybe do some sort of one-shot deal with Duff. And there’s more! A rundown of the juiciest bits after the jump.
You Should Have Appreciated My Efforts To Ruin Punk Rock, You Ungrateful Turds!
Tue Feb 3 2009 by Christopher R. Weingarten
One of the pirates who runs the (admittedly essential) leak blog Bolachas Grátis called it quits yesterday, and his middle-fingers-ablaze response as he angrily stomped from the office was actually one of the best statements on the Internet “economy” ever.
The Web Sheriff: Questions Answered, Questions Remain
Wed Dec 10 2008 by Lucas Jensen
Long have I wondered as to the true identity of the mysterious MP3 blog British bulldog the Web Sheriff. I knew that “he” was British. I knew “he” was often quite funny in his takedown posts. I knew that “he” was employed by a number of the big indies to ferret out leaks in the blog world. And that was about it?. Was this dapper industry constable one person, like Shakespeare, or multiple people, like Shakespeare? I kind of imagined “him” like John Cleese’s sheriff from Silverado: charming at first, but you still don’t want to shoot anybody on his watch like Kevin Kline did.
On The Docket: DMX, Liberace’s Ex, And An RIAA Muscle-Flex
Fri Dec 5 2008 by Dan Gibson
Although the O.J. sentencing probably tops… More »
