Even Free Can’t Compete With Music Piracy. illegal downloads of Radioheads new release will probably top free legal downloads this week. at least they didn’t have to pay for the bandwidth.

BBC NEWS | Huge pirate music site shut down. i’m amazed oink lasted this long.

ShareMiner. search sites like sendspace and rapidshare for all your pirating needs.

Schneier on Security: MPAA Kills Anti-Pretexting Bill. these guys are so crooked. via funkaoshi.

Peekvid: Watch Videos Online. an incredibly large source of tv shows and movies which you can watch via a flash player. anyone want to guess how many days this lasts?

Be loyal, kind and don’t steal Movies. the mpaa got the boyscouts to create a “respect copyrights” badge.

sympatico fiber

Bell says they’re launching a “fiber” service in the Montreal area. I’m guessing it’s not all the way to the home so it’s really just “fiber closer to your home”. What I love about the press release is that it essentially promotes rampant piracy…

Optimax, as it’s called, is available in selected areas of Montreal now and is priced at $65 per month for 10 Mpbs or $80 per month for 16 Mbps. Sympatico Optimax includes up to 75 GB of bandwidth usage, or the equivalent of over 15,000 music downloads. Availability and pricing of the service in Toronto will be announced at a later date.

Donny’s Blog - the true cost of piracy. just a couple trillion dollars according to the RIAA. priceless. via funkaoshi.

Slashdot | Poisoned Torrents Plague Mybittorrent. If any of you remember, I actually started a company back in 2002 that actually did just this on other p2p networks. Too bad we didn’t have the drive to completely sell our souls to the RIAA. Also, I’m not a big fan of Slashdot comments, but some of this stuff is pretty funny as it’s people talking about their “right” to download The OC.