The day after last week's inspiring protest against overreaching anti-piracy laws, the U.S. Department of Justice demonstrated that they don't need those laws, anyway.  They just went ahead and unilaterally shut down Megaupload, the world's most popular cyberlocker.  Rumor has it that similar sites...

You know Megaupload. It's one of those sites you sometimes encounter en route to download stuff. Ads pop up, and you try to avoid purchasing a premium account, even though if you'd just give in then your download would be done by now.

Megaupload is different from Rapidshare, Hulkshare, and...

Last week, Atlas Sound (the solo project of Bradford Cox, also leader of the critically acclaimed band Deerhunter) released four free volumes of Bedroom Databanks in as many days via the Deerhunter blog....

Though he is the preeminent trending topic, it was the first and probably last time I'll ever tweet about Justin Bieber from the Free Music Archive's account. But I just had to on the occasion that multiple major labels...