Here's the latest on the RIAA's shenanigans.

Here's the story of how the MPAA stymied Pirate Bay.

And just as I was getting ready to write this little missive, I spotted this, which pretty much sums up what I was going to say.

So. In brief. The entertainment industry continues to learn nothing. They don't understand what century they're in nor do they understand their customers. In my mind, the majority of the so-called "pirates" are people who are, in effect, customers that aren't getting what they want, when they want it, and how they want it, and feel compelled to take matters into their own hands. You can't tell me that somebody with any intelligence wouldn't rather just hit a button and spend some coin to get a quality version of something than to chugachugachuga for hours waiting for something to download. And then it could be wrong, or subtitled in Yiddish, or a live version of the song, or…or…or…or. If somebody's downloading your stuff illegally, congratulations, you have demand down pat. But you twits couldn't figure out the method of supply to save your misbegotten lives.

The one chance–the one chance–you had to put the genie back in the bottle and get ahead of it was Napster. There was one service, everybody used it. You could have embraced Napster and brought everybody back into the fold. But no. Metallica came out suing their fans and the fans fled Napster and went to other services. And then when those got shut down, the amount of services grew exponentially. And now, instead of Napster where everything was centrally located, you're going after websites that don't even have illegal files on them. And making enemies by the metric ton.

So fine. Shut down as many services and websites as you want. You will never stop this. All you are doing is getting people to innovate past you and circumvent you and go deeper and deeper underground. In fact, I want you to keep trying, because I want you both destroyed. Honestly. The more people get fed up with you, the more they'll turn to people like me who actually want to let people play with our stuff. I want the pocketbooks of the entertainment industry to become smoking craters. And I want truly innovative, forward-thinking artists to get a nice market share out of your death rattles.

I have a dream. Won't you all join me?