If you like ninjas and you like pirates, tomorrow may be just about the best day ever.
Sept 19th is International Talk Like A Pirate Day - and this year, the Ninja from AskANinja plans to “attack swashbucklers and scurvy dogs.”
The Ninja will be chatting live about pirates at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ask-a-ninja-live or http://fans.askaninja.com 3pm PDT/6pm EDT on [...]

It looks like the good people at Soundtrack.net have figured out one of the tried and true ways to get covered by Podcasting News: do something that involves pirates and podcasting.
Their latest podcast looks at the music for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.
In our longest podcast to date, SoundtrackNet talks with Academy Award-winning [...]

 

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According to a poll by Metro.co.uk, a quarter of UK urbanites have downloaded pirated music recently.
Almost half the 18 to 44-year-olds who took part in the survey said they downloaded tunes. While 37 per cent said they had downloaded legal tracks, 25 per cent admitted to downloading illegally in the past six months.
While 91 per [...]

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has announced a new educational program to raise awareness about the value of copyrights among the over 52,000 Boy Scouts in the greater Los Angeles area.
The MPAA worked with the Los Angeles Area Boy Scouts to form a curriculum that met the approval of troop leaders. The curriculum [...]

Jack Black, international sensation, has created a special infomercial on the subject of music piracy.
“Look, super mega rock and roll gods and superstars are just regular dudes like you guys. We punch the clock, we put on the pants and we then we blow people’s minds,” according to Black. “And then these pirates come, [...]

PirateWeather, a service that offers robocasted weather reports for every Zip code in the US, has introduced a new service for MySpace users.
Pirate Weather’s podcasts are automatically generated using text-to-speech software, and available via embedded players or podcast feeds.
If you’re interested in trying this out, send a request with your Zip code and MySpace [...]

Real Networks CEO Rob Glaser made some comments recently that are sure to generate controversy, suggesting that half the music on iPods is illegal and that the music industry made a mistake dealing with Apple.
“The music industry has made a mistake, not by agreeing to Apple’s fixed-price level, which is what gets all the attention, [...]