Uh oh.  Looks like Van Halen is coming “unchained.” The iconic rockers have postponed over 30 tour dates following their June 26 concert in New Orleans, according to the band’s rep Anna Loynes. No reason has been given for the postponement, and there’s currently no word on when the shows might be made up. Thirteen [...]

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Hell hath no fury like an activist scorned. The internet collective known only as Anonymous are out for blood in the wake of the government’s shutdown of Megaupload.com earlier today. The group has waged an all-out war on those responsible, attacking the websites of the White House, the Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, the [...]

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Here’s an interesting follow up to a story we posted last week. It now looks like Daryl Hall and John Oates will NOT sue the guys behind that wildly popular Callin’ Oates service. In fact, TMZ says the guys are “thrilled about it”… so far, anyway. Callin’ Oates is a phone number you can dial [...]

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LimeWire is gone.  The popular file-sharing program has been permanently shut down after a federal judge deemed it guilty of assisting users in committing copyright infringement “on a massive scale.” In an order Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood entered a permanent injunction, ordering the service to disable the searching, downloading, uploading or file trading [...]

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Radiohead is on a machine. That mission is to put an end to put an end to record labels that abuse for their own benefit. In fact, the band, along with several other popular artists, recently formed the Featured Artists Coalition, a group whose goal is to end the extortion-like practices of record labels and [...]

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Shiver me timbers! The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s largest torrent sites, now allows you to share links to download files right from your Facebook profile. The Pirate Bay site features hyperlinks underneath of torrents with an option to “Share on Facebook”. Once you post a torrent to your profile, your friends can then [...]

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