Avast, me hearties! John Borland reports on CNET News.com that Pirate Radio is coming to the Internet. While the Librarian of Congress has reduced the royalty rates for Web broadcasters considerably below what the recording industry wanted, it is still too much for small webcasters. As a result some stations are giving up and there are developers creating software for running up a pirate flag.

While the technology discussed in this article would make it harder to track down the broadcasters, the Internet isn't like radio: they will get caught if the recording industry cares enough to catch them. Why not try talk radio?