Ahoy, matey! LAT article spreads Stern piracy

Who says newspapers are losing their influence? Yesterday the LAT reported on the widespread internet piracy of Howard Stern’s Sirius radio show, and illegal Stern-downloading immediately spiked by around 500%. From today’s LAT:

Illicit downloading of shock jock Howard Stern’s shows increased fivefold Thursday after the Los Angeles Times reported on the broad availability of bootlegged versions of his Sirius Satellite Radio program on Internet file-sharing networks.

“The genie’s out of the bottle,” said Aram Sinnreich, managing partner of Radar Research, a Los Angeles media consulting firm.

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