In another story to make me wonder if April Fool’s is coming early this year, Pirate Bay is going to sue the Finnish group the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC) for their anti-piracy campaign that copies the design of Pirate Bay. Not only do they copy the website design, their logo looks like the Pirate Bay ship sinking. Of course, the CIAPC site doesn’t point to any torrents. Instead it points to legal sources of content. Here’s the obviously tongue-in-cheek statement from a Pirate Bay spokesperson: “We are outraged by this behavior. People must understand what is right and wrong. Stealing material like this...

This stunt is already experiencing its blowing-up moment on various ebook and lit blogs, so I'll keep it brief. And to be honest, I can't quite decide if this story—by New York Times tech columnist David Pogue—is a truly important one, or if it's little more than a cute trick. Time will tell, I suppose. At any rate, here's the story: In a column published last Thursday, August 2, Pogue freely admits to having downloaded an ebook copy of a Robert Ludlum novel from a torrent site. Pogue writes that neither Amazon nor B&N nor iBooks, Kobo or Sony was offering the ebook for sale....