Of course when you hire a famous rebel to front one of your key radio shows, it seems a little hypocritical when you start threatening other rebels with legal action, but that's what's happening over at Sirius. The US satellite radio network are threatening to sue a number of websites and pirate radio stations who are illegally re-broadcasting their Howard Stern radio show.
Stern moved to the satellite broadcaster last month in a bid to escape some of the stricter rules set by US media regulator the FCC. Fans of the shock jock now need to pay to subscribe to Sirius to hear Stern's shows - unless they can access one of the websites, P2P networks or pirate stations making recordings of Stern's shows available for free.
Sirius are now looking to the FCC to help them crack down on the unofficial broadcasts. A number of websites and pirate stations illegally broadcasting Stern have now, apparently, been shut down, though recordings are still prevalent in P2P land.