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Police in England shut down today what they called “the primary source worldwide” for illegal, prerelease music downloads. The invitation-only “OiNK” site turned out to be run by a 24-year-old dude in Middlesbrough, northeast England. Look, they caught the kid in his bathrobe:

OiNK’s servers in Amsterdam were shut down as well, but here’s an OiNK memorial site if you’re feeling sad.

Def Jam chairman Antonio “L.A.” Reid confirmed his support for Nas after the rapper announced his new album would be called Nigger, saying “Anything Nas wants to do, I stand beside him.” The Rev. Al Sharpton, on the other hand, condemned the choice, saying “We do not need to be degrading ourselves… we get degraded enough.”

Lance Bass describes life in the closet during his years in ‘NSYNC to MTV News, saying he had people close to him sign non-disclosure agreements, and that the band’s management and publicists didn’t advise him against coming out, because, he says, even they didn’t know. Huh.

The BBC has been criticized for allowing a racist remark by Iggy Pop to go uncensored and unacknowledged during the network’s live broadcast from Glastonbury in June. Pop told a story about visiting “Paki shops” in Camden, using a term that the BBC said has now passed out of “polite usage.”