International Music NewsFirst up, the UK authorities have finally caught up with the man reputed to be the world's biggest bootlegger - Mark Purseglove. Using bootleg copies of live recordings, he's managed to make £15m over the last 11 years, some of which he used to buy a £530,000 flat in Chelsea, as well as "a luxury lifestyle of designer clothes, expensive cars, homes and holidays." What's great about this story is the label names he released the bootlegs under: Criminal Records, Wanted Man, Masquerade and Not Guilty.

And, in not safe for work news, a couple in Norway clambered onto stage during a performance by the band Cumshots (asking for trouble, aren't they, with a name like that), and proceeded to have sex as a way of showing their support for rain forest preservation. Yes, the rain forests. They're part of an environmental organization called Fuck for Forest, and if 21 year old Leona Johansson is typical of the Scandanavian activists who are members of this group, I think there's going to be a queue about a mile long at their recruiting office this morning.
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