Given that most of us get at least some of our music through means that are technically less than legal, it makes sense to stay up to date with the news on music piracy. After all, you don’t want a prosecuting attorney to reveal to the entire world that you’ve been illegally downloading old Limp Bizkit tracks. With that in mind, we bring you the biggest recent stories from the exciting world of digital copyright law (no, really).

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You've just settled in and the lights have dimmed. You've got your Sour Patch Kids, a giant soda—and an empty wallet. But that's okay, cause going to the movies is an experience, and you can't put a price on that.

But then, just as you begin to slip into your cinema-trance, a bluish light catches your eye a few seats away and you remember that no, you're not in "Year One," you're in 2009 and someone is being really rude. Aghhh!

Cell phones in the movie theater, it drives us nuts!

Sparkler thelionking has some creative ideas about how to pass time while you're waiting for your life to start (aka when you finally get your license.) Enjoy! —SparkNotes Editors

Ah, summer.  That wondrous time of year when the birds are singing, school is out, and everybody has their freakin’ driver’s license but you.

You are still languishing in the passenger seat of mom’s Volvo, which, contrary to Stephenie Meyer’s beliefs, is not sexy or cool in any way. But the lameness of the station wagon isn’t the worst part. The worst part of not being able to drive is waiting.

We’ve all received those exhilarating text messages. The ones that tell you your crush is crushing back; the ones that explain that your friend is going to be 20 minutes late, so you should go into the mall and start browsing without her; and the ones that express jubilant laughter via Internet shorthand.

But in our opinion, these awesome digital missives are few and far between. We adore the convenience texting affords (it’s quick, quiet, and requires zero human interaction), but we loathe the messages most people send. Of course, we still have to respond to them, because otherwise our friends will think we hate them, and then they will text our other friends to tell them about it, and then those other friends will text us asking why we hate the friends who originally texted us. Life is hard sometimes. We can help you make it a little easier, though. Below are the types of text messages we truly dread receiving, along with our recommendations for how to handle them.

Hey, did you know that teenagers use their cellular phones to do this new-fangled thing called “text messaging”? Well, the media sure does: all of a sudden, they're inundating us with hysterical rants about “sexting,” worried ruminations on “text-bullying,” and this nervous piece about the 15 year-old who sent a whopping 6,473 text messages in one month.

We love these articles, mostly because they always insinuate that texting will eventually cause the End of the World. But even we are forced to admit that texting can cause terrible problems…in your pants.