The pop world’s most controversial dresser and queen of Twitter and YouTube is launching her very own social network. Aptly named “Little Monsters” (that’s what she calls her fans), the site’s leaked beta screenshots suggest her cult community network closely resembles that of the rising Pinterest .

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Lady Gaga’s ‘Little Monsters’ social network is a Pinterest clone

In the race to take over the world , it seems like YouTube recently took some huge strides: in the past eight months, it’s seen a 25 percent increase in videos (now at 4 billion), and users upload an hour of video per second. Oh, and it had more than one trillion playbacks in 2011.

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YouTube to conquer Earth, has one trillion playbacks in 2011

Over the New Year’s weekend, I was reminded of an old comedy record called The First Family , a hilarious and enormously popular spoof of the Kennedy administration from the early 1960s, pulled from circulation after JFK’s assassination in 1963. A friend in my age demographic had never heard of it. So I attached an MP3 file of one of the tracks I had made from my CD copy and emailed it to him. In the wake of all the SOPA brouhaha, I got to thinking about this exchange. I wasn’t selling the track or album to him; I didn’t send him the entire album; I didn’t post it anywhere where someone else might listen to it for nothing (though someone has, but I’m not telling you where). But I felt dirty nonetheless. And suddenly I understood the urge that led lawmakers to create the Frankenstein monster that is SOPA and its evil spawn PIPA .

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SOPA: Who’s really responsible?

Internet, your blackouts and protesting have worked (for now). Senator Harry Smith, the main proponent of SOPA says the House will be delaying legislation regarding the controversial bill that would destroy the Internet as we know it.

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SOPA and PIPA postponed until further notice

ReBrick is a social network for people who love Legos . It’s not going to be the next Google Plus or the next Facebook or even the next MySpace: no, it’s going to be better than all of these sites, because instead of having to read endlessly boring status updates from all of your whiny friends, ReBrick is just about people making cool stuff out of Legos.

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You can be the latest brick in Lego’s new social network

This is a group of ladyfriends cosplaying as various internet browsers . As you can see, each one is pretty much the perfect personification of their particular browser. “Internet Explorer looks cross-eyed.” Right, like I said. No Wonder Internet Explorer Girl Looks So Depressed [fashionablygeek] Thanks to MLA, who can browse my intra webs anyday. I don’t even know what that means but I’ll let you do it.

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You Better Not Cause My Page To Crash: Girlfriends Cosplaying As Different Internet Browsers

File sharing might feel like a religion for you, but in Sweden, it’s now a church that has been formally recognized by the government. Copy and Distribute!

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File sharing: it’s a religion, at least in Sweden

Get ready to watch the Super Bowl in a whole new way. For the very first time in history, the Super Bowl will be streamed online and to Verizon smartphones in HD. Why watch teams toss the pigskin around on the Internet instead of on the huge plasma? The additional content you get.

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Watch Super Bowl XLVI online and on Verizon phones with bonuses

A Russian website that tracks and publicly posts the IP addresses and downloads of BitTorrent users has revealed that pretty much everyone downloads stuff illegally , including the RIAA, major movie and music studios, and even the Department of Homeland Security.

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Not so shocking: RIAA, major studios are all illegal downloaders

Piracy is tough to quantify. Company A will tell you that it lost X amount of dollars because of Y number of pirates. Comedian B instead made 200,000 sweet, sweet dollars (and counting) by deliberately not doing anything to stop piracy. It turned out well for Louis C.K., but the move is important for more than how it filled his wallet. Louis C.K. made his latest comedy special available for download for only $5. He didn’t upload a torrent of it himself, of course, but he also rejected all of the usual protections, saying, “I made this video extremely easy to use against well-informed advice. I was told that it would be easier to torrent the way I made it, but I chose to do it this way anyway, because I want it to be easy for people to watch and enjoy this video in any way they want without ‘corporate’ restrictions.” In other words, he allowed piracy through his actions, but he was hoping that wasn’t what would happen. People torrent because it’s free and easy. Turns out: easy may be more enticing than free.

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Comedian Louis C.K. made $200,000 by welcoming piracy