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Everybody's here from the Vergecast. We have been running a mini-series on the feed called Pirate Radio. We've already run a story called Dialup about the Mung Community in the Midwest using conference call software to make pirate radio stations.

Another one called Outside the Wire about the community of DJs in Afghanistan that were enabled by the United States Propaganda efforts.

I'm here with Kevin Limer, features editor. What are we doing today?

We are our last story. I'm sad it's coming to close, but this one is about the Pirate Act, which is about a piece of legislation, the level of legislation, that threatens to actually end this era of pirate radio.

What's the threat?

The threat is give the FCC some money and then force them to try and shut these things down.

Things I hate, giving the FCC money and shutting down pirate radio.

All right, cop shit. Here we go.

Living in Brooklyn, if you drive around a little bit and you tune to the station, sometimes you hit a weird broadcast.

Usually everything on the radio is run by some conglomerate playing top 40.

The nice thing about driving on Brooklyn, especially around East Flatbush, is you'll hit a station that's in Haitian Creole playing lots of music you wouldn't hear on top 40.

I think these are Pirate Radio stations, right, beach?

This is one of the few places in the country where you can really see on the dial the diversity of a place.

It kind of feels like people making something for their community, right?

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