Like most people, I have a keen interest in taking the pulse of the online music piracy phenomenon, looking for ways to combat the evil-doers that hurt American artists and the multi-national corporations to whom they’ve signed their lives away. For whatever reason, I find most peer-to-peer file sharing services a little annoying and haven’t been able to do as much research and polling as I’ve wanted.

The other day I stumbled across SingingFish while looking for cool stuff to dress up my MySpace page (I’m really 14). It’s a video and audio search engine that differs from Google in that it actually lets you search for files, versus pages that may or may not be related to what you’re researching. In fact, a lot of Google results for these kinds of searches tend to be clogged up with auto-generated banner sites that use SEO to get up in the rankings.

My limited experience with SingingFish so far looks promising. I was quickly able to determine that Sinatra’s music is still being pirated on the web and that Capitol Records and the Sinatra estate will have to step up their efforts to honor his memory by suing a bunch of people. Give it a shot.