Just went to the new site where you can buy Madonna's new single, American Life, for $ 1.45. I'm not a big fan, but the idea of legally getting an MP3 was so interesting that I could have even spent $1.45 from my PayPal account.

Too bad that This recipient does NOT accept payments from International Accounts.

They still don't get it, uh? Oh, well... I'm sure that that mp3 file can be obtained in other ways. I could then burn it on a CD-R purchased in Italy on the black market (see below).

A couple of days ago the Italian government has passed a law that taxes blank CD-R and CD-RW, since they can also be used for evil things such as duplicating music CDs. Apparently the taxes collected will be used to support SIAE, the Italian organization that protects copyright holders.

Beautiful, uh?

I hope that this will push the legendary Italian creativity to find better ways to use music. We have to pay for blank CD-Rs? Cool, we will use the Internet. Thanks.

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