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Bush listens to pirated music on iPod

Thousands upon thousands of people steal music in America, and one of them may be the President of the United States. By RIAA standards, some of the 250 or so songs on President Bush?s iPod are pirated. Bush has made it public knowledge that his personal aide, Blake Gottesman, is in charge of managing his iPod collection ? but articles by both CNN and The New York Times report that staff media advisor Mark McKinnon has downloaded songs such as the Knack?s ?My Sharona? for the President, as well, and made ambiguous how he obtained the files. Blogs and the ?music activist? group Downhill Battle have taken the pirate theory and run with it, and have even registered the domain name SueThePresident.com to give...

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