Pirates Make Madonna Walk Plank
Never-coy Madonna offered to be one of the decoys used to fool music pirates: some illegal downloads of her new songs actually only contained Madonna herself swearing at the unsuspecting listener. Hackers trashed her site in response, but others have creatively incorporated her flaming profanities in new musical remixes.

The latest battle in the war between the RIAA (the recording industry trade association, which has been taking on illegal file-sharing over the Internet) and those music lovers who don't like having boundaries, has centered around pop icon Madonna.

Earlier this year, Madonna lent her famous voice -- and attitude -- to a set of MP3 files that were placed on the web as decoys. Although the files were made to appear as if they were illegally free copies of songs taken from her latest album, in fact they were the Material Girl herself spouting obscenities (that, if we were to print them here, wouldn’t get by your spam filter). In essence: "What the heck do you think you're doing, taking a free copy of my music?"

The music file sharing community was undeterred, as always. Calling Madonna an "RIAA puppet," hackers promptly vandalized her web site.

Others saw an opportunity to make art from adversity, or, well, obscenity. Dozens of new musical works have been criss-crossing the web -- remixes and "mashups," or musical collages, all containing her now-famous but apparently ineffective harangue.

A Hollywood Reporter article quotes Tech TV's Morgan Webb as saying, "Madonna was trying to put one over on the kids… and they in turn wanted to let her know hat she's not in as much control as she thinks she is."

Hear for yourself at the Madonna remix project, which contains the original file & numerous remixes

Read the Chris Marlowe article from the Hollywood Reporter

Visit Madonna at her web site

Learn more about the RIAA and its anti-piracy concerns