Looks like there are versions of the RIAA overseas that are every bit as stupid as what we have here. Witness this gem of a story from Italy:

Internet firm Tiscali has suspended its music sharing Juke Box and accused the European recording industry of being "virtually impossible to work with".

And how is the music industry impossible to work with, you ask?

It took the move after it was told to remove the service's search by artist.

That certainly generated a "wtf?" reaction from me, so I read further down. Eventually, I reached the *cough* rationale *cough* given:

But the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said Juke Box had offered a level of interactvity that breached its licence.

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However the IFPI decided Tiscali "was paying to offer one type of service but was actually offering another very different one".

"Consumers were allowed a high degree of interactivity that breached these rules in many ways - for example, streaming individual tracks on demand," it said.

Individual streaming is "too high a level of interactivity?" - sheesh, darn those consumers for wanting to to find their favorite artists - they might want to *gasp* buy something! I have to say, when you make the RIAA look reasonable, you have a problem...