Roberto Maroni - Passion For Music

Passion For Music

In September 2006, Maroni told Vanity Fair that he downloads music illegally and thinks music should be "free and accessible to all". He added that authors should still be able to stop their work from being widely distributed on the Internet. Maroni said his confession was intended to spark a discussion in Parliament about changing Italy's copyright laws, which are among the strictest in Europe.

Maroni himself is also a musician, playing keyboards in the "Distretto 51" soul band from the 1980s.

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