Zuzana Smatanová Takes Eastern Bloc Piracy To A Whole New Level [You Ought To Have Known]

The one-sentence summary of this story—"Slovak pop singer rips off Alanis Morissette"—doesn't really capture the full picture here. Oh sure, it's funny because hey, you can already buy ripoff versions of Western movies and CDs in Eastern European countries, so why not go all the way and actually make a wholesale copy of a singer? But if ripping off Alanis was a crime, we'd have to time-travel back to the '90s with a hell of a big paddywagon. Rather, the point here is the extent of the ripoff...

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