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My god. When no-one was looking, this week New Zealand finally got its first free legal music download service. It's called Digirama and I only found out about it through an ad (not for the service, but for Creative's new portable audio device) in this month's PC World. OK, it's not perfect (limited range of music so far, WMA format only) but the tracks are just $2.49 each and I successfully burned a couple of songs to CD for my 7-year old. And what's more, they play perfectly in the ancient ghettoblaster in his bedroom. Oh - the songs were the latest by A Simple Plan (whoever they are!) and The Darkness, who I really quite like now. Hey, it's cheaper than buying CD singles and it keeps my conscience a lot clearer.