Speaking to TMZ, David Furnish said that he doesn’t watch football. He uses the convenient excuse of being British to explain his dislike of football, but I’m sure that if Madonna were to just show up at the Rugby World Cup he wouldn’t watch it either.

Fincher famously slammed Madonna over her winning the Golden Globe last week over Sir Elton John. He said, “Madonna winning best original song truly shows how these awards have nothing to do with merit. Her acceptance speech was embarrassing in its narcissism. And her criticism of Gaga shows how desperate she really is.”

The commercial itself is set in a royal court in what looks to be during the renaissance times. The almighty king is played by Sir Elton John himself and the kindly king seems to be holding a talent contest of some sort. The king files through failure after failure only to find the woman played my Amaro who only wants to present herself before the king for “treasure” (Pepsi) after that she proceeds to sing a dance remix of Aretha Franklin’s smash hit “Respect”

Reportedly, Elton John had this to say about Amaro:

“She oozes personality, you can see it by talking to her. She’s very voluptuous. She’s cheeky and fun.”

So I’m sure the numbers aren’t loaded at all.

Regardless, after receiving a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) violation notice from the RIAA, Facebook promptly ejected Audio, an application developed for the social network that allows users to upload MP3s and share them within the site.

In just a week, the app was downloaded 750,000 times. And the RIAA didn’t like that one bit. VentureBeat updates its original article to note that Audio plans to be back online soon, pending some sort of resolution.

Not that copyrights shouldn’t be protected, but it makes you wonder if the RIAA would approve of someone playing music at a party where people who didn’t buy the CDs (okay, the MP3s) could hear it, too.

Don’t ask Elton John how he feels about the whole thing though. His beef isn’t so much with piracy (he doesn’t like it, in case you were wondering), but with the whole darn Internet.

The 60-year-old not sure what appeal, if any, all this technology has, but he is sure that it’s destroying art and music.

"In the early Seventies there were at least ten albums released every week that were fantastic," he told The Sun. "Now you’re lucky to find ten albums a year of that quality. And there are more albums released each week now than there were then.”

Well, there was a lot more acid floating around back then, fewer lawyers, and fewer corporate shills. Not that I would know, but my parents might.

At any rate, John would like to see the Internet – all of it – shut down to the impact it has on art. If I remember the artifacts from the Seventies, though – Velvet Elvis, Pet Rocks, the Osmonds, Shawn Cassidy, polyester, Disco Duck, shag carpet, and men with friggin’ permanents – I’m not sure if we want those days to return.

Oh well, at least we know Elton’s less dangerous than the ol’ RIAA and its teams of lawyers.