My niece, T, is staying with us, picking up her new MacBook, and she asked me if she could install LimeWire. I had no idea what LimeWire was and, being distracted with something else, I said sure. When I had a moment, I checked and discovered it's a bit torrent client. And our internet connection was currently being used to download music illegally, something it hasn't done before. I've never had a strong stance against piracy, it was just that it felt like too much of a hassle for me to work out how to find music online, and then came the iTunes music store and the price was worth avoiding the hassle. I think the music companies deserve a huge kick in the arse for burying their collective heads in the sand while there was a revolution going on around them.

So I said to T, more out of interest than anything else, "What you're doing is illegal." She looked at me with utmost shock, aghast. She had absolutely no idea. Her only response, "So why is it there?" A good question to ask the music companies.