You wouldn’t steal a milk create. Hang on…

I have a friend that is passionate about the issue of illegal downloads. She believes that it is theft and carries on with emotional arguments about taking money off poor artists and the like.

Personally, I think she is deluded because and has bought the line that the large content providers have been peddling – hook, line and sinker.

I try to explain to her that in the new internet world all the middle men are redundant and this period of pain is necessary to break the old system and that it will eventually go away and we will have content makers and consumers communing directly.

(I don’t actually believe this – I suspect that all the current assholes in the distribution channel will be replaced with one big new asshole in the middle, like a Google or somesuch.)

This friend of mine must have 10-20 milk crates scattered around her home and property. Stolen, the lot of them, without thought. I am going to have fun with this one. She won’t return them to the streets so she will be forced to admit she has double standards.