Today's no Tomorrow's World, Jim

Poor old Jim Naughtie. Not only does he have to grapple with those uncivilised early starts but the Today show editors will insist on making him read out stories about mystifying technologies. At 6.50am perhaps his mind wasn't fully engaged enough to grapple with the concept of illegal file-sharing. "Last week saw the first screening of Steal This Film, which advocates the illegal free downloading of films and TV programmes using a technique called 'Bit-Torren-tin'." The tone was something akin to William Rees-Mogg getting his head around nu-rave. Still, we feel sure BitTorrent appreciated the airtime.