Gee, who'd have seen this coming? Research shows that many iPod owners are ripping songs from CDs (maybe their own, maybe somebody else's) and/or downloading them from illegal file-sharing sites rather than buying them through the iTunes online store.

Will success spoil Banksy? News that the British "guerilla artist" has been embraced by Hollywood may not be good for his cred. As much as his origins in graffiti (which, let's face it, is vandalism plain and simple) worry me, I have enjoyed some of his more recent ploys - like smuggling a "cave painting" of a shopping trolley into the British Museum. There's also some interesting stuff on his website.