The Devil’s new tune

This morning’s Observer column

The devil, famously, has the best tunes – ‘Honky Tonk Women’, ‘I Can’t Get No Satisfaction’, etc. But what do you do when he suddenly starts singing ‘Lead Kindly Light’? This is the kind of puzzle set last week when Warner Brothers announced plans to make over 200 films available for downloading. That’s not the funny bit, though: the real scream is that they propose to use BitTorrent to do it…