File sharing is no different from Jimmy Carr’s clever accounting

At some point during the last 10 years or so, the idea that everything that can be taken for free has become widely accepted. The most intriguing thing about the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal was not the relaxed set of regulations governing the expenses process, but rather the widespread assumption by MPs that if it was possible to put in a claim for something it would be fit and proper to do so – the morality of the claim itself being a moot point.

By James Bloodworth | Arts, Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 2:00 am