Love A Canticle for Leibowitz!

Robomatic, a prequel is like a sequel to a story, but set before the story happens rather than after it.

Keberoxu, torrents are a way of downloading films that rely on many people sharing the same file, so that it can be downloaded in small parts from many servers, resulting in a fast download.

However, as Joe Offer points out, they are often used for distributing malware — malicious software that can harm your computer. Malicious people (or organisations, who knows) send .exe files and Mac .dmg files disguised as individual films or books or music, and poor souls click on these and lose information or have their computers taken over and used for heaven knows what.

I can't understand why film and TV and music distribution companies don't actually make a safe network and use the torrent method to distribute their work and get paid for it.

Last week I saw a box set of Father Ted (funny Irish TV series of the 1990s) in a local Oxfam, and pounced on it and sent it to my elderly brother, who lives abroad and had never seen it or even heard of it. He rang me in a panic and asked how to watch it: his laptop has no DVD slot, and his TV doesn't have a DVD player.

If it were possible to download and pay for this old TV series, at the same kind of price as I paid in Oxfam (it cost me a fiver), I'd be only delighted; I could put it on a flash drive and send it over to him and he could watch it on his laptop. But it isn't. Big gap in the market.