The more I look at my own use of home broadband the less I'm attracted to it. It seems to me that my limited use - email, a bit of web surfing and the occasional game - is costing me a huge amount of money each month. If I'm seriously asked to pay a premium to cover downloading of material by other people then the whole thing becomes even less attractive. Add in the hassles of preventing or dealing with viruses, malware, computers crashing, constant terrifying stories about people inadvertantly clicking on some dodgy site and getting hauled to jail (ah, hyperbole), identity fraud and all the rest of it, I start to wonder whether the whole "computer and home broadband" thing is worth it for me at all. I'm an IT manager (so granted I get computer access all day and wouldn't miss it at home that much), but people like my poor old Mum who has never so much as seen a computer running other than in shops are less and less likely to ever get anywhere near a computer. This kind of thing just alienates people further.

Now that's what I CALL a slow news day.