Colin Greenwood on BBC Two

Colin Greenwood argues over the court ruling against Napster on BBC Two with a Virgin Records executive who welcomes it as a win for copyright. Colin will not defend anyone making money out of Radiohead's music, but says record companies must embrace the technology instead of burying their heads in the sand, as so many have. For the band it has meant webcasts from their studio and videos they shoot themselves for a fraction of the usual budget. The day after they played Barcelona the whole show was on Napster, and three weeks later the audience in Tel Aviv knew the words to the new songs.

Music has an aura a hard drive does not, he says: Nick Hornby would never write a book about what was on his. After failing to download some Mantronix last week, “I spent the next three hours tramping around West London going in and out of record shops.” What offends him far more is big companies merging to build private internets of their own.