If you want to picture how the Internet should work, think of the Sydney, Australia sewer system, or at least the way it was depicted in Finding Nemo.

Internet service providers play favourites with video, large files and political sites.

A couple of days ago, I was sitting in the offices of a Canadian publisher talking about digital books. I was urging the folks there to get into the business of distributing authors' work online with no digital rights management whatsoever.