One can imagine my dismay when I received an email from my web platform, Typepad, informing me of the following: "We have recently received a valid request under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act from the copyright holder of certain material that you have posted to your weblog. The copyright holder has said that you do not have permission to use this material. Please delete the following content as soon as possible". Now, I can't really blame Typepad - they are just doing their job. What irritated me first was that the complainant - probably Tori's record company Universal Republic - didn't contact me directly to remove the content. My details are clearly visible on my website, and they could have emailed me directly or even entered into a dialogue with me. Secondly, I was streaming these songs - they were not available to download. And thirdly, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that I was threatened with is a copyright law in the United States (the European Union has its own acts which are not entirely the same). Typepad is an American company and my site is hosted on servers in the Silicon Valley (probably) but I am a British citizen and governed by those laws.