SOMETIME this month, your favourite pop act will take a break
from hectic festive shopping and singing schedules to review the
year. While this activity may entail some pensive gazing, it will
probably also involve sitting down with a bean-counter and doing
the sums.
WHEN Ghyslain Raza picked up a golf ball retriever at his school
in Canada a few years ago and pretended it was a Star Wars
lightsaber (c'mon, we've all done it), he could scarcely have
believed his actions would be watched 900 million times. Raza, who
is now known as "the Star Wars kid", never intended for his video
to be made public. He later took legal action against his
classmates who had posted it on the net without his consent.