It had to happen, and politicians around the world should take note of a phenomenon that might take on in a place other than Sweden.
Beleaguered United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is struggling to remain in charge of a Labour Party looking doomed to the opposition benches, should get immediate help from his tech-savvy staff.
The reason for all of this technology-inspired politics - Sweden's Pirate Party has won a seat in the European Parliament.
The group, which campaigned on reformation of copyright and patent law, secured 7.1% of the Swedish vote.
The result put the Pirate Party in fifth place, behind the Social Democrats, Greens, Liberals and the Moderate Party.
Party leader Rickard Falkvinge told the BBC the win was "gigantic" and that the party was now negotiating with four different EU Parliamentary groups.
"People were not taken in by the establishment and we got political trust from the citizens," he said.
Mack-Line readers will recall the publicity surrounding the jailing of the four men behind The Pirate Bay, the world's most high-profile file-sharing website.
Mr Falkvinge said it played a significant role in getting the party the vote.
"The establishment is trying to prevent control of knowledge and culture slipping from their grasp.
"When The Pirate Bay got hit, people realised the wolf was outside the front door.
"That happened one month before the ballot opened so it had quite a rallying effect," he said.
However, we should not be too gung ho about the Pirate Party's electoral success because, after all, it was based on ripping off money from artists, mainly musicians and singers, who are trying to make their livelihood from selling their talent.
Boiled down to the most ridiculous, it could mean one person buying one CD, uploading it to a file-sharing network and leaving the world to download it for no cost.
Copyright law is a bit of an ass in some places, but people are doing their best to prevent theft - in this case, of someone's musical ability.
BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones said many people just did not see illegal file sharing as a crime, however hard the media industries tried to persuade the public that it was just as bad as shoplifting.
And therein lies the problem.
People see it as a right to download music from the internet.
Some of the rules around downloading are truly pathetic and a compromise is needed, sparked hopefully by a rewriting of some of the law.
Of course artists need to have their intellectual property protected.
The success of New Zealand Music Month should leave no-one in doubt about how important our own sound is to our development as a nation and a culture.
But how do we stop people from buying a CD and, in a moment of benevolence, uploading it so that anyone with the expertise and broadband capability can download.
Politicians in New Zealand are embracing social networking sites, including Twitter.
While they are busy pontificating about life in Parliament, they could perhaps shift their attention to dealing with the problems of copyright.
The Pirate Bay founders were fined $US4.5 million ($NZ7.3 million) in damages, far short of the $17.5 million in damages and interest firms like Warner Bros, Columbia Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment were seeking.
It might be a coincidence but nearly every day Mack-Line talks to people who have just downloaded the latest movie from Hollywood, sometimes before the movies have been released in New Zealand cinemas.
Sophisticated conversion software is available to download online to make easy the job of converting the movies into a form you can watch on your big screen television.
Forgetting for a minute music, how does a movie just released in the United States find its way into Dunedin surburbia a few hours later? Would it be possible that someone in the industry is playing the devil's advocate in all of this?A serious rethink of these issues is needed by governments and the industries involved.
