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http://www.riaa.com/PR_story.cfm?id=372
For hackers such as Stallman, the Napster business
model is scary in different ways. The company's
eagerness to appropriate time-worn hacker principles
such as file sharing and communal information
ownership, while at the same time selling a service
based on proprietary software, sends a distressing
mixed message. As a person who already has a hard
enough time getting his own carefully articulated
message into the media stream, Stallman is
understandably reticent when it comes to speaking out
about the company. Still, Stallman does admit to
learning a thing or two from the social side of the
Napster phenomenon.
"Before Napster, I thought it might be OK for people to
privately redistribute works of entertainment,"
Stallman says. "The number of people who find Napster
useful, however, tells me that the right to
redistribute copies not only on a neighbor-to-neighbor
basis, but to the public at large, is essential and
therefore may not be taken away.


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