I know it's terribly unfashionable to be anything but pro-Napster and anti-Metallica, but I like this quote from Larry Wall about Napster (and its relation to open source, generally seen as the "morally superior" software development method) via MSNBC [via Davenetics]: "Open source should be about giving away things voluntarily. When you force someone to give you something, it’s no longer giving, it’s stealing. Persons of leisurely moral growth often confuse giving with taking." Call me an old-fogey, but I've never installed Napster simply because I have trouble reconciling my desire for free music with my general sense -- developed as a long-time publisher and author -- that, as Linus Torvalds puts it in the same article, "piracy is bad." Please don't email and say that Napster causes you to buy more CDs than you ever would have anyway, not less. I'm sure you're right (although, I'm also sure, for me, it wouldn't, because I don't want plastic discs, I want digital files, which is what I turn my plastic discs into and mostly use them for).