Z:gnu-www-ja-copyright-versus-community-2000--385d3b-Now, I used to think that mayb/en

Now, I used to think that maybe it would be good enough to allow people to privately redistribute copies occasionally. I used to think that maybe it would be OK if all public redistribution were still restricted by copyright for these works but the experience with Napster has convinced me that that's not so. And the reason is that it shows that lots and lots of people both want to publicly redistribute&mdash;publicly but not commercially redistribute&mdash;and it's very useful. And if it's so useful, then it's wrong to stop people from doing it. But it would still be acceptable I think, to restrict commercial redistribution of this work, because that would just be an industrial regulation and it wouldn't block the useful activities that people should be doing with these works.