"I think there's probably a lot of kids who are downloading stuff off Napster who won't even realize that what they're doing is no different than walking into a record store and taking something off the rack, and that it costs money to make these records. It's a little bit different for us because we play live. But maybe for a young band that just put out their first record and worked really hard on it, and then up it goes onto Napster and they don't make any money... They may not be able to record again. The other thing that's kind of bad about it is that we always try to be... We let people trade tapes, and even when MP3 came along, there were no problems: People can put their MP3 files up on the net as long as there's no advertising and nobody's making money off it. Which is not the case with Napster, because people are making a lot of money through corporate sponsorship and stuff. So you're basically just stealing and putting money in the pockets of somebody other than the bands you're taking the stuff from. So as long as people know that, and then... At that point, my feeling is that, well, it's the mob mentality. Just because there's a bunch of people and you could smash into the store and start looting, that doesn't mean you will. And people don't. Maybe people won't. "

—Trey Anastasio of the band Phish,
from an interview on The Onion's AV Club