For more still, class and money are never left behind. Wherever they go, their clothes, accent and credit rating subtly keep them in their place. But on the Internet, a simple screen name will get you almost anywhere free. Suddenly, motives other than the profit motive begin to come into play. People give you music because they actually want you to hear and enjoy it.
People set up their own Web sites because they actually want to communicate with others.
Chain e-mails pass along jokes for the sheer hell of it. By abolishing mine-thine, the Web also helps abolish the alienating, propertied distance between one person and another. Again, consider Napster. It sells nothing. It asks nothing but a few personal particulars from its subscribers.