Metallica Sueing Napster

Never forget:
http://www.eeth.net/sduff/vids/napster%20bad%20cartoons/napsterbad_se_56k.swf

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I just lost all respect for Metallica...they have enough money already to worry about it. The record industry need to wake the fuck up and realize we are in a digital world and figure out how to sell and market their shit differently.

hehe...

A Napster buff sneaked onto the the rockers' server and replaced the site's minimalist www.metallica.com homepage with the equally minimalist 'LEAVE NAPSTER ALONE'.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/000417-000010.html

This is really fucked up, and the press release shows they dont really have a clue how the internet can work.....
Isnt Metallica the only band registered as a trademark, not a band?

MetallicA is one of the better metal bands, they by far put out the best live shows that gear more to the fans ie. snake pit and their new layout where the whole crowd is around them and they roam around. If all goes well and they sign up those bands (korn, kid rock) for their new tour.. that will be one kickass fkn concert. I just hope they post a date in the texas area.. cause i am there. Altho i did download their mp3's off the net, which got me h00ked onto metallica.. after that bought all their cd's, movies, looking forward to that symphony concert on dvd when its released.. gotta be kickass. While i doubt they will starve with the mp3's being downloaded i still think the money should goto them. Cause they r just so badass.. and in the words of Jason .. "sellouts? EVERY show and city we goto.. yea we sellout"

Yea, I remember in the early 90s when the CD format was just getting big, CDs costed around $10. Singles later cost about $2. I go to Best Buy with a friend and see CDs for $18.

Fuck that, I'm fine with waiting for some songs of my choice to download, of varying artists of my choice, and paying $0.80 for a CD-R that will take full advantage of that extra 300MBs that the record company/band would waste with 10 minutes of silence on the last track.

OK, I'm done.

Boogieman - more power to the consumer.

You can eventually record music from local radio or TV.

This is happening cause so called "artists" are not doing art cause they like making art, but only for money.

Metallica maybe lost few bucks cause of napster. But they got millions of fans with it.

One word... losers er, I mean, sellouts

www.scour.net its like napster for porn! same napster interface...no more trolling IRC and newsgroups for full lenght movies..star wars, american beauty... yeah its wrong....but

-dave

-100000000 karma

OK, I'm not going to read through all this debate, but I saw like the first 30 or so posts earlier today.

I'd say art is something the author/sculptor/lyricist/whatever put his/her own time, energy, and feeling in. Something that relates to them, or that created or defined what/how they are, and is appreciated by others. Most, if not all pop music = not art. I really doubt that Britney Spears or N'Sync or The Backstreet Boys really had these relationships or whatever they're caterwalling about in their songs. Rap = definately not art. Picasso? Art. Eiffel Tower = art.

I never personally like Metallica's music. I wish they'd die off like KISS and all those other 70's and 80's, and some 90's bands. It seems like they've drained all their savings to support their still on-going drug addictions, or made some bad purchases or something, and they're just doing the music now for the cash.

Suing Napster? Easy money. I don't blame them though... if the gaming companies could sue some main distribution company/organization of warez of their games, I'd fully support that. Yes, I do download MP3s... just not Metallica's. :) No, I haven't bought the CDs or singles or tapes of all the bands' MP3s I have.

Er, that's my (somewhat moronic) input. I'm sick so maybe I had too much cough medicine or something and it's gettin' to me.

Boogieman

i have a insert from an old album on my fridge that depicts a cassette tape in the form of a skull+bones with the caption: "home taping is killing music"... hmmm circa "i dont know when", but lets just figure that their guess for the future was wrong....

to read this press-release pap, (if you didnt know any better) you might think that napster was the unholy spawn of the prince of darkness himself... "the moral fiber of common looters..." brilliant... (sigh)

do you know what's killing music? an unstopable deluge of horrible, nameless pop, coupled with a pricing structure that goes up each year, rather than down... 17.95 for a cd with ONE good song? Id rather pay the artist 2bucks for the tune and let the record company keep their cd.

napster, mp3, cdr, dat (god what a nightmare that was, you can guess who killed that format...) etc etc... god nobody picks on IRC for christs sake... its all to do with visibility, and napster's got it...

the best quote i've heard comes from eddie vedder, who when asked what he thought of people downloading his music in mp3 format, (in all seriousness), said "more power to them...."

100z3r
ps. i listen to mp3s AND i buy music every week...
pps. metalica, and their mp3s can kiss my ass, the wankers....

>Since when was it illegal to make a copy of a tape/record/cd for friends?

It's always been, just nobody ever got sued for it before. Really, they only go after the distributors. The thing about napster is it makes everybody a distributor, so they have to go even higher up the chain, to napster itself.

Personally I think they should just start packet sniffing and slapping people with $100k fines, if they're really serious about stopping net music.

i don't see why mp3s are being scolded and whatnot so much. no matter what you do to them it doesn't matter. why? cause in 10 years we'll be on oc3's and whatnot, and everyone will be blaming .wav files for shit.

MP3/Napster and Whatever there is... It's JUST like a Radio in Cyberspace..

You can't stop it... but you can look stupid trying..

New Detonators are out for 98 and 2000

http://www.xs4all.nl/~bmsmit/

Speaking of money the MPIAA makes:

In exciting news this week, the RIAA announced that due to the massive piracy of digital music "ripped" from CD's and made available over the Internet, the music industry lost negative $1,400,000,000 in CD sales in 1999. In fact, the damage was so extreme that the industry shipped negative 90 million fewer CD's than the year before.
Oh, I can't keep up the fake news any more... In fact, the RIAA reports that the music industry - especially non-copy-protected CD's - is booming. Not only did the record industry sell 10.8% more CD's than last year, they raised their income on those disks by 12.3% - so not only are you buying more music, but you're paying more for each disk you buy. Income from CD's alone increased by 1.4 billion dollars last year. So where's the crippling damage from evil music pirates? If they're suffering so badly, why does their profit chart look like Microsoft's?

lost negative $1,400,000,000? doesn't that mean they gained $1,400,000,000? or maybe that was the point

...i meant it uses xing...don't want to start a lawsuit now

Behold the power of selling out.

And calling anything on Napster "art" is lame. Every rip on napster is an ass sounding, underwater fart noise that only a non fh codec, like Xing, can produce.

Sweet merciful crap.... what happened to the stock market! I think I will skip the popcorn at the movies this weekend!

i am going to sue the power company for allowing power to be distrubuted to my computer, so that i could run napster and thus download illegal mp3s.

Metallica is suing over illegal distribution of their intellectual property? Now that's a stretch.

Why don't they just sue intel or microsoft for making devices and software that can run this illegal mp3 music...

freaks