Comments on: Lars Ulrich is a music pirate – Metallica are hypocrites

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:04:45 +0000

@Tristan: Wow, someone with common sense and an actual memory of the facts of the Metallica v. Napster debacle that doesn’t speak like a blindly-following fanboy. Well done.

@ncaissie, Dave Parack: You’re idiots.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:05:00 +0000

@Tristan:
Have you not learned by now that Parrack simple regurgitates one-sided topics he has read elsewhere, merely massaging the wording a bit and throwin in bit of his own flAme bait opinion?

By: Triston McIntyre

Triston McIntyre — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:45:45 +0000

Dave, perhaps you should research your claims a bit more and use even the slightest amount of common sense before you go writing flame bait.

First, though many people like making Metallica out to be the baddies who ruined the party that was Napster, Metallica and Lars have openly admitted the main problem they had with Napster making their music available wasn’t that it was being distributed and shared for free. The main issue was that their new album was being distributed PRIOR to its release, and prior to finishing, because someone in the studio had leaked an unfinished copy. They didn’t want their newest CD misrepresented. I’m in agreement with them that protecting their image is more important than protecting CD sales, which was the real point at issue.

IF you were to understand that, you would see that Lars downloading his own band’s album isn’t in any way hypocritical. In fact, you might even take from it that Lars has a sense of humor. Since the Napster debacle, he and the band have at times made jokes, such as asking for free copies of Guitar Hero, that illustrate their own humorous attitude to their negative image on file-sharing.

Furthermore, are you really going to say that there is anything at all wrong with someone downloading their own product for free? He produced it. He created it. He wrote the music. To say that he shouldn’t be able to “share” his own creation is laughable.

Page views are nice, but stay away from flame bait if you don’t know or understand the whole issue.

By: Aramando

Aramando — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:16:55 +0000

Come on – rather hyperbolic title, don’t you think? Ulrich may have technically broken laws by doing this, but I don’t think anyone could raise a genuine moral objection, just as they could not do to anyone who downloads a digital copy of a recording they already have in their posession. And since what Metallica originally railed against was people helping themselves to copies of their music they had no entitlement to (since they were not paying for them), there’s no hypocrisy here whatsoever. You say Warner own some of the rights to this record, and this is almost certainly true, but do you actually think the band haven’t been given their own physical copies of the finished record?

By: ncaissie

ncaissie — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:54:14 +0000

I wonder if people could use this in their defense now?
If I was the Napster guy I would turn around and counter sue the bastard.
I stopped listening to Metallica.