Metallica wants to cash in on the Net
p2pnet news | P2P:- Metallica is infamous as the band which in 2000 sued the original Napster for sharing music on the P2P networks.
Now, “Having heard success stories about releasing music online, Metallica has decided it wants a piece of the action,” says Soulskill on Slashdot, going on:
“Radiohead, as a pioneer of online ‘pay what you want’ music, has shown the world it is possible to profit by releasing music online, but would not post those profits.”
Adds Soulskill, “I purchased the NIN album, after many years of free downloads of the NIN collection, to help support the band.
“Would you buy a Metallica online album despite their former views?”
Well, would you?
Meanwhile, “You were one of the first artists to sue over copyright infringement and voice concerns over aspects of downloading,” says Rolling Stone to band mouthperson Lars Ulrich (right), going on:
“Eight years later, with bands like Radiohead embracing the Net and yet charting, how has your stance changed, if at all?”
Responds Ulrich:
“We’ve always been fiercely independent and controlling; sometimes to a fault. That’s why we exist and why all these people show up.”
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Slashdot – Metallica May Follow In Footsteps of Radiohead, NIN , April 27, 2008
Rolling Stone – Lars Ulrich: “We’ve Always Been Fiercely Independent and Controlling”, April 22, 2008
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April 28th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Metallica can sell its music any ways it wants to and I am still no going to buy it… they lost my trust with the whole Napster/DMCA debacle, and they lost my interest by choosing a really boring musical direction.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:21 am
I wonder if one could argue that since they are still alive their music isn’t good.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:35 am
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Metallica has been mostly irrelevant for a while now. Maybe someone still cares, but I doubt it.
April 28th, 2008 at 9:54 am
I remember how much Metallica mattered to me back in high school in the late 80’s. I still love the music from that era, but their recent music lacks the passion that made you believe in them.
I don’t bash them for the napster thing, because I would have probably felt the same way, but the mistake they made then, and are still paying for now, is failing to realize that their REAL fans never stopped buying the CDs, even if they were downloading. They also forgot that they themselves found out about new music by sharing tapes with their friends. I don’t believe that the Cliff-era Metallica would have ever sued Napster. However, by the 90’s, it was more about money than playing music, and to their legions of fans that lived that same life, it was obvious in their music.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Let me get this straight:
First they encourage bootlegging and tape-swapping as a means of spreading their music around. This helps build a much larger fanbase, allowing them to emerge from the underground as one of the most popular and influential thrash metal bands of the time.
Then, twenty years later, they sue Napster for enabling an online version of the very thing that made them famous in the first place.
Now they’re rethinking their strategy, and attempting to cash in on the net, but only because Trent Reznor showed them how it’s done.
Make up your mind, losers!
April 28th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Metallica is who they are: A bunch of parasites with no real talent just a marketing stunt for the stupid who never hear about beethoven or Byron!
As far as I am concerned they continue to masturbate just like the folk at Vivendi Universal, ALONE!
BOYCOTT METALLICA THE BAND OF PARASITES!
April 28th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Hey metallic I don’t think so – you and the riaa can bite me…
you sue you lose….
April 28th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
I will spend exactly $0. Although, I hope they put their music on their site and ask for tips so I can download it a few thousand times so as to artificially inflate their estimate of the number of people who are downloading with out paying. Give them all ulcers.
“Baaaaahhhhhh!!!! We’re being robbed of nothing!!! Help!!!”
April 28th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I was a big Metallica fan back in high school. I stopped listening after they released “And Justice For All”.
I still think “Master of Puppets” was their last good work.
I won’t download or share any of the crap they call music these days.
Primary reason: I think they suck.
Icing on the cake: They made a big stink about file sharing online years ago, and I think they are A-holes for that.
April 28th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
As a metalhead who created a slew of Metallica fans by passing out at least a hundred copies of their albums (at my expense) because I believed in them only to watch them turn on the very fans who made them very rich and famous, I can safely say that I hope their career continues its downward spiral. They were a very important band at one point–pioneers and rebels. They could have made a stand for Napster, and with their clout, they could have changed things for the better, but instead they aided and abetted the criminals who have turned the music industry into a conglomeration of organized crime bosses using lawyers and bought off Congressman to keep talentless hacks on the charts and big prices in the stores.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
say is lars really to tiny as in the animation?
( I NEVER was a fan of them not even before the napster incident so I truely don’t know actually)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIuR5TNyL8Y
April 29th, 2008 at 7:00 am
The hypocrisy is astonishing.