p2pnet.net News:- Metallica earned the enmity of the p2p community when, way back when, co-founder and drummer Lars Ulrich attacked Napster – the original, that is, not today’s version that’s supplied by the Big Four Organized Music record labels.

“My band authored the music which is Napster’s lifeblood. We should decide what happens to it, not Napster – a company with no rights in our recordings, which never invested a penny in Metallica’s music or had anything to do with its creation,” said Ulrich at the time.

Now Metallica has changed its tune, jumping on the corporate download bandwaggon.

“The heavy-metal heroes have announced in a new message that they are taking the bold step of selling their music via digital download by an ‘upstart outfit who we feel may very well have a bright future’,” says the Los Angeles Times, going on:

“The humor is due to the perception of Metallica as entrenched foes of all things downloadable — a reputation earned by the band’s hostile activism against Napster and its file-sharing culture.”

And the ’service’ is Apple’s iPod loader, iTunes.

“LiveMetallica.com offers downloads of high quality soundboard recordings of complete concerts of nearly every Metallica show since 2004 AND free monthly downloads from earlier shows,” says the band’s site.

Also See:
Ulrich – Lars Ulrich, the drummer from the band Metallica, recently testified in Congress about trading music online and the program Napster.
Los Angeles Times – Metallica relents, signs with iTunes, July 27, 2006

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