Dude is the most establishment, greedy, douche in metal. Personally, my Napster account was banned way back when and I got an RIAA letter too! So absolutely fuck that guy. I could probably dig deeper into the shit he’s done but like this was enough for me to never listen to any Metallica song again.
But if we want to get into the whole band, James Hetfield is a fucking douche too. He was proud of the fact that the CIA used their music to torture people because he’s, as far as I can tell, a mega-huge asshole:
“If the Iraqis aren’t used to freedom, then I’m glad to be part of their exposure,” James Hetfield, co-founder of Metallica, has said. As for his music being torture, he laughed: “We’ve been punishing our parents, our wives, our loved ones with this music for ever. Why should the Iraqis be any different?”
Now he’s all, “don’t be political.” He can go fuck himself just as hard. Just a big pile of trash parading around as a human.
I wasn’t around yet when the whole napster thing happened. From what I understand, it was a huge music sharing website. Did it work P2P like thepiratebay? Or was there an actual legal entity behind it? And if yes, how did they profit?
it was a centralized p2p system. you connect to the napster server and announce your library. anyone can search the currently-online library, and then request the files from the individuals. that central search system is what was targeted. decentralization efforts were made by some others, but it was around this time that we got bittorrent anyway.
Dude is the most establishment, greedy, douche in metal. Personally, my Napster account was banned way back when and I got an RIAA letter too! So absolutely fuck that guy. I could probably dig deeper into the shit he’s done but like this was enough for me to never listen to any Metallica song again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica_v._Napster,_Inc.
But if we want to get into the whole band, James Hetfield is a fucking douche too. He was proud of the fact that the CIA used their music to torture people because he’s, as far as I can tell, a mega-huge asshole:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABCDEFG_(album)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/19/usa.guantanamo
Now he’s all, “don’t be political.” He can go fuck himself just as hard. Just a big pile of trash parading around as a human.
i was hoping someone would link chumbawamba
I wasn’t around yet when the whole napster thing happened. From what I understand, it was a huge music sharing website. Did it work P2P like thepiratebay? Or was there an actual legal entity behind it? And if yes, how did they profit?
it was a centralized p2p system. you connect to the napster server and announce your library. anyone can search the currently-online library, and then request the files from the individuals. that central search system is what was targeted. decentralization efforts were made by some others, but it was around this time that we got bittorrent anyway.
Limewire and Kazaa spawned directly from Napster then bittorrent soon after which was decentralized p2p.