It was their property and it was stolen from them.
It drives me insand that millenials think they don’t have to pay for music. To me, downloading a song illegally is no different than walking into a store and shoplifting. It costs money to produce a quality album.
Artists only receive .1099 for every song downloaded. So if you spend. $0.99 to download a song, The artist only receives about 11 cents. Now divide that by however many members are in the band.
Please pay for music.
I think if you owned the records and other media of songs then obtaining a digital copy is not stealing.
Totally agree with you.
It was the way they went about it back then that pissed everyone off and led to even more piracy. They had a right to be pissy about it, but man did they really get pissy.
Dave Mustang was on everything I ever cared to listen to.
Eventually the music industry caught up with my basic "give them what they want and prosper" capitalistic instinct, stopped suing, and started making big cash with streaming and digital downloads.
right or wrong, ever since Metallica sued Napster, it didn’t matter what they wore, or what makeup they bought on, or how long their hair was, nor how hard their riffs were, they were just bankers and businessmen to me from then on, and no amount of rebellious a lyric can change that perception to me.
Napster baaaaaaaaaaaaaad
I’ve been dabbling in recording video game playthroughs and posting them on YouTube.
I’ve been notified a few times that a particular segment includes copyrighted music,
and I am not allowed to monetize a playthrough that contains that segment.
Even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong (You can just ask him!).
Legally and morally, they were right.
However, it did not end music piracy. Not by a long shot.
And it angered enough people as to pretty much drive the final nail into the coffin of the record industry.
A pyrrhic victory in hindsight.
“There was a time when the streaming thing was kinda weird, and it’s not that great of quality – I don’t care what anyone sounds about modern streaming, all these ‘bits’ and whatnot. It’s never going to sound better than vinyl,” Hammett explained.”
Has Metallica EVER put out an album that sounded really good? To be fair 95% of stuff that came out in the 80s has that bad drum and base sound. But St. Anger is a big pile of wormy dog squeeze, who knows the songs could be genius but who can take Lars drumming from inside a steel dumpster?
And yes he is right about taking music for free.
Freegards
‘Tuesday’s Gone’ (from Garage Inc. 1998)
https://bit.ly/1RS5SWI
I know plenty of hypocrites who flout their free music collection to this day.
Trouble is for me that I think that their pirated recordings all sound like shit.
Give me an LP, studio tape or a gold master CD...or forget it. This downloaded music thing, quality-wise, is horse-hockey.