The POINT I'm trying to make is that NOBODY STOLE ANYTHING. How in the hell do you steal something in electronic form? Last time I checked, stealing involved taking of something of value. Now, until I can take 100 MP3s, to the store, and buy food with them, how in the hell are they considered a tangiable item you can steal. Money, electronics, silverware, furniture, cars, all of this I can see being stolen. But MP3s? They complain because people ripped them from CDs and traded them through Napster. Ok, like that's new. People have been dubbing tapes and CDs for decades now.
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Fact: Metallica Bans over 300,000 users, some 29,000 swear an oath that they didn't trade illegal MP3s. Of those 29,000, only 3000 weren't allowed access again. The rest of the 270,000 either didn't respond, or used false emails to sign up.
Fact:
(PayLARS.com)Metallica is suing Napster, several universities, and several John or Jane Does (their fans) for copyright infringement, claiming that the "illegal copying and trading" of their music on Napster has robbed the band of its rightful revenues. The suit is seeking damages of $100,000 for each song that was traded, for a total of $10,000,000. Now, that's an awful lot of revenue they claim to have lost, isn't it?
Ok, the universities are out of it for good, but Napster is still going to take some heat. They're going to get 10 mil out of those >300,000 people. Plus, they are threatening to reveal the names (real ones, not screens) of those who did the trading. Gee, what great PR!
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I believe Nikki Stixx of Montly Crue said it best about this issue:
from:
CDNOW News
I mean they're suing their fans to promote their tour. That's fucking assbackwards. What's next Lars? What a fucking cheap-ass Web cartoon to plug your tour? We'd never sink that low.
That's just part of it, but I think you get the idea. The last part's a parody, about the cartoon thing, but its the truth. It's all about publicity really, but how in the hell will suing fans bring them (good) publicity?
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And Metras, where do you see this press release claiming there's no lawsuit? It seems to have disappeared.
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