Super Toast said:
Hopefully, Lars Ulrich won't try to sue everyone for no reason.
No reason, eh?
Anyone who really, truly believes that the Napster lawsuit was unjust is very, VERY naive. Until you create something and suddenly everyone has access to it FOR FREE, you probably wouldn't understand. As Lars himself said: "It's not about money for me, do I look like I need the money? I'm fine, thank you."
It was about KILLING the underground movement of music.
You know how Metallica got rolling?
Travelling all over the state of California, sharing a single $8 plate at an all you can eat buffet (even sharing the fork) because they had no money, playing at shows and trying to sell their demos. That's how they got started. Those demo sales gave them money to continue doing this.
Eventually, they exploded.
Now, imagine if you're an up and coming band these days, during the age of music piracy. You really think anyone is going to buy your demo when they can just hop online and download it for free?
Where are you going to get the money to continue touring and promoting yourself? You're NOT. The truly creative bands, the bands that have promise will die because of this.
Instead, we're given bands like Nickleback and the like that are swooped up by the music production warehouse CEO because they can sell their image, then all of their songs are written by some dudes sitting in front of computers and all they have to do is travel around and lip sync.
So, before you go blaming Metallica for ruining your precious Napster, just remember that your precious Napster probably ruined the music industry forever, and that Lars obviously saw that coming - since he lived through the hard ships that up and coming bands have to go through to get noticed.
