What a strange time to be alive.
Broken clocks, as they say.
Give em the Napster treatment
cool, but Metallica still sucks for what they did to napster.
FIRE BAAAD
Merch good
This is basically the same thing.
Napster had a standing army? Neat!
touche
100%
Isn’t the US govt exempt from copyright or is it just congress?
Works created by the U.S. government to not benefit from copyright protection.
I don’t believe either the government in general or congress in specific have the blanket ability to ignore copyrights held by others.
That’s stuff created by the government however there are also fair use provisions carved out for the government. I’ve had military guys claim the govt has complete fair use which I doubt.
I know congress can ignore copyright for debate and argument. So a member of congress pass around copies of material to other members of congress regardless of copyright.
I’m also pretty sure the government can’t legally start streaming all the Disney movies to federal employees without permission. I’m not sure where the line between these twoexamples is however.
This is because works created by the government used tax money to pay for it; meaning it belongs to everyone who pays taxes. This is why american video games don’t need special permission to use US military hardware names or depictions, but would have to pay royalties for using brands like Winchester, H&K, or Fabrique Nationale.
who gives a shit, I will sic the fashion police on the government
Oh fun. This webiste’s cookie banner only has a “accept everything” button.
Ah, sorry. My adblocker blocks those annoyong popups. I had no idea.
How on earth did it take so long? I’ve been copystruck by these assholes at least three or four dozen times in the 30 years I’ve been pirating … Stuff.
Metallica loves imperialism for the most part, that’s how.
Imperialism is a strong noun. Sure they’ve benefited greatly off the back of US imperialism, but Jesus, condemn us all. It’s not like they didn’t write “Disposable Heros” or “One.” Sure they can be litigious twats, but saying they’re pro imperialism is peak brain rot.
Owning the rights to copy and distribute your own creative works = imperialism
Rofl. Imagine thinking I called out Metallica for taking down Napster alone.
Their shit’s been used in DoD/weapons-contractor videos for decades, and the moment the MAGAts start to turn on Trump over the Epstien stuff, Metallica is suddenly anti-drone, for the first time ever.
Next you’ll tell us NASCAR brought down the Berlin Wall.
And they have expressed their concerns with the military using their music in a terroristic way. - Source
NapsterTM is alive and well
Don’t confuse the awesome free service that once was with the paid brand that’s still around. Still funny all the effort and good-will Metallica wasted to go after one site when plenty of alternatives existed.
No, but when it came time for them to stand up for their rights, they were total dicks about it. There was a right way to handle the situation, but they chose the wrong way.
Policing the speech of other people = authoritarianism, yes.
Copyright is a government-granted (and enforced) monopoly. Under anarchy, no one would benefit from copyright protection, at least not the same way we have it now.
People could voluntarily police their own speech to stay in an association… but I don’t know how/if that would scale.
When reached for comment, James Hetfield responded, “YEAH-YEAAAAH, WHOA.”
After striking themselves this is a close 2nd of funniest Metallica strikes
Good! Fuck letting Nazis appropriate anything into their culture of bigotry and hate.
i have bad news about who metallica has shown themselves to be in the last 5 years
Out of the loop old-school fan- what have I missed about them?
There ain’t shit. These fools are just lying. Don’t forget “Disposable Heros” or “One.” They’ve expressed their views on the military using their music in a negative way. This is from before the culture wars of 2015 began.
i’m trying to find a link after the other poster asked it but they’ve been far more supportive of israel than is appropriate
Link?
Their whole schtick is being as unlikable as possible, not sure why anyone would be surprised.
This is why I never purchased their albums. I copied tapes.
