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iLOVENZB
03-06-2009, 11:09 AM
http://torrentfreak.com/images/deathmagnetic.jpgMetallica’s Lars Ulrich ‘Pirates’ His Own Album
March 05, 2009

" "It’s been nearly nine years since Lars Ulrich became one of the most
vocal opponents of Napster and the generation of file-sharers it
spawned. Not one to speak about something he has no experience of,
Ulrich has just admitted downloading his own album, Death Magnetic, and
it was “bizarre”."

"In April 2000, Lars Ulrich launched his vocal campaign against
file-sharing service Napster. After discovering that Metallica’s entire
back catalogue could be found on the service he could hardly contain
his anger and by July 2000 he was testifying before the Senate
Judiciary Committee.
Of course, Napster was dead and buried a long time ago but thanks in
part to Ulrich, the destruction of the service led to the creation of
many others, most of which carry the entire back catalogue of Metallica
to this day - along with that of every other band in the world with a
respectable following.

So, when Metallica’s latest album ‘Death Magnetic’ hit the
file-sharing networks last year, it seemed like business as usual when
the band’s label, Universal, canceled an interview (http://torrentfreak.com/metallica-interview-canceled-after-pirate-bay-row-080914/) with a Swedish newspaper after their reviewer admitted he got his copy from The Pirate Bay.

However, the once vehemently anti-p2p Ulrich came out with a
softened stance. “If this thing leaks all over the world today or
tomorrow, happy days,” he said. “It’s 2008 and it’s part of how it is
these days.”

Now, just a few months later, Ulrich has admitted that following
years of aggression against file-sharing, he has actually just tried it
out for himself. In an intervew with Eddie Trunk of VH1’s “That Metal
Show”, Ulrich admits that last year he ‘pirated’ his own album after it
leaked onto the Internet.

“I sat there myself and downloaded ‘Death Magnetic’ from the Internet just to try it,” he said (http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=115407).
“I was like, ‘Wow, this is how it works.’ I figured if there is anybody
that has a right to download ‘Death Magnetic’ for free, it’s me.”

Ulrich went on to say that he and half a dozen friends were enjoying
a bottle of wine at his house and used a file-sharing client (the name
of which eluded him) to download the album.

“We found it - this was like two or three days after it leaked. I
was like, ‘You know what? I’ve gotta try this.’ So we sat there and
thirty minutes later I had ‘Death Magnetic’ in my computer. It was kind
of bizarre.”

Welcome to the 21st century, Lars - although the same ‘bizarre’ stuff went on in the last century too."

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TinkerBell
03-06-2009, 01:36 PM
I don't understand how he wouldn't understand how filesharing works if he hates it so much. If your going to be an activist about something shouldn't you at least know about it. My husbands always telling me not to bitch about something I know nothing about. Maybe these words should be passed onto Lars Ulrich.

Bovda
03-06-2009, 04:51 PM
Lars Ulrich is and always has been full of shit.

mbucari1
03-06-2009, 05:10 PM
I don't understand how he wouldn't understand how filesharing works if he hates it so much. If your going to be an activist about something shouldn't you at least know about it. My husbands always telling me not to bitch about something I know nothing about. Maybe these words should be passed onto Lars Ulrich.Look at environmental and animal rights activists. It's pretty clear that knowing what the fuck you're talking isn't a requirement for any activists.

Funkin'
03-06-2009, 05:25 PM
People's thoughts and opinions change sometimes as time goes by.

Good for him. He's probably been addicted to file sharing ever since and has been filling his hard drives with countless albums.

Overlord
03-06-2009, 06:11 PM
I don't blame Lars for being angry that his hard work was being distributed for free, but if he'd understood what the revolution that downloading music was (that's what the revelation was, the speed and ease in which he could acquire an album off the Internet), he could have put his energy to much better use trying to get the music industry to come up with a new distribution system instead of trying to squash P2P.

PanicAcid
03-06-2009, 06:31 PM
http://www.citizeneconomists.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/piracy.jpg

need i say more?

mr. nails
03-06-2009, 08:11 PM
fuck him