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Tuesday May 02 11:15 PM EDT
Metallica Speaks: Put Napster out of Business
Industry Standard
Lars Ulrich, drummer for the heavy-metal band Metallica,
suggested that the U.S. Congress should step in to stop
MP3-swapping services like Napster "before this whole Internet
thing runs amok."
Ulrich made the comments, along with many others, during an
hour-long Web chat on ArtistDirect.com, Metallica's first public
interaction with fans since the band became the first to file suit
against Napster.
In addition to suing Napster, Metallica announced today that on
Wednesday it will deliver to Napster's offices in San Mateo,
Calif., the names of 335,435 individual users alleged to have
swapped Metallica recordings on the Internet. The 60,000 pages
of documents include a request that the users be removed from
Napster's system as punishment for violating the band's
copyrights.
The move personalized the Napster debate for many fans, and it
led at least two reporters to wonder if they would be among
those named in the list of violators.
Known for spitting in the face of
conformity and dominant
institutions, Metallica sounded
remarkably like middle-class
parents during the fan forum, as
they argued for government
intervention in order to protect
their retirement accounts.
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