According to an article on Slashdot.com, Metallica may release their next album online in a pay-what-you-want scheme similar to Radiohead or Nine Inch Nails recently did. Now, lest anyone forget, Metallica are the bastards that sued Napster users for downloading their songs and ended the brilliance of Napster for the craptacularness of Kazaa, LimeWire, and BitTorrent. They are also the reason the RIAA began suing music lovers for trading songs online and began what turned out to be a slippery slope that gets steeper every day, with Sony recently suggesting that even making a back up of your CDs or putting CDs on your iPod (both of which are legal) are copyright infringement.
Boo-urns on you Metallica.
I’m going with others who were Napster users and daring everyone who is pissed off at Metallica nearly 10 years after they trashed Napster to, if they follow through with this idea, to download the album for free — or for a penny if they force you to put in a price.
Bastards. You cannot decry a medium and then embrace it when other people find away to make money off it while making their fans happy, you assholes!
