Paying Metallica for Pirating Their Songs
from the great-ideas dept
Sometimes you see a story that makes you happy you're involved with all this internet stuff. Here's one. Following on Metallica's ridiculous idea to sue Napster and some universities for helping people pirate their music some folks have set up a site that lets people donate money to Metallica if they happen to have some of their pirated tunes.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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It is art.........
These guys are/were tallented. Someone gave my stuff away.....I would be upset, even though I have 6 million floppies, I don't want someone 'stealing' them.
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stfu
$50 to me, a lot.
With that said, metallica has more than enough money already. This cracks me up, these bands go
on talk shows and whatnot, and claim that it's "all about the music", then they get mad when somebody steals a penny or two from them.
It's all about the music, but don't you dare make us lose 5 cents, cuz we'll sue the shit outta ya.
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