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------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Fri, 05 May 2000 13:40:23 -0500 To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: FC: Metallica drummer says Congress should ban MP3-swaps, Napster Send reply to: declan@well.com
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/is/20000502/bs/metallica_speaks_put_napster_out_of_business_1.html
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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