Lars might have changed his idea...seems legit. At the beginning of TEH FASTS INTERNEZ, several musicians may have thought that file sharing could actually harm their wallets Now, almost everyone of em has realized that their wallets are still full and even fuller. The only one suffering from it is the goddamn stupid fucking ass licking RIAA. Which could, and hopefully will, disappear one day.
Its funny how years later when overwhelming evidence now shows Metallica were right and people are still not getting what they were fighting against. It wasn't downloading, it wasnt technology, it was the choice of the artists in how they put out their music. Why is this such a hard concept to understand? Napster took what wasnt theirs and gave it away, Metallica give away free music still to this day! The issue was control, not downloading, and every band has the right to where their music goes
@axl409v Its just shitty ignorance like this that really shows just what people were really bitching about, that they were caught out in their true motives..the only thing people really cared about is getting music for free..thats the bottom line and if that means stealing it, then thats what they do...they dont care about the artists, they dont care about the technology or other issues, just plain simple greed..its how society is today and the napster incident really showed peoples true colors
@axl409v Metallica had every right to sue Napster, but the minute they did it, it was clear that they were now a corporate band. I mean, this was a band that used to give out free copies of their albums at concerts in the 80s. They always called themselves a band of the people, and now they were blatantly going against what they stood for. The fact is, that in many countries, music is either overpriced, or hard to get, which is why many download music for free.
@axl409v Also, those that download a band's music are highly likely to go see one of their concerts. IIRC, in today's music, concerts are the biggest source of an artist's revenue. Many people download a couple of albums at first, and then go out and buy the rest of the artist's discography. It's ridiculous to assume that everybody who downloads music are just plain greedy. It's a good way to get a sample of an artist's work before buying their music.
The band lost their connection to the fans a long time ago and I don't think Lars ever really had one with the fans. The truth is, that, nowadays more and more bands are making their money from internet sales than anything from "record stores". Lars realizes, I think, that he doesn't have a choice in this day and age. Unfortunately, Lars has developed an Axl Rose sized ego and can't see beyond his own inflated opinion of himself.
Lars said once that, yes, he hated that people were downloading his music for free....but he said he didn't like when people downloaded it before the song was even released. He doesn't care about stuff that he already released
I was a huge Metallica fan. I wore a Metallica shirt every day in high school, bought all their tapes.. bought them again on CD.. yeah.. that sucked.. but heh.. I was a fan. Went to a few live shows.. etc.. They used to allow bootleg audio at concerts.. I don't know what happened, but I haven't spent a dime on Metallica since they went after their fans (Napster).
Ya'know what? I don't miss them.. they can piss off. Now, 2011... It's like.. Metalli-who?
I totally agree! I lived in the Bay Area when they were getting started and went to a lot of their gigs. They were really something! But I wouldn't cross the street to see them for free today.
Adjustment is difficult. Bravo to Lars for having the intellectual integrity to admit that the sharing of music through the Internet isn't always an insidious affair.
THESE GUYS WERE THE BIGGEST FAGS OF ALL TIME. They were going to make money anyway. Hardcore punk Bands like TSOL never gave a fuck about money. It was all about having fun.
I dont really like Lars but he is not really eating his words here, necessarily. Napster was for free so downloading music doesnt mean you get it for free!
downloading can be cool to a point - if you do not buy physical CD's then you are the douche bags. and Napster was very much in the wrong - they profited from it. it's stealing when it comes down to it - Lars (whom I'm not a fan of) did the right thing - if not things would really be out of hand by now, much worse than it is .
@rojiarkofdeath Did you even watch the video clip? I know you may find it odd, but there are places in the world where you really can't buy a physical CD, because there simply isn't a record shop there to cater to you. Even Lars realizes, a posteriori, that his former position was overly simplistic, as much as yours is. By the way, am I a douchebag too if I just watch videoclips on Youtube, without paying anyone for it? Did you pay to watch this interview? That's what I thought.
As I understand it, bands don't make much off of album royalties anyway. They make most of their money off of touring and merchandising as I have read.
lars is strange. cant they just clone like dave lombardo or something and give him to metallica? not someone who killed the guitar solo for 10 freaking years.
I think Lars is a piece of shit, but he thought he was getting robbed by a bunch of E-thugs he reacted how anyone would have he's changed his opinion so fuck off.
@bluescribblefy You can buy the album on mp3 ;D freeloading someone elses stuff, even if it's not ruining the music industry is a shitty thing to do...not every musician is rich with 100 cars and a massive house anyways, and don't have a big audience because no radio play...that will grow if they continue, but to make it anywhere in music anymore, because of all the money downloading costed the music industry, is extremely expensive
@bluescribblefy You can'tget anywhere without having the resources to make an album though...you can't just expect to start off with your shows and have people coming there as soon as you start...the record sales are the little kick that every musician needs to get the concerts to be the big event
Wow how where the other guys not fuckin pissed at Lars for saying such bullshit. Music is an art form not money and if someone was breaking a law just to hear my band I would be fuckin ecstatic man. To Lars Ulrich FUCK YOU!
Anyone who thinks downloading for free is good doesn't realize that it doesn't just take a few dollars away from the big bands...but record companies lose money, when they lose money, they charge more to record...that affect new bands trying to make it
I think Metallica was pressured and/or bribed by their record label to fight against Napster. If Warner Music Group, EMI, Sony Music, Geffen Records, had come out against Napster, there would've been serious backlash against the industry by fans claiming that the companies were just in it for the money. If a popular band came out against Napster, the youth of the nation would stand behind them...in theory, anyway.
The only thing illegal downloading has done to music is force these musicians to make their money playing live and not relying on over-priced CDs to make a living.
If you can purchase an Iron Maiden T-Shirt from whatever country you're in, you can purchase the CD too. They have singles released for us to get a taste of the music and see if we want to purchase the full product. I purchase music, and I'm proud of it.
you all fuckin suck and a buch of looser who cannot buy a fuckin 18 $ cd's fuckin punkass bitch.... you have to stole it on the net.... GET A JOB OR WELLFARE
@chicorardot I can make you look like an idiot online, but I'm not. Instead I will explain why you sound so fucking IGNORANT. If you pay attention to their originating countries, they are from the Middle East, where Western Music, ESPECIALLY METAL metal isn't available to purchase in disc, vinyl, or cassette format. Therefore, websites like Napster were somewhat a blessing to these men and or women.
@thrash6664 I'm pretty sure they can buy iTunes at $1 a song with all their oil money. They dont censor their internet like China, its all available there. They even have Starbucks.
I'm a huge Metallica fan, but Lars' move against Napster was rather uncalled for. He had no idea that it was bootlegs that helped get his band started in the first place
I wouldn't call him a hypocrite, but he definitely changed his stand on internet distribution, but I think he's only speaking in terms of legal channels like napster (lol), iTunes, etc...
Music distribution should never have been about owning a physical copy of an album. Music is all audio. There is no physical or visual component required to hear great music other than hitting play. Overpriced album sales for a Vinyl/CD to offset production costs is bullocks and shouldn't exist online.
I would not know music like I do now if it weren't for downloading albums for free.. I would be broke and unable to support myself without it, Its a endless debate.. But music is music.. It should never be something to get rich from to begin with.. I'm starting to believe record labels should cease to exist.. I mean look at all the crap in the top ten charts now.. It makes me puke out my ass with frustration
@EyEnOtgAy they have to make the money somehow. the point isnt getting the music for free......thats a criminal offence. HOWEVER what apple has done is the right fucking way to do things.........with itunes you can get whatever song you want for just a dollar a piece allowing you to choose what you pay for. I on the other hand choose to support the bands making the music by buying the albums straight from stores.
@katana1361 NOW ON THE OTHER HAND. i do feel for these kids out in the middle east......my hat goes off to them. but for someone living in NORTH AMERICA..........there is no fucking excuse for hijacking music
lars is starting to look like john lithgow where i used to think he looked like paul mccartney. i guess that makes sense,if 'tallica are the beatles of metal than james and lars are the john and paul. id have to say jason was the ringo,one writing credit on an album? very ringoish
Basically Lars was on the wrong side of history. Period. Unlike those of us who saw the real potential of Napster and the Internet, Lars was a dinosaur defending a quickly becoming extinct distribution model. Given the vast change in distribution that happened in the last ten years, he has no choice but to support it. Otherwise he'd look like a guy believing the Earth was flat despite evidence everywhere to the contrary.
@JimmyDaKoik He has to support it. There is a belief by fans that their band's in it for the music, not the mega bucks. Metallica broke that, coming out looking like mercenaries. Also, when multi-millionaires are thinking about hiring lawyers to sue their fans, many of them kids with no money anyway, it makes them look bad and has no economic sense. I am glad Lars has had a rethink about his position and moved forward.
@JimmyDaKoik - Alot of the bands I like (mostly foreign) I would have -never- heard about without the internet and file sharing. For example: Dir en grey, I got into them in 2003 at the suggestion of a friend online who was obsessed with Japanese Music. Went on P2P and randomly downloaded their stuff and loved it. Flash forward 8 or so years and now they have a massive cult following, albums available thru a U.S. label (no more tracking down $40 imports) and sold out U.S. concerts.
And had Dir en grey's Japanese record label (Firewall Div. / Free Will) gotten all butt-hurt about their intellectual property being freely available to everyone around the world and decided to pull a Lars, they would have been shooting themselves in the foot and killing any chance of DeG's fanbase expanding outside of Japan, so no reason for stateside albums and Johnathan Davis wouldn't have even known they existed so he wouldn't have invited them to play Family Values in '06.
he was always ok with the internet sharing music business what he fucking hated it was that people was downloading music before the album came out stupid bitches!! i hate that oh well.. umm if they did that umm i dnt like their music anymore blah blah stupid motherfuckers fuck you! if you think that way because i know people like that!!
Metallica is very easy to buy, compared to the other 'underground' music. Metallica has the support of one of the biggest publishers which has contracts with most distributors. Then there are this musicians that only publish their music sheet or start their own label to publish their own music...
haha even when youtube and all the hundred sources of free downloading were available, death magnetic sold more than 2 million copies. His band still kicks ass and is the best in the world, and you still get free music. So fuck off and admit that he was right at the time when Napster almost bankrupts the music industry. Now is different.
I think those kids breaking their metallica CDs are fucking stupid. why? because someone else downloaded what you have? and because metallica is super rich and they dont deserve to make more money in what they busted their asses for?
Im pretty sure if you own something and I come and take it from you without your permission whether you need it or not .... YOU WOULD NOT FUCKING LIKE IT. and suing Napster was fucking a great idea.... they were making money off of their site with other ppl shit
very welll fucking said. I love metallica. Im not a huge fan of lars but you got that fucking right. I could tell you because im a musician. and you can have the music and whatever but you have to know how to sell it and promote your band. man.... good fucking point.
@Metayounis there is a vast amount of people from Saudi Arabia that are a white. Same in Israel. Where have you been? there are black Americans there are black Britons etc same as there are white africans and white middle easterns.
@markssite Believe me.. i had business in the middle east, My job made me travel to saudia arabia and i know exactly how people look, and their accents are different.. Believe me thats kinda staged, and besides.. It's not "Ahmid" It's "Ahmed"
VMAXDANIEL- Unfortunately you are wrong. Stealing means taking something that isn't yours. You can't make up your own definitions and hope that it fits. This means you can never steal a film? And who gives you the right to dictate who does and doesn't have creative ownership over their property?
@liamfrantic nah, i just think you're a racist, xenophobic cock and a tool for the manipulators. y did they look 'shifty'? did you see a bulge under the IM tshirt? did they resemble the bush family? or hitler? or what?
@bastardson73 no they were stood there with retarded grins, and there eyes were all over the place, i didnt say anything racist, or anything related to terrorism, or hitler or bush, so erm....yeah you fail
@liamfrantic didnt say anthing racist...? i think thats a matter of perspective;
"those arab guys looked shifty as fuck": many ppl WOULD rightly feel that was a racist statement... its not like you said "those arab guys had retarded smiles"
I am so glad I'm not a musician. You all can say there's no harm in it, but definitely more than half of music is pirated now, meaning the artists/producers get less money for slaving over that track you nicked. At some point, no money will be made and you all will no longer have new music to listen to. (cue the thumbs down and swearing insulting replies)
Well, Shark. All I got to say to you that I couldn't give less than a damn about piracy, and I actually do plan on being a labeled musician. Hell, when I first made music independently, I distributed it for free; it's not about the money, it's about the love.
@Shark7996 No thumbs down or swearing insults here. I just find that comment laughable. In the 80s there were people with banners everywhere saying 'Home Taping Is Killing Music' (google it). The fact is you have to embrace new technology, harness it and learn how to use it to your advantage. Artists today have the largest interconnected network known to man at their disposal, they can make themselves the producer, recorder and artist without all of the corporate hierarchy in between.
@Shark7996 Money was never made by CD sales. The majority of it goes to the store and record company. The REAL money is made from touring and selling your own merch. Bands have been exchanging music for a long time. How the fuck do you think early metalheads around the world found out about other bands? Through tape trading. Downloading music is the new-age tape trading and everyone knows it. The only people who bitch are the ones in it for the money, not the music, and shouldn't be supported.
And now as the RIAA tightens its grip and is going after children and poor people this fucking asshole is "at peace"???? Remember if it wasn't for him none of this would even be the way the way it is!!! FUCK YOU!
the real problem is not napster or sites like it..the real problem is digital music...once the hard drive crushes..or the mp3 evolves in to something else old music disapears....and the only people that have the original music is the record companies..example gnr live at the ritz 88 is not really gnr property is mtv and is not on dvd for some reason...and that's the best recorded live show ever...we have to wait for mtv to get it...that's the problem......
The internet didn't help music it made it saturated, now every douche bag on every corner has a shitty band. And the bands that are actually good don't even get noticed because it's so disposable, a good cd is a worthless as a 1gb flash drive. I can download anything I want but I don't appreciate the music unless it's something phenomenal because I've been desensitized to the artistry, creativity and work that was put into it. My friend had a band and couldn't even give his tickets away.
So for all the lazy people that can't go to work because they're too lazy and think they should get many things for free, here's your confession. By the way, WHO is making money here? That was nappy boy back when that's who.
Using the internet to share/steal pre released music/movies/software ect... is surely wrong but if the material has been issued already i don't see the big deal, Sharing music always happens, before and after napster, how many of you ever borrowed a metallica cassette from a friend(that's how i first found out about them) Remember the bootleg days, pirated copies are what got their name out, i can't remember anyone freaking out about the dual cassette recorders that where sold by the millions!!
Lars might have changed his idea...seems legit. At the beginning of TEH FASTS INTERNEZ, several musicians may have thought that file sharing could actually harm their wallets Now, almost everyone of em has realized that their wallets are still full and even fuller. The only one suffering from it is the goddamn stupid fucking ass licking RIAA. Which could, and hopefully will, disappear one day.
Hack3r91 1 week ago 2
Its funny how years later when overwhelming evidence now shows Metallica were right and people are still not getting what they were fighting against. It wasn't downloading, it wasnt technology, it was the choice of the artists in how they put out their music. Why is this such a hard concept to understand? Napster took what wasnt theirs and gave it away, Metallica give away free music still to this day! The issue was control, not downloading, and every band has the right to where their music goes
axl409v 2 weeks ago
@axl409v Its just shitty ignorance like this that really shows just what people were really bitching about, that they were caught out in their true motives..the only thing people really cared about is getting music for free..thats the bottom line and if that means stealing it, then thats what they do...they dont care about the artists, they dont care about the technology or other issues, just plain simple greed..its how society is today and the napster incident really showed peoples true colors
axl409v 2 weeks ago
@axl409v Metallica had every right to sue Napster, but the minute they did it, it was clear that they were now a corporate band. I mean, this was a band that used to give out free copies of their albums at concerts in the 80s. They always called themselves a band of the people, and now they were blatantly going against what they stood for. The fact is, that in many countries, music is either overpriced, or hard to get, which is why many download music for free.
nri222 2 weeks ago
@axl409v Also, those that download a band's music are highly likely to go see one of their concerts. IIRC, in today's music, concerts are the biggest source of an artist's revenue. Many people download a couple of albums at first, and then go out and buy the rest of the artist's discography. It's ridiculous to assume that everybody who downloads music are just plain greedy. It's a good way to get a sample of an artist's work before buying their music.
nri222 2 weeks ago
At least he isn't like Prince or Bono.
BucksStudent 2 weeks ago
The band lost their connection to the fans a long time ago and I don't think Lars ever really had one with the fans. The truth is, that, nowadays more and more bands are making their money from internet sales than anything from "record stores". Lars realizes, I think, that he doesn't have a choice in this day and age. Unfortunately, Lars has developed an Axl Rose sized ego and can't see beyond his own inflated opinion of himself.
MrROCKNROLLHERE 3 weeks ago
Lars said once that, yes, he hated that people were downloading his music for free....but he said he didn't like when people downloaded it before the song was even released. He doesn't care about stuff that he already released
LinkToon000 3 weeks ago
The info box says ''A few years back'' it was 12 YEARS AGO. Thats more than a few
twiztidlestat 3 weeks ago
Fuck Lars !! Fucking Billy Joel looking mother fucker !
wingnut4427 3 weeks ago
Ahmid is kind of Scary...
jamirosmajicrocks 3 weeks ago
"Truth will out"
-Billy Shakespeare
Lar's tirade against P2P sites showed us he places his money above his music.
alaskanrainbows 4 weeks ago
Al-Sharif is hot!!
nsvelvi 1 month ago
@nsvelvi he look like a zombie
aliihsanasl 4 weeks ago
1:11 \m/
caralhotephoda 1 month ago
I was a huge Metallica fan. I wore a Metallica shirt every day in high school, bought all their tapes.. bought them again on CD.. yeah.. that sucked.. but heh.. I was a fan. Went to a few live shows.. etc.. They used to allow bootleg audio at concerts.. I don't know what happened, but I haven't spent a dime on Metallica since they went after their fans (Napster).
Ya'know what? I don't miss them.. they can piss off. Now, 2011... It's like.. Metalli-who?
dslynx 1 month ago
@dslynx
I totally agree! I lived in the Bay Area when they were getting started and went to a lot of their gigs. They were really something! But I wouldn't cross the street to see them for free today.
alaskanrainbows 4 weeks ago
Adjustment is difficult. Bravo to Lars for having the intellectual integrity to admit that the sharing of music through the Internet isn't always an insidious affair.
Crust218 1 month ago
His forehead just blinded me!!!!!
lewisdsc1 1 month ago
THESE GUYS WERE THE BIGGEST FAGS OF ALL TIME. They were going to make money anyway. Hardcore punk Bands like TSOL never gave a fuck about money. It was all about having fun.
TheNewMusicNetwork 1 month ago
i couldn't agree more with you
mr4METALLICA 1 month ago
I couldn't help but laugh at Lars's fail.
He must be eating crow for this.
TheGrungeGamer2 1 month ago
1:22 Cloud Connected
TJBDBand 1 month ago
Dr. Cal Lightman would have a field day with this interview.
klemzelol 1 month ago
Love his shirt.
DrWatson221 1 month ago
He's Danish
Franckdatankpart2 2 months ago
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you know how you find Lars Ulrich in a hardware store? Just look for the biggest tool.
ruthven78 2 months ago
I dont really like Lars but he is not really eating his words here, necessarily. Napster was for free so downloading music doesnt mean you get it for free!
davis311c 2 months ago 7
@davis311c But he also says the word "share", which implies he himself was thinking about file sharing XD
Hack3r91 1 week ago
Nowadays, tickets are more expensive than a mere CD. I mean do Bands realize that?if more fans LOVE you more tickets to sell then more money.
albeanmagz19 2 months ago
Yeah. I think this guy's a fucking idiot.
cuvautoofficial 2 months ago
downloading can be cool to a point - if you do not buy physical CD's then you are the douche bags. and Napster was very much in the wrong - they profited from it. it's stealing when it comes down to it - Lars (whom I'm not a fan of) did the right thing - if not things would really be out of hand by now, much worse than it is .
rojiarkofdeath 2 months ago 2
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@rojiarkofdeath Did you even watch the video clip? I know you may find it odd, but there are places in the world where you really can't buy a physical CD, because there simply isn't a record shop there to cater to you. Even Lars realizes, a posteriori, that his former position was overly simplistic, as much as yours is. By the way, am I a douchebag too if I just watch videoclips on Youtube, without paying anyone for it? Did you pay to watch this interview? That's what I thought.
morphemeable 1 month ago
Props to the beginning "Cloud Connected" by In Flames coming in at the end.
Kickerinthehead 2 months ago
Scott Ian is exactly right. Its stealing. period.
jobless205 2 months ago
As I understand it, bands don't make much off of album royalties anyway. They make most of their money off of touring and merchandising as I have read.
MrSmittyLongsleeves 3 months ago
@MrSmittyLongsleeves
They do now.
EuchridEucrow1 2 months ago
lars is strange. cant they just clone like dave lombardo or something and give him to metallica? not someone who killed the guitar solo for 10 freaking years.
23HAMSANDWICH 3 months ago
excuse me for asking but what city is that in the beginning?
goldlessbassist 3 months ago
@goldlessbassist it's Riyadh the capital city of Saudi Arabia :)
0rock0faisal000 2 months ago
i download shit loads of music, ive got all metallica's albums though
WikiHeba96 3 months ago
I think Lars is a piece of shit, but he thought he was getting robbed by a bunch of E-thugs he reacted how anyone would have he's changed his opinion so fuck off.
RicoshetSC 3 months ago
@bluescribblefy You can buy the album on mp3 ;D freeloading someone elses stuff, even if it's not ruining the music industry is a shitty thing to do...not every musician is rich with 100 cars and a massive house anyways, and don't have a big audience because no radio play...that will grow if they continue, but to make it anywhere in music anymore, because of all the money downloading costed the music industry, is extremely expensive
capnkdawg 3 months ago
lol!watch the kid left at 0:23
dripwire 3 months ago 6
@dripwire haha he looks retarted ; p
WikiHeba96 3 months ago
@WikiHeba96 He is :)))
GhostriderDuck66 3 months ago
@GhostriderDuck66 but i love him anyway xD
WikiHeba96 3 months ago
@dripwire My reaction was kinda like his face, when I saw his face XD
Hack3r91 1 week ago
@bluescribblefy You can'tget anywhere without having the resources to make an album though...you can't just expect to start off with your shows and have people coming there as soon as you start...the record sales are the little kick that every musician needs to get the concerts to be the big event
capnkdawg 3 months ago
WOW just WOW This from the man who personally went on a holy crusade to rid the internet of down loadable music FUCK OFF
BattlerigsComputing 3 months ago
Wow how where the other guys not fuckin pissed at Lars for saying such bullshit. Music is an art form not money and if someone was breaking a law just to hear my band I would be fuckin ecstatic man. To Lars Ulrich FUCK YOU!
GuitarPlayerGuy1 3 months ago
Anyone who thinks downloading for free is good doesn't realize that it doesn't just take a few dollars away from the big bands...but record companies lose money, when they lose money, they charge more to record...that affect new bands trying to make it
capnkdawg 3 months ago
I think Metallica was pressured and/or bribed by their record label to fight against Napster. If Warner Music Group, EMI, Sony Music, Geffen Records, had come out against Napster, there would've been serious backlash against the industry by fans claiming that the companies were just in it for the money. If a popular band came out against Napster, the youth of the nation would stand behind them...in theory, anyway.
MattBeckstrom 3 months ago
The only thing illegal downloading has done to music is force these musicians to make their money playing live and not relying on over-priced CDs to make a living.
NailgunDeath 3 months ago
@NailgunDeath True that, friend.
KrillinDay59 3 months ago
If you can purchase an Iron Maiden T-Shirt from whatever country you're in, you can purchase the CD too. They have singles released for us to get a taste of the music and see if we want to purchase the full product. I purchase music, and I'm proud of it.
CrAzYbRoS 3 months ago
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thrash6664 3 months ago
you all fuckin suck and a buch of looser who cannot buy a fuckin 18 $ cd's fuckin punkass bitch.... you have to stole it on the net.... GET A JOB OR WELLFARE
ASSHOLES
chicorardot 3 months ago
@chicorardot I can make you look like an idiot online, but I'm not. Instead I will explain why you sound so fucking IGNORANT. If you pay attention to their originating countries, they are from the Middle East, where Western Music, ESPECIALLY METAL metal isn't available to purchase in disc, vinyl, or cassette format. Therefore, websites like Napster were somewhat a blessing to these men and or women.
thrash6664 3 months ago
@thrash6664 I'm pretty sure they can buy iTunes at $1 a song with all their oil money. They dont censor their internet like China, its all available there. They even have Starbucks.
disbsam333 3 months ago
@disbsam333 Of course, these are all recent. The Napster case was in 2001 I believe.
thrash6664 3 months ago
@thrash6664 CRY ME A RIVER !
chicorardot 3 months ago
Lars along with Metallica, are all dead to me.
CLIFF WAS METALLICA!!!!
thrash6664 3 months ago
@thrash6664 cliff waz amazing but waz not a one man band common big !! on c.d.'s or at the show it waz not CLIFF BURTTON WITH metallica
chicorardot 3 months ago
I'm a huge Metallica fan, but Lars' move against Napster was rather uncalled for. He had no idea that it was bootlegs that helped get his band started in the first place
Darkit2099 4 months ago
llllllars
mrduck120 4 months ago
You're to late Lars.
21madmethod 4 months ago
I WANT LARS ULRICH TO PUBLICLY APOLOGIZE WITH METAL FANS AROUND THE WORLD.
caruccio 4 months ago
I wouldn't call him a hypocrite, but he definitely changed his stand on internet distribution, but I think he's only speaking in terms of legal channels like napster (lol), iTunes, etc...
Music distribution should never have been about owning a physical copy of an album. Music is all audio. There is no physical or visual component required to hear great music other than hitting play. Overpriced album sales for a Vinyl/CD to offset production costs is bullocks and shouldn't exist online.
TSteverse 4 months ago
"it's awesome"???? Few years ago that fuck was talking about putting into jail everyone who used internet to listen to his songs....
grzybowestopy 4 months ago
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
IDIOT!
arbide3 4 months ago
I would not know music like I do now if it weren't for downloading albums for free.. I would be broke and unable to support myself without it, Its a endless debate.. But music is music.. It should never be something to get rich from to begin with.. I'm starting to believe record labels should cease to exist.. I mean look at all the crap in the top ten charts now.. It makes me puke out my ass with frustration
EyEnOtgAy 4 months ago
@EyEnOtgAy they have to make the money somehow. the point isnt getting the music for free......thats a criminal offence. HOWEVER what apple has done is the right fucking way to do things.........with itunes you can get whatever song you want for just a dollar a piece allowing you to choose what you pay for. I on the other hand choose to support the bands making the music by buying the albums straight from stores.
katana1361 4 months ago
@katana1361 NOW ON THE OTHER HAND. i do feel for these kids out in the middle east......my hat goes off to them. but for someone living in NORTH AMERICA..........there is no fucking excuse for hijacking music
katana1361 4 months ago
OMG YOU MEAN PEOPLE CHANGE THEIR MINDS?! SHIT! WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT THAT SUCH A THING COULD HAPPEN?!
tallicalad 5 months ago 43
@tallicalad OMG METALLICA ARE FUCKING ASSHOLES,,WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT THAT SUCH A THING COULD HAPPEN???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mdelair420 1 month ago
At the end I hear Cloud Connected by In Flames coming in lol
Kizamime 5 months ago
did here that Core Bitches METAL is gonna grow!!!
redgun26 5 months ago
lars is starting to look like john lithgow where i used to think he looked like paul mccartney. i guess that makes sense,if 'tallica are the beatles of metal than james and lars are the john and paul. id have to say jason was the ringo,one writing credit on an album? very ringoish
ghostwhiskey 5 months ago
Wow... you have no idea why they sued napster... do you? -.-
daberko120ch 5 months ago
vital remains shirt!!!:)
TJmarian 5 months ago
Basically Lars was on the wrong side of history. Period. Unlike those of us who saw the real potential of Napster and the Internet, Lars was a dinosaur defending a quickly becoming extinct distribution model. Given the vast change in distribution that happened in the last ten years, he has no choice but to support it. Otherwise he'd look like a guy believing the Earth was flat despite evidence everywhere to the contrary.
JimmyDaKoik 5 months ago 38
@JimmyDaKoik He has to support it. There is a belief by fans that their band's in it for the music, not the mega bucks. Metallica broke that, coming out looking like mercenaries. Also, when multi-millionaires are thinking about hiring lawyers to sue their fans, many of them kids with no money anyway, it makes them look bad and has no economic sense. I am glad Lars has had a rethink about his position and moved forward.
Mortinium 4 months ago
@JimmyDaKoik True
wargasm58 1 month ago
@JimmyDaKoik - Alot of the bands I like (mostly foreign) I would have -never- heard about without the internet and file sharing. For example: Dir en grey, I got into them in 2003 at the suggestion of a friend online who was obsessed with Japanese Music. Went on P2P and randomly downloaded their stuff and loved it. Flash forward 8 or so years and now they have a massive cult following, albums available thru a U.S. label (no more tracking down $40 imports) and sold out U.S. concerts.
WiiClassic2usb 1 month ago
And had Dir en grey's Japanese record label (Firewall Div. / Free Will) gotten all butt-hurt about their intellectual property being freely available to everyone around the world and decided to pull a Lars, they would have been shooting themselves in the foot and killing any chance of DeG's fanbase expanding outside of Japan, so no reason for stateside albums and Johnathan Davis wouldn't have even known they existed so he wouldn't have invited them to play Family Values in '06.
WiiClassic2usb 1 month ago
@JimmyDaKoik its because lars always was use to going into a tower records and buying the cd
xtremedrummer3600 1 month ago
he was always ok with the internet sharing music business what he fucking hated it was that people was downloading music before the album came out stupid bitches!! i hate that oh well.. umm if they did that umm i dnt like their music anymore blah blah stupid motherfuckers fuck you! if you think that way because i know people like that!!
mr4METALLICA 5 months ago
Metallica is very easy to buy, compared to the other 'underground' music. Metallica has the support of one of the biggest publishers which has contracts with most distributors. Then there are this musicians that only publish their music sheet or start their own label to publish their own music...
omgtkseth 6 months ago
lars ulrich looks like brian peppers
kaileab 6 months ago
0:20 guy on left was on acid!!!!
Hawkeye8u 6 months ago 2
@Hawkeye8u no no no. he have been listening to metallica too much, the brain goes retard
robbantheshit 5 months ago
Is this edited?
EviLReN3 6 months ago
I still hate Lars Ulrich for this.
NeilFraudstrong 6 months ago
1:11 PORTUGAL :D
xNunoMDLx 6 months ago
i never thought i'd see lars with an angry face. until i paused at 0:33 xD
CGDrummer96 6 months ago
haha even when youtube and all the hundred sources of free downloading were available, death magnetic sold more than 2 million copies. His band still kicks ass and is the best in the world, and you still get free music. So fuck off and admit that he was right at the time when Napster almost bankrupts the music industry. Now is different.
estnobcar 6 months ago
@estnobcar thank you finally someone smart :)
mr4METALLICA 5 months ago
In flames cloud connected starts at the end of the clip thumbs up
STEELERSINFLAMES 6 months ago
Wtf? These dudes don't look like arabs O_O
doingitforrthalulz 6 months ago
so he changed his mind and realized that he made a mistake. what a big deal. get over it already
bozzi90 6 months ago
I think those kids breaking their metallica CDs are fucking stupid. why? because someone else downloaded what you have? and because metallica is super rich and they dont deserve to make more money in what they busted their asses for?
Im pretty sure if you own something and I come and take it from you without your permission whether you need it or not .... YOU WOULD NOT FUCKING LIKE IT. and suing Napster was fucking a great idea.... they were making money off of their site with other ppl shit
drummersabu 6 months ago
@drummersabu
Please come and take my agonizing girlfriend. I forbid you.
HurburBurbur 6 months ago
Ahmmm... I im a huge fan of Lars, because of that!
He is a Metal head, since beggining, ALSO he knows how to deal politically , how to make money, how to sell his words, and his band...
Metallica is big, not because of their music and stuff only... but the media also!
And the main reason for that, for sure is Lars Ulrich!
This is all about being smart, and fuck with people's mind =]
Eluryyyyy 6 months ago
@Eluryyyyy metallica didnt have any media till after justive. they got there through word of mouth, touring and realsing classic albums.
to this day they still get fuck all airplay.
Harrysound 6 months ago
@Eluryyyyy
very welll fucking said. I love metallica. Im not a huge fan of lars but you got that fucking right. I could tell you because im a musician. and you can have the music and whatever but you have to know how to sell it and promote your band. man.... good fucking point.
drummersabu 6 months ago
hypocrite
axa88888888 6 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Let's face it we ALL here have downloaded at least 2 Metallica songs for free!!!
motorstorm78 6 months ago
That guy "Ahmid" from saudia arabia, HE DOESN'T LOOK SAUDIAN AT ALL!!!..
Thats all staged.
Metayounis 6 months ago
@Metayounis there is a vast amount of people from Saudi Arabia that are a white. Same in Israel. Where have you been? there are black Americans there are black Britons etc same as there are white africans and white middle easterns.
markssite 6 months ago
@markssite Believe me.. i had business in the middle east, My job made me travel to saudia arabia and i know exactly how people look, and their accents are different.. Believe me thats kinda staged, and besides.. It's not "Ahmid" It's "Ahmed"
Metayounis 6 months ago
fuck lars ulrich.
DeusAeon 6 months ago
lars ulrich, needs no introduction
MetallicaIsWinning 6 months ago 2
Is it me or has the guy in the green tshirt filed his teeth to points?
maggot432 6 months ago
SADUS!!!!
Natedorg911 6 months ago
lars ullrich is a douchebag
mongolenpup 7 months ago
People still don't realize that who gets money from album sales are record companies,bands get rich from touring and making shows.
linegenrou 7 months ago
@linegenrou
I earn 85% of every record sale so I don't really agree with you on that.
Dhanijel1 7 months ago
"I think it's awesome that kids can download our music. As long as they fucking pay! "
Lars Ulrich music Nazi
macgreeny 7 months ago
VMAXDANIEL- Unfortunately you are wrong. Stealing means taking something that isn't yours. You can't make up your own definitions and hope that it fits. This means you can never steal a film? And who gives you the right to dictate who does and doesn't have creative ownership over their property?
dougchoda 7 months ago
Dude, Metallica got angry because people were downloading songs from an upcoming album (St.Anger).. -.-'
b0j4nftw 7 months ago
Sharing is caring
Nightmeare 7 months ago
where is this from, the guy asking lars the questions sounds like the guy from "metal-a head bangers journey
garrettgerbil13 7 months ago
@garrettgerbil13 Global Metal... a film by "the guy from "metal-a head bangers journey"
hazonation 7 months ago
I don't see what's wrong here, Lars is a retard but he made perfect sense there.
MrAdrianbelew 7 months ago
blue oyster cult! rawr!
thewolfsironheart1 7 months ago 25
@thewolfsironheart1 haha thats the first thing i noticed
keaton223 5 months ago
the biggest douche of the digital era
bondisurfersuperhero 7 months ago
did anyone else think those arab guys looked shifty as fuck?
liamfrantic 7 months ago
@liamfrantic don't all metal fans do?
bondisurfersuperhero 7 months ago
@liamfrantic nah, i just think you're a racist, xenophobic cock and a tool for the manipulators. y did they look 'shifty'? did you see a bulge under the IM tshirt? did they resemble the bush family? or hitler? or what?
bastardson73 7 months ago
@bastardson73 no they were stood there with retarded grins, and there eyes were all over the place, i didnt say anything racist, or anything related to terrorism, or hitler or bush, so erm....yeah you fail
liamfrantic 7 months ago
@liamfrantic whatever... 'shifty' and 'retarded' are very different descriptives. i stand by my assertion
bastardson73 7 months ago
@liamfrantic didnt say anthing racist...? i think thats a matter of perspective;
"those arab guys looked shifty as fuck": many ppl WOULD rightly feel that was a racist statement... its not like you said "those arab guys had retarded smiles"
bastardson73 7 months ago
Whiny little Lars got his fweeing hurted. :(
Did I mention he looks like Billy Crystal??
Bllackguard666 7 months ago
I am so glad I'm not a musician. You all can say there's no harm in it, but definitely more than half of music is pirated now, meaning the artists/producers get less money for slaving over that track you nicked. At some point, no money will be made and you all will no longer have new music to listen to. (cue the thumbs down and swearing insulting replies)
Shark7996 8 months ago
Well, Shark. All I got to say to you that I couldn't give less than a damn about piracy, and I actually do plan on being a labeled musician. Hell, when I first made music independently, I distributed it for free; it's not about the money, it's about the love.
malkrow21 7 months ago
@Shark7996 No thumbs down or swearing insults here. I just find that comment laughable. In the 80s there were people with banners everywhere saying 'Home Taping Is Killing Music' (google it). The fact is you have to embrace new technology, harness it and learn how to use it to your advantage. Artists today have the largest interconnected network known to man at their disposal, they can make themselves the producer, recorder and artist without all of the corporate hierarchy in between.
schr4nz 7 months ago
@Shark7996 Money was never made by CD sales. The majority of it goes to the store and record company. The REAL money is made from touring and selling your own merch. Bands have been exchanging music for a long time. How the fuck do you think early metalheads around the world found out about other bands? Through tape trading. Downloading music is the new-age tape trading and everyone knows it. The only people who bitch are the ones in it for the money, not the music, and shouldn't be supported.
ThazuaBlackarrow 6 months ago
Does this mean Lars will apologize to Shawn Fanning???
Novemberrain81 8 months ago
I'm Egyption too !!!
mysterioelsheikh1 8 months ago
You have to understand Lars, it's hard to say: "10 years ago saw things in a different angle and I acted like a bitch in menopause."
mastixastromparilos 8 months ago
Download a song = steal a chocolate bar from a store
MrMetallicaMetallica 8 months ago
0:22 oh look a fly
72david72lp 8 months ago
Lars can suck a huge cock. He doesn't care about the music anymore, now it's all about the money. Fuck all the musicians who have no integrity!
Kapitan234 8 months ago
@Kapitan234 what lars is saying is that internet is a good way for young people to reach music!!!
catcherintheray 8 months ago
METAL IN THE MIDDLE EAST!!!!!
kifan94 8 months ago
Ah metallica please come to saudi arabia for fucking gods sake!!
loshyfeelsweird 8 months ago
1:11 YEAH PORUGAL!!!
DiogoAlmeida95 8 months ago
And now as the RIAA tightens its grip and is going after children and poor people this fucking asshole is "at peace"???? Remember if it wasn't for him none of this would even be the way the way it is!!! FUCK YOU!
h4723d 8 months ago
at the end of the video was the begining of "Cloud Connected" by In Flames!
jesusmetal92107 8 months ago
the real problem is not napster or sites like it..the real problem is digital music...once the hard drive crushes..or the mp3 evolves in to something else old music disapears....and the only people that have the original music is the record companies..example gnr live at the ritz 88 is not really gnr property is mtv and is not on dvd for some reason...and that's the best recorded live show ever...we have to wait for mtv to get it...that's the problem......
wrabit79 9 months ago 2
@wrabit79 Your right!!
deicidalmaniac 8 months ago
Lars Ulrich. My hero for life :)
robotkop3000 9 months ago
NAPSTER! NAPSTER!
AMbassndrums 9 months ago
Awesome Sadus shirt is awesome!
Punjabi192 9 months ago
Fuck yeah in flames at the end. shame it got cut off :(
nyy22592 9 months ago
hes not eating his words. they were fighting napster about the fact that they were allowing the song i disappear to be downloaded b4 it was released.
blackshadow811 9 months ago
He's not eating only words, but cocks aswell.
666Eternus666 9 months ago
metallica sucks anyway
AroundThePony 9 months ago
@AroundThePony
Metallica rocks
metalupmybass 9 months ago
The internet didn't help music it made it saturated, now every douche bag on every corner has a shitty band. And the bands that are actually good don't even get noticed because it's so disposable, a good cd is a worthless as a 1gb flash drive. I can download anything I want but I don't appreciate the music unless it's something phenomenal because I've been desensitized to the artistry, creativity and work that was put into it. My friend had a band and couldn't even give his tickets away.
parsleysprigs 9 months ago
Thanks to the internet now there are bands in the middle east such as. Iron camel, The dark sheik, sandallica, Black jihad, and many more.
kalosanin2 9 months ago
@kalosanin2 a racist metal head?.that's a first.
neobogard 9 months ago
@neobogard Are u retarded? have you ever heard for NSBM
666Eternus666 9 months ago
@kalosanin2 sandallica? lol clever...
teenmetalfreak3 9 months ago
There is a Huge change in mind perception about internet back in 97-98 on what we have right now.
Lars didn't ear his words he just change his paradigm
theblackpacomurder 10 months ago
So for all the lazy people that can't go to work because they're too lazy and think they should get many things for free, here's your confession. By the way, WHO is making money here? That was nappy boy back when that's who.
munsterr777 10 months ago
lol in fllames at the end
JoNnYShizzle 10 months ago
@JoNnYShizzle And Vital Remains, lmao.
WatchPlayDownload 9 months ago
fuck lars...........download "illegaly" or free won't change anything to is fortune
nissougotic 10 months ago
@chestus12 I agree
Metallicaguy91 10 months ago
Using the internet to share/steal pre released music/movies/software ect... is surely wrong but if the material has been issued already i don't see the big deal, Sharing music always happens, before and after napster, how many of you ever borrowed a metallica cassette from a friend(that's how i first found out about them) Remember the bootleg days, pirated copies are what got their name out, i can't remember anyone freaking out about the dual cassette recorders that where sold by the millions!!
bcherbs 10 months ago
egg head!
spikeman316 10 months ago
Ingen kan lide dig, Lars!
EikC 10 months ago
@EikC Hvaf f''' snakker du om?!?! Han gør mig sku stolt af at være dansker!
metallicatsa 10 months ago
Sadus. Iron Maiden. Vital Remains. Man, the Middle East has awesome tastes in metal. :D
nervouswreck75 10 months ago
It wasnt about losing money, it was about losing control.
metyzermanfan19 10 months ago