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Lars Ulrich Pirates His Own Album
rudeboy1 writes "Lars Ulrich, drummer for Metallica, and long time opponent of file sharing admitted to 'pirating' his own album, Death Magnetic last year. 'I sat there myself and downloaded "Death Magnetic" from the Internet just to try it,' he said. 'I was like, "Wow, this is how it works." I figured if there is anybody that has a right to download "Death Magnetic" for free, it's me.'"
"I'm out of touch with reality, and honestly, we killed off our fanbase when we starting whining about napster... So, hey guys! Look at me!! I'm relevant again!!! SERIOUSLY!!! I download stuff too!!"
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Instead of reinventing to look and be alternative, they are now considering the pirate theme.
Wonder if he was as let down by it as I was! What a waste of time+bandwidth
F'ing Metallicops, go!
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I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
"Fuck Metallica." Damn groupies. Thats your solution for everything.
I'm going to apply a little more of Lar's logic here and say that this is like Lars walked in a music store and shoplifted the CD. No one can disagree that would be wrong, would they? Only this is far, far worse because it involves the Internet.
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After downloading it, he actually listened to the album and was like, "Wow, what a complete pile of crap! These guys suck!"
Filesharing hurts the middle men only period.
Blockbuster, Netflix, Redbox.
Filesharing is like a swimming pool in your backyard.
Even though its yours, law requires a fence around it.
DVDs are a public nuisance, too easy to share, like a non-fenced pool.
The law should FORCE a fence on DVD's. Make them encrypt or something.
Please....
"Buca De Beppo" ??? What the heck is that? An Italian pedophilia clown?
Who're the beetles? Are they bigger than Deaf Leopard?
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Metallica Rocks, Pirating is wrong, and You suck.
Lars?
Arr! The laws of physics be a harsh mistress!
They're only the band that Lead Zeppelin could've been...
I figured if there is anybody that has a right to download "Death Magnetic" for free, it's me.
Wrong. I'm going to apply your logic here...
Actually, you're wrong; Lars is just displaying his mastery of logic, trying to fool people into thinking he's okay with filesharing. See, he said "if there is anybody that has a right to download 'Death Magnetic' for free....'" There (likely) isn't. So the antecedent is false, so his statement is true.
It's never a good idea to try to out-logic a pirate.
Imagine Olive Garden with a table that has a Pope's head encased in class on a lazy Susan in the middle. You get to spin it around and have it stare at others while you eat overpriced and oversized Americanized Italian food, family style, with lots of other people in a crowded and campy restaurant. That's Buca di Beppo.
But I suppose the Pope's head in glass could be confused with an Italian pedophilia clown in some circles, so good call there.
"... I'm relevant again!!! SERIOUSLY!!! I download stuff too!!"
Oddly enough, he's the ONLY one who's pirated "Death Magnetic"
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
your comment will be ignored, mostly because it makes too much sense.
They're bigger than Jesus.
>>Are they bigger than Deaf Leopard?
What did you say?
I hear they're bigger than jeebus.
Frost: Are you saying the drummer of Metallica can do anything he want's - even if it is illegal.
Ulrich: I'm saying, if the drummer of Metallica does it, it's not illegal.
What? But I was TRYING to steal his music! And now you tell me I may have accidentally got it legally via his own computer? Rats, I'm going to have to go download it again. I hope he's stopped seeding by now.
...after completing that download and finding out how easy it was. He had absolutely no right to download the entire Slayer discography. :D
s/could remember/could NOT remember/
That's okay. After all the drugs Ulrich has done, he's not sure either.
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Imagine Olive Garden with a table that has a Pope's head encased in class
The Pope is always encased in class.
So stylish.
it was so slow because he was seeding a folder "good stuff, save for next year's album" to a thousand apt fans at the same time.
I'm aging rapidly, I bought a new game and had no idea if my machine was good for it.
Who? Oh, you mean Jeasus.
"This thing does science so hard, you say, 'I've never seen that much science.'" -Sam
That's not saying a whole lot, I'm a lot bigger than most Mexicans too but you don't hear me bragging about it.
... still waiting for this free-as-in-beer free beer I keep hearing about.
"Its certainly possible to download off of some P2P networks with some clients without sharing anything."
It's also possible for people who don't seed to get anonymous mail bombs.
I mean, anything's possible, really.
Wow, but wouldn't that make it harder for humans to evolve to be more intelligent/observant/drownproof? ;)
Okay, guys, we're not supposed to talk about Usenet, remember?
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Sorry. You'll now have to ask him to make a bootleg copy of the album and buy it off him for a buck in order to feel normal again.
The Internet is generally stupid
More like a "BOOM", as it soared overhead so fast it broke the sound barrier..
Look back up at my post, now look back down, you're on the Internet. Now look back up. I'm a signature.
And grammatically speaking, shouldn't "The Who" have been, "The Whom" ?
Yeah, that sounds rock'n'roll..
Look back up at my post, now look back down, you're on the Internet. Now look back up. I'm a signature.
D: Piracy is a crime executed at high seas, by bearded men that resemble a vague mixup of Johnny Depp and Keith Richards, wearing a parrot and a golden earring. People behind computers may infringe copyright and dream of one day going to Somalia and to board an supertanker using nothing more than a grenade launcher and a couple of AK47's. And a boat.
That "BOOM" is the sound of it hitting him in the face... and bouncing right off
We'd better not talk about usenet, or they'll find the usenet main node at 127.0.0.1 and then we'll be screwed!
So for God's sake don't let them know about the server at 127.0.0.1!
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rediculous.
Usenet fucking sucks anyways.
Just for shits and giggles, my sneakernet beats out my 20/20 FiOS connection on Usenet - on an hourly basis. I also get the added benefit of going somewhere and maybe experiencing something interesting rather than just sitting at home.
Usenet is old, and practically no ISP carries Usenet access any longer. Who cares about a service practically dead when there's other alternatives out there like XDC and whatnot?
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
> Besides...getting it off the newsgroups is less traceable.
It sure is! You only have to sign up for a binary newsgroup service, supplying them your credit card info and identity details.
I believe the commonly used expression for this situation is "Whoosh".