Yeah, right. 7 guys and 1 (one) bottle of wine.

Nice hypocrisy.

So effectively, he broke the law and stole from record producers.

Thanks lars, you have finally given us the green light that says it’s ok to pirate :D

Rest In Shite Metallica.. stop making noise. Just remember to seed bitches.

(If they seed their own album, is it still illegal for people to download it since they are knowingly and willingly giving it away?)

Now get off here and go and listen to all the remixes that you all assume is great NEW music!

I don’t recall any metallica being in the charts for that long…

2 good albuns in his entire career, and hes worried ?
don t be, youre no pink floyd or goodsmack, youre just a pathectic bastard.

looooooooolllll

Ein neuer Pirat hat auf der MSS-Filesharing angeheuert – der Metallica Schlagzeuger Lars Ulrich. Es haben schon mehrere Künstler versucht Ihr Album über Torrent gratis zur Verfügugn zu stellen – sei es jetzt wie NIN durch eine abgespeckte Version bz…

1. 30 minutes to download an album=not a very popular torrent or needs to set up port forwarding.

2. If you use bittorrent: you would definitely remember which client you used.

3. Who is Metallica? Don’t download their songs so don’t know who they are.

Result: Publicity stunt to get people interested in their music.

yeah god forbid they actually want money from the product they make … what sellouts

seriously you sound like a stupid tool saying things like that

you’re the bigger douche, metallica have done more for me than you will ever do.

Yet again more d-bags constantly trying to argue that downloading is stealing..

“It’s a terrorism of the mind that actually sustains concepts like intellectual property. It’s a terrorism that’s grounded on an idea of brutal repression of that which is actually possible.” – Lawrence Liang

Just because someone thinks they can copy a ‘thought’ or ‘idea’ infinite amount of times and sell it like its gold doesn’t mean you have a god given ‘right’ to. It also doesn’t give anyone the ‘right’ to persecute people for obtaining it without paying for it.

The fact that there are laws that attempt to justify these ridiculous concepts is a sign of greed and terrorism.

File sharers are here to put a stop to all this BS, and you can come up with whatever retarded excuses and claim we are just justifying stealing.. I don’t care.. in the end we will win and you losers will have to get a real job.

not sure why u need 2 posts but each to there own… you like to ramble insults off the tongue and seem pretty good at it better then me i must say! but that seems to be your limit. i hear you rambling what is your ideal set of morals but i see no hard facts. i would love to see what you facts of law are thus far i have seen none…you most certainly have been brain washed by the likes of the RIAA.

When you download a copy you may be downloading the same spngs/fims thatyou have on dvd but it is actually a copy of someone elses cd/dvd and therefore not covered in “fair use”. As you are downloading an “illegal version” it is against copyright even if you own the material in another format
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Omg did you kids even go to school?

Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as use for scholarship or review. It provides for the legal, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author’s work under a four-factor balancing test. The term “fair use” originated in the United States, but has been added to Israeli law as well; a similar principle, fair dealing, exists in some other common law jurisdictions. Civil law jurisdictions have other limitations and exceptions to copyright.

It has NOTHING TO DO WITH DOWNLOADING ANYTHING, stop bringing it up, it has no merit in a piracy based discussion.

Downloading is piracy, but it’s not THEFT.

In criminal law, theft (also known as stealing or filching) is the illegal taking of another person’s property without that person’s freely-given consent. As a term, it is used as shorthand for all major crimes against property, encompassing offences such as burglary, embezzlement, larceny, looting, robbery, mugging, trespassing, shoplifting, intrusion, fraud (theft by deception) and sometimes criminal conversion. In some jurisdictions, theft is considered to be synonymous with larceny; in others, theft has replaced larceny.

You’d be hard pressed to find a pirate that downloaded a movie or song, then promptly went into the store and started lighting the retail copies on fire, that’s about the only way it’s theft, you have to deprive someone of something.

All you half baked kids that are barely literate are NOT helping the situation. Shut the hell up and go read a damn book and leave the good fight to those of us that understand the law.

Anyways, how can I sue Lars over this?

When you download a copy you may be downloading the same spngs/fims thatyou have on dvd but it is actually a copy of someone elses cd/dvd and therefore not covered in “fair use”. As you are downloading an “illegal version” it is against copyright even if you own the material in another format
”

Omg did you kids even go to school?

Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as use for scholarship or review. It provides for the legal, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author’s work under a four-factor balancing test. The term “fair use” originated in the United States, but has been added to Israeli law as well; a similar principle, fair dealing, exists in some other common law jurisdictions. Civil law jurisdictions have other limitations and exceptions to copyright.

It has NOTHING TO DO WITH DOWNLOADING ANYTHING, stop bringing it up, it has no merit in a piracy based discussion.

Downloading is piracy, but it’s not THEFT.

In criminal law, theft (also known as stealing or filching) is the illegal taking of another person’s property without that person’s freely-given consent. As a term, it is used as shorthand for all major crimes against property, encompassing offences such as burglary, embezzlement, larceny, looting, robbery, mugging, trespassing, shoplifting, intrusion, fraud (theft by deception) and sometimes criminal conversion. In some jurisdictions, theft is considered to be synonymous with larceny; in others, theft has replaced larceny.

You’d be hard pressed to find a pirate that downloaded a movie or song, then promptly went into the store and started lighting the retail copies on fire, that’s about the only way it’s theft, you have to deprive someone of something.

All you half baked kids that are barely literate are NOT helping the situation. Shut the hell up and go read a damn book and leave the good fight to those of us that understand the law.

No one cares that you can use a thesaurus, stop calling yourself a 13 year old genius. Because again… No one gives a damn.

You’re an idiot. File sharing will never die. And I know for a fact torrent technology will not either.

The only people I know who haven’t tried P2P yet are my grandparents. At least they know not to keep making albums.

once again, seriously..

Metallica = Douche!!!!!

i can see you are a very bright individual. im sorry you dont like me for disagreeing with you.

its ppl like you that believe that fascism is the answer to mans problems today. you sound like a wanna be bureaucrat. you may not agree with me but that is the way your ideals are coming out.

im sorry you could not understand what i was saying about the law before but the info that i have shared with you comes from supreme court case law in the usa. because a mp3 is not main stream and you can not goto your local store to buy one…at least in 90% of the usa’s market it would be considered that there is little fungibility for it (sorry about the cap before my bad) and when it comes to on line for the kids, one must have a method to pay for it if they can actually find it on line forsale.thus a digital video or audio recoding (mp3 or avi)has little fungibility (as the supreme court calls it) then “fair use” tends to step in.

in order to say one has stolen intellectual property one must first prove that you have in fact suffered a loss. just making claim you lost because someone dls your copyrighted music is not enough… you must prove you actually suffered a loss or the person dling has made a gain. furthermore the gain must be of a profitability. if i am dling songs and then selling them to my friends i have violated the law.

since an individuals personal use is classified under law as a nonprofit use im making no profit in the dl it is not steeling it is “fair use” the laws are not written as the RIAA likes to interpret them in their favor understandably.

@188 thanks for the compliment!

“Lawd, who even pays attention to these fossils anymore?”

lol they still better than that moldy brittney spears vaginal fluff you listen to… penis puffer.

As for the word fungibility… all intellectual property is completely fungible. I have no idea why 177 brought it up.

But he obviously debunked your entire argument in one sentence, one totally irrelevant to your argument that pirating is stealing.

then he starts to talk about copyright infringement and “fair use”. Talk about incoherence. He sounds like an extremely inarticulate Pre-Law undergrad.