Of any type of music, no other than a metal or hard rock band could have been more wrong to go after Napster. It does not matter the reason, that's just pity pretext. I grew up when hard rock, metal and all that stuff was coming out and none of those bands would have made it if it was not for people making copies of their vinyls for friends. That is how it became a popular style with very little advertising or anything. Underground distribution was the key and those bands did not put any money into it, but got big money out of it. To me it is like Metallica insulted it self by not even understanding the very reason they could be so successful. They did not start the music style, made their variations, and just ripped the profit from those who did start and of any band, they were the last one who should have gone after Napster. That's great deal on their shoulders for ever. As for free distributing a demo, it's lame to keep using this as pretext when all this did was create more publicity. What all these artists and music records also fail at mentioning is the fact that us, from the vinyl days, many of us have purchased new copies on DVD of music we already paid rights on before. No discount, nothing offered ever. I will never cry for the music industry as they get paid any time they get played on TV or radio or any public place. This is free advertisement in billions of $ value. In fact it's more like they get paid for advertising their product.
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Of any type of music, no other than a metal or hard rock band could have been more wrong to go after Napster. It does not matter the reason, that's just pity pretext. I grew up when hard rock, metal and all that stuff was coming out and none of those bands would have made it if it was not for people making copies of their vinyls for friends. That is how it became a popular style with very little advertising or anything. Underground distribution was the key and those bands did not put any money into it, but got big money out of it. To me it is like Metallica insulted it self by not even understanding the very reason they could be so successful. They did not start the music style, made their variations, and just ripped the profit from those who did start and of any band, they were the last one who should have gone after Napster. That's great deal on their shoulders for ever. As for free distributing a demo, it's lame to keep using this as pretext when all this did was create more publicity.
What all these artists and music records also fail at mentioning is the fact that us, from the vinyl days, many of us have purchased new copies on DVD of music we already paid rights on before. No discount, nothing offered ever. I will never cry for the music industry as they get paid any time they get played on TV or radio or any public place. This is free advertisement in billions of $ value. In fact it's more like they get paid for advertising their product.