Lars Ulrich Pirates His Own Album 672
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! (Score:5, Funny)
Metalica's New Look (Score:1, Funny)
Well... (Score:5, Funny)
Wonder if he was as let down by it as I was! What a waste of time+bandwidth
INTARWEB BAAAAD! (Score:4, Funny)
F'ing Metallicops, go!
Heh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Metalica's New Look (Score:5, Funny)
NOW? Hetfield's been peppering his singing with "Yo-Ho" for so long, I don't know why there's no parrot on his shoulder yet.
Re:Metalica's New Look (Score:5, Funny)
That's a long way away from the kill 'em all days. It is very sad.
Re:I'm out of touch! (Score:5, Funny)
Metallica's upcoming new album (Score:5, Funny)
I thought even he knew it's wrong? (Score:2, Funny)
Don't Download This Song! [youtube.com]
Re:2 words (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:5, Funny)
Full user experience (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:2, Funny)
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....
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:5, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Heh (Score:5, Funny)
For some reason this summons up images of Darth Vader trying to cram a cookie through his face-plate thing.
Re:... And Justice For All (Score:5, Funny)
Metallica Rocks, Pirating is wrong, and You suck.
Lars?
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:5, Funny)
They're only the band that Lead Zeppelin could've been...
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:3, Funny)
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 [wikipedia.org] is false, so his statement is true.
It's never a good idea to try to out-logic a pirate.
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Oddly enough (Score:5, Funny)
"... I'm relevant again!!! SERIOUSLY!!! I download stuff too!!"
Oddly enough, he's the ONLY one who's pirated "Death Magnetic"
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:5, Funny)
your comment will be ignored, mostly because it makes too much sense.
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:1, Funny)
>>Are they bigger than Deaf Leopard?
What did you say?
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:2, Funny)
I hear they're bigger than jeebus.
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:5, Funny)
Sure, but (Score:3, Funny)
...after completing that download and finding out how easy it was. He had absolutely no right to download the entire Slayer discography. :D
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:3, Funny)
s/could remember/could NOT remember/
That's okay. After all the drugs Ulrich has done, he's not sure either.
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:5, Funny)
Imagine Olive Garden with a table that has a Pope's head encased in class
The Pope is always encased in class.
So stylish.
Re:Bandwidth (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:4, Funny)
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:2, Funny)
"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.
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:3, Funny)
Shut up about USENET already! (Score:5, Funny)
Okay, guys, we're not supposed to talk about Usenet, remember?
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ee e ea... (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, that sounds rock'n'roll..
Re:Mod parent down clueless... (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:2, Funny)
That "BOOM" is the sound of it hitting him in the face... and bouncing right off
Re:Shut up about USENET already! (Score:2, Funny)
Who do you think 'they' are? They are us.
No we're not. Mimic us one more time and we will sue you for trademark infringement.
Good thinking! (Score:4, Funny)
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!
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:3, Funny)
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?
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:2, Funny)
It sure is! You only have to sign up for a binary newsgroup service, supplying them your credit card info and identity details.
Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R (Score:3, Funny)