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How on earth did it take so long? I’ve been copystruck by these assholes at least three or four dozen times in the 30 years I’ve been pirating … Stuff.
Metallica loves imperialism for the most part, that's how.
Owning the rights to copy and distribute your own creative works = imperialism
Rofl. Imagine thinking I called out Metallica for taking down Napster alone.
Their shit's been used in DoD/weapons-contractor videos for decades, and the moment the MAGAts start to turn on Trump over the Epstien stuff, Metallica is suddenly anti-drone, for the first time ever.
Next you'll tell us NASCAR brought down the Berlin Wall.
Napster^TM^ is alive and well
Don't confuse the awesome free service that once was with the paid brand that's still around. Still funny all the effort and good-will Metallica wasted to go after one site when plenty of alternatives existed.
Policing the speech of other people = authoritarianism, yes.
Copyright is a government-granted (and enforced) monopoly. Under anarchy, no one would benefit from copyright protection, at least not the same way we have it now.
People could voluntarily police their own speech to stay in an association... but I don't know how/if that would scale.
No, but when it came time for them to stand up for their rights, they were total dicks about it. There was a right way to handle the situation, but they chose the wrong way.