FC: Metallica drummer says Congress should ban MP3-swaps, Napster

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/is/20000502/bs/metallica_speaks_put_napster_out_of_business_1.html

 Tuesday May 02 11:15 PM EDT
 Metallica Speaks: Put Napster out of Business
 Industry Standard

 Lars Ulrich, drummer for the heavy-metal band Metallica,
 suggested that the U.S. Congress should step in to stop
 MP3-swapping services like Napster "before this whole Internet
 thing runs amok."

 Ulrich made the comments, along with many others, during an
 hour-long Web chat on ArtistDirect.com, Metallica's first public
 interaction with fans since the band became the first to file suit
 against Napster.

 In addition to suing Napster, Metallica announced today that on
 Wednesday it will deliver to Napster's offices in San Mateo,
 Calif., the names of 335,435 individual users alleged to have
 swapped Metallica recordings on the Internet. The 60,000 pages
 of documents include a request that the users be removed from
 Napster's system as punishment for violating the band's
 copyrights.

 The move personalized the Napster debate for many fans, and it
 led at least two reporters to wonder if they would be among
 those named in the list of violators.

 Known for spitting in the face of
 conformity and dominant
 institutions, Metallica sounded
 remarkably like middle-class
 parents during the fan forum, as
 they argued for government
 intervention in order to protect
 their retirement accounts.

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