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I have to say that the argument that Metallica was "going against their roots of fan bootlegging" during the Napster thing is just horseshit. They were an unknown band, and the "bootlegging" basically meant that a few hundred people were trading tapes of the band. In 1981, there weren't millions of people downloading your albums for free.
Just for one moment, put yourself in Metallica's shoes. If you put 20 years of your life into making music and now face the fact that people are just taking it without paying for it, you'd be pissed too. The fact that bands make so little money off of CD's to begin with actually compounds the problem....they aren't even getting their measley 85cents per CD that they make.
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