Subject: RE: kmfdm
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 18:26:24 -0400


I was talking to a couple friends of mine. we all have between five and
twenty GB of mp3. thats a hella lot. for you nontech people, thats somewhere
between 100 and 400 hours of music for free.
T A Hannigan (radon)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> [mailto:owner-anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu]On Behalf Of
> Joshua Houk
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 1:34 AM
> To: anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> Subject: Re: kmfdm
>
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> OOTSONATI-AT-aol.com wrote:
>
> > Speaking of Metallica, a few weeks ago they blacklisted their fans
> > that have downloaded MP3's of their songs. They sent out a list of
> > names to several telecommunications companies. Kinda nice
> of them too,
> > considering bootlegs were how they became so well known in the first
> > place. Much like the Grateful Dead.
>
> Erm... that's not quite the right story...
>
> Metallica (or, properly, Metallica's lawyers) surveyed a few days of
> Napster use, and compiled a huge list of usernames of people who had
> exchanged Metallica songs. They sent this list to Napster (and only to
> Napster), saying, in effect, do something or we're coming
> after you. So
> Napster banned the usernames listed in Metallica's document.
>
> Metallica only had the usernames - the handles that people
> using Napster
> go by. They had no other information on the users - there's no way to
> get them bar subpeonaing [er... spellcheck!] Napster to
> release personal
> information - a very, very unlikely scenario unless that person is an
> mp3 kingpin or something.
>
> I also saw an interview on either the Fox News Channel (don't ask) or
> MSNBC (don't ask) with Lars Ulrich of Metallica where he explicitly
> stated that the band has no problem, and in fact encourages exchanging
> mp3s of their live performances.
>
> And the whole banning of usernames is a bit of ruse anyway. Just
> uninstall and reinstall Napster and voila! new username.
>
> joshua h
>