Metallica copyright strikes U.S. government

cool, but Metallica still sucks for what they did to napster.
- FIRE BAAAD
  
  Merch good
- This is basically the same thing.
  
  Napster had a standing army? Neat!
  
  touche
- I still hold a YUUUUGE grudge towards metallica for what they did to napster. I will die on this hill damn it.
- 100%
- Metallica were just a bunch of tone deaf (speech) poster boys for the RIAA.
  Napster was too big and too bold. They let themselves become synonymous with pirated music. There's no way capitalism would let that alone. If it wasn't Metallica, it would have to have been someone else.
  On the upside, the Case was between Reload and St. Anger; their sales dropped by half and never recovered.
  
  Metallica were just a bunch of tone deaf (speech)
  you don't have to clarify that. You really have to be a ham fisted fucking idiot to do the things compositionally that metallica does with the music they have to hand. Master of puppets should have made a recurring theme of the chromatic (ish) intro, and they throw it away, they bash away at the same shitty, caveman riff for eight fucking minutes. And Justice for all has a great intro, and it gradually degrades until basically nothing is left.
  check out this song that uses a theme similar to master of puppets for a better way to use a similar musical idea https://youtu.be/FoGoEQ8DUDo?list=RDFoGoEQ8DUDo&t=18
- Every single artist did it to Napster, Metallica were just the front men. Tbf Napster wasnt going to survive legally, and if it had remained popular they would have gone to shit with some sort of payment system
  
  Not even in the slightest. Metallica went far above and beyond everyone else hunting down little old ladies to sue.
  99% of bands didn't make money from album sales, which is what makes all the hand wrangling over Spotify funny. Musicians idolise a world that never really existed.

When reached for comment, James Hetfield responded, "YEAH-YEAAAAH, WHOA."
- OOOoooohhh

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.
  
  Imperialism is a strong noun. Sure they've benefited greatly off the back of US imperialism, but Jesus, condemn us all. It's not like they didn't write "Disposable Heros" or "One." Sure they can be litigious twats, but saying they're pro imperialism is peak brain rot.
  
  Owning the rights to copy and distribute your own creative works = imperialism

Oh fun. This webiste's cookie banner only has a "accept everything" button.
- Ah, sorry. My adblocker blocks those annoyong popups. I had no idea.
- Click on "Purpose" and there you can turn them all off. And there is the Save and Exit button there too.
  
  If reject all is more steps than accept all, it is literally illegal in the EU.
  
  I pressed the other Save and Exit button in the top right corner of the window
- Consent-o-matic automatically blocks all cookies

What a strange time to be alive.
- Crazy world we live in
  Can we go back to 2018?
  
  Clearly everybody's memory is fucking shit because the same dictator was in charge in 2018.
  
  Fuck 2018, take me to 2026 when the year of the Linux desktop empowers us to run sudo impeach now

Give em the Napster treatment
- Lars has reached his final form
- Close down the shop you mean? Can you do Russia too? I think I've even heard state TV use Babylon V soundtracks once.
  
  Russia not giving a shit about takedown requests is one of the good parts about the country

After striking themselves this is a close 2nd of funniest Metallica strikes

At least they are consistent I guess.

Broken clocks, as they say.

- Cliff was great. And Lars kinda sucks. But
  Lars accidentally invented speed thrash metal so
  Give Lars a break man.
  Edit: canonically, Lars was a mediocre drummer with a ton of common bad drummer habits. Notably he sped up a lot when he was excited or nervous. Metallica, being a bunch of insecure alpha male bros refused to complain that it was too fast out of fear they’d be seen as ninnies by the others so they just went with it. Speed metal was born. Thrash metal. Whatever you wanna call it. It’s a fun story.
  Every drummer I know thinks Lars sucks. But Lars has influenced every drummer I know more than they realize.
  
  Lars did what now?
  
  He's such a little turd though
  
  No they stole the sound from Anvil like literally every other band of the day.

Good! Fuck letting Nazis appropriate anything into their culture of bigotry and hate.
- i have bad news about who metallica has shown themselves to be in the last 5 years
  
  Out of the loop old-school fan- what have I missed about them?
  
  Link?
  
  Their whole schtick is being as unlikable as possible, not sure why anyone would be surprised.

Isn't the US govt exempt from copyright or is it just congress?
- Works created by the U.S. government do not benefit from copyright protection.
  I don't believe either the government in general or congress in specific have the blanket ability to ignore copyrights held by others.
  
  This is because works created by the government used tax money to pay for it; meaning it belongs to everyone who pays taxes. This is why american video games don't need special permission to use US military hardware names or depictions, but would have to pay royalties for using brands like Winchester, H&K, or Fabrique Nationale.
  
  That's stuff created by the government however there are also fair use provisions carved out for the government. I've had military guys claim the govt has complete fair use which I doubt.
  I know congress can ignore copyright for debate and argument. So a member of congress pass around copies of material to other members of congress regardless of copyright.
  I'm also pretty sure the government can't legally start streaming all the Disney movies to federal employees without permission. I'm not sure where the line between these twoexamples is however.
- who gives a shit, I will sic the fashion police on the government

Good to know Lars is still a piece of shit and Metallica isn't worth listening to.
- Doooon’t downloaaaaad this soooooong…
  
  Oooh, yeah-haya!
- And why shouldn't the artist have a say in how their music is used?
  
  I'm not arguing that. They should. I know if I had music being used by trump to support his campaign I'd have some personal opposition to it. Lars is a special kind of asshole that I lost all respect for years ago so maybe I'm overly critical of him.
  All that said, the military using a song in a training video is such a stupid thing to get worked up over. It's basically removed about a fair use case, because it's not any kind of external promotion of the military. Just an internal video. Which is really an on brand example for Lars' special kind of cuntiness.

I’m guessing this is about money, I can’t picture Metallica and James Hetfield being against Trump.
- I can’t picture Metallica and James Hetfield being against Trump.
  At least some bands make their position very clear.

Anyone played the star spangled banner backwards, just in case?

Just here to confirm nobody knows Anvil invented this form of music.