UnquietDreams
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Lars was an asshole. Lars is an asshole still. But Lars wasn't wrong either.IDK…the same could be said for Metallica, but I loved them…until Lars killed Napster![]()
Metallica took on Napster because they were big enough to do it. A lot of major artists hid in their shadow because they didn't want to take the public opinion hit. And yes, it was a fight between a huge business that didn't want to change and a company that abetted and encouraged outright theft, but rather than the two sides coming to a model that would work, they fought, and we now end up with a system where both music creation and consumption has been completely devalued, especially by those who came of age during the streaming era. Technology outsourced art. Now you have companies dropping AI created songs that get streamed by bots to bump numbers.