Why aren't Dr. Dre threads shit up by people bitching about him killing Napster?
This, I'm so fucking tired of people always talking about napster in the Metallica threads.
Like many other peoples said here, they had unreleased song leaked on the web. Anybody that creates something will want to protect it from thieves, that's just normal.
Yes the RIAA is bad but, again, this has nothing to do with Metallica.
Finally, if you ever seen Some Kind of Monster (or did a bit of research on the group) you will see that this whole Napster thing happened during the year that James Hetfield was in rehab. It was a very dark time for the group and at that point the other 2 members (they didn't had Rob yet) were not even sure if James would come back at all and it could be the end of the group. They had years of bullshit and frustration built up and I guess Napster was the first target. I'm not saying that the way they did it was the best way to go but they were 100% in their rights to protect the material they had created over the last 20 years.