================================================ Subject: Re: NCR - A great way for bands to give fans incentives to buy instead of download music From: "Keith Mears" To: Date: Mon 18 Jun 2001 22:08:43 -0500 ================================================ On the other side. Metallica was being portrayed as a greedy band that > would prosecute people for listening to thier music. So they were seen > as a band not even worth the time to explore thier music. > Sort of like the Offsprings stance on not making the album available for > download directly. > I never used Napster, so I really don't know how big of an impact that > the availability of music to download was. I just thought it was "us" > against "them". And therein lies one of the biggest misconceptions of this whole situation. Metallica did NOT go after their fans in the lawsuit against Napster. They gave Napster a list of 300,000+ names of people who had illegally downloaded any Metallica songs (here's the important part) AT NAPSTER'S REQUEST, because Napster's CEO said they could not block access to the service without names of subscribers. In essence, it was a stalling tactic, which backfired BIG-TIME when Metallica actually produced the names. Unfortunately (in my humble opinion) for Metallica, it also caused a backlash against THEM because the great majority of those named also took it to mean that the band was "after them". This is absolutely NOT TRUE, but it is difficult, if not impossible, to convince these (former?) fans of that. Hope that clears it up a little.--------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- "And I don't want the world to see me, 'cause I don't think that they'd understand." - Googoo Dolls "End of passion play, crumbling away/I'm your source of self-destruction." - Metallica "Welcome my son/Welcome to the machine." - Pink Floyd To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp