Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: Metallica == Filthy Rich Future
Author: David Valentine Posted: 5/12/2000; 10:39:39 AM Topic: Metallica == pathetic clueless losers? Msg #: 17255 (In response to 17249) Prev/Next: 17254 / 17256
Big band that has establish practices, looking to make sure that other artists can become filthy rich, too. It's a gamble. if they lose even 60% of thier fan base, they are still sell a few hundred thousand albums.They know the value to tape trading. Metallica was a band that allowed people to tape at shows and had an active tape trading network. It was just that rather than taking a week or two for an unauthorized song to make it accross the country, and be available to a few thousand fans, it was available instantly, to a few million people.
I think they were trying to kill it before it got really really large. They only canned 300,000+ users. That's less than 3% of thier highest album sales, and probably less than 10% of thier latest album sales. And the thing about napster is that it is not a trading network. The songs being traded are not fan recorded songs from shows. they are ripped copies of songs from CD's.
Users are not going to thier friends house and copying tapes. They are not even getting songs from people they met at a concert. They probably have never even been to a concert. It's a big jukebox, but you don't have to pay anything.
The music industry pushed way too hard for it's secure music initative. They are always too focused on preventing copying. They should have pushed a rights initiive, pay to listen.
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