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...listening to Metallica this morning in my office," Sen. Orrin Hatch told the band's drummer, Lars Ulrich, to guffaws. "Pretty darn good." The suddenly impish Utah conservative even downloaded a Creed album as the hearings kicked off, to show how easy...
...Easy enough for 13 million Americans to have done it, making Napster beloved by penny-pinching music lovers and a major headache for record companies and bands. Metallica and the Recording Industry Association of America are suing the site - "Napster hijacked our music without asking... Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads," Ulrich testified. Napster CEO Hank Barry's straight-faced response: "Napster is an Internet directory service... That...
Some deejays get a perverse thrill out of shifting styles suddenly, clearing the floor and sending startled dancers back to their seats. This expertly crafted new CD revels in that thrill. The song Little Black Spiders comes on hard, like the Prodigy in a back-room brawl with Metallica; another track, the smooth Full Moon, offers up a less confrontational sound, melding glitter-ball disco with old-school hip-hop. On Koochy, Van Helden samples Gary Numan's 1979 synthesized pop hit Cars, pumping it up with contemporary club-land rhythms. These songs startle, annoy, bewilder--and ultimately entrance...
Selling compact discs was viable as long as the companies controlled the quantity and destiny of that music. Metallica CDs have been available only from stores, catalogs and online sites, and sold at a price that covers production, marketing, distribution, royalties to the artist and, not least, the markup for record company and retailer. That's why CDs that each cost 50? to make retail for $15. As long as the only way to get that music was through those channels, then Metallica and its label, Electra (owned by Time Warner, TIME's publisher), had a great gig. Last week...
...real threat to that business model, however, is client-to-client-based programs like Napster, Gnutella and Freenet that make searching and swapping MP3 music files quick and painless. Suddenly Metallica and Elektra no longer control the quantity and destiny of their songs. It costs zip to download Metallica's And Justice for All via Napster. If you're selling CDs, it's hard to build a business around that price point...