{"id":13847,"date":"2015-04-13T23:21:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T23:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/metallica-loses-their-cool\/"},"modified":"2015-04-13T23:21:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T23:21:57","slug":"metallica-loses-their-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/metallica-loses-their-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Metallica Loses Their Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-1234\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<div class=\"bottomcontainerBox c7\">\n<div class=\"c6\"><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fpinterest.com%2Fpin%2Fcreate%2Fbutton%2F%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fthisdayintechhistory.com%252F04%252F13%252Fmetallica-loses-their-cool%252F%26amp%3Bmedia%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fthisdayintechhistory.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2011%252F04%252Fmetallicavnapster.jpeg\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\" rel=\"lightbox[1234]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fcf51__pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1235\" title=\"Metallica Sues Napster\" alt=\"Metallica Sues Napster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fcf51__metallicavnapster.jpeg\" width=\"269\" height=\"187\" \/>April 13, 2000<\/p>\n<p>The heavy metal group <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMetallica\" target=\"_blank\">Metallica<\/a> sues <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNapster\" target=\"_blank\">Napster<\/a>, alleging copyright infringement and racketeering. This lawsuit, later joined by Dr. Dre, as well as other lawsuits from the RIAA, eventually caused the original Napster service to shut down and file bankruptcy. However, the Pandora\u2019s Box that Napster opened could not be closed and digital distribution changed the music industry forever.<\/p>\n<p>As for Metallica, their reputation was tarnished for some time by this move.\u00a0Ironically, Metallica owed much of their early popularity to the spread of unauthorized copies of their early albums. As the heavy metal genre in general and Metallica in particular did not get much airplay at that time, it was reported that Metallica quietly encouraged the free spread of their music in the early 80\u2019s. Therefore many viewed Metallica\u2019s action against Napster\u00a0as hypocritical and greedy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottomcontainerBox c7\">\n<div class=\"c6\"><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fpinterest.com%2Fpin%2Fcreate%2Fbutton%2F%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fthisdayintechhistory.com%252F04%252F13%252Fmetallica-loses-their-cool%252F%26amp%3Bmedia%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fthisdayintechhistory.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2011%252F04%252Fmetallicavnapster.jpeg\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\" rel=\"lightbox[1234]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fcf51__pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fcf51__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/04\/13\/metallica-loses-their-cool\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 13, 2000 The heavy metal group Metallica sues Napster, alleging copyright infringement and racketeering. This lawsuit, later joined by Dr. Dre, as well as other lawsuits from the RIAA, eventually caused the original Napster service to shut down and file bankruptcy. However, the Pandora\u2019s Box that Napster opened could not be closed and digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[1046,3078,4104,4105],"class_list":["post-13847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-cool","tag-loses","tag-metallica","tag-their"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}