{"id":679034,"date":"2010-03-01T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100301\/0257548340.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-01T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T22:01:00","slug":"metallica-sued-napster-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/679034","title":{"rendered":"Metallica Sued Napster For This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Levine has a post up looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstmonopoly.org\/index.php?perm=593056000000002641&#038;utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" >Metallica&#8217;s revenue streams last year<\/a>.  Apparently, the band made the vast majority of its money from concert revenue &#8212; bringing in $22.8 million.  It made $1.6 million from album sales.  As Levine notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nHmmm&#8230;think it would make a lot of difference to the world if they lost the $1.6 million from the albums? Without copyright they&#8217;d only make $22.8 million from touring&#8230;You might almost think it would be worth it to them to give the recorded music away for free to promote their concerts&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or, hell, give away the tracks and promote <i>other stuff<\/i> as well.  Selling music directly (relying on copyright) is a tiny business compared to the opportunities elsewhere.  And, of all the bands out there, Metallica should clearly recognize that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100301\/0257548340.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100301\/0257548340.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100301\/0257548340&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=07c6c61d352b3c1ce153d893126abedd&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=07c6c61d352b3c1ce153d893126abedd&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=2pgScFooYGU:X3rCPjnqxs4:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=2pgScFooYGU:X3rCPjnqxs4:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=2pgScFooYGU:X3rCPjnqxs4:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/2pgScFooYGU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Levine has a post up looking at Metallica&#8217;s revenue streams last year. Apparently, the band made the vast majority of its money from concert revenue &#8212; bringing in $22.8 million. It made $1.6 million from album sales. As Levine notes: Hmmm&#8230;think it would make a lot of difference to the world if they lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2QEa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}