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1) Copyright infringement is NOT STEALING. I do not condone copyright infringement (or stealing, for that matter), but there is a definitive, legal distinction between the two, regardless of what the RIAA or Lars Ulrich tell you. The 911 "download" analogy is spurious.
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Lars whole point was that a song was leaked, and put up on Napster BEFORE they were done mixing it., The song being I Disappear from the MI soundtrack. The band never cared about Live, bottleg recordings, but they had major issues with Studio produced music being distributed BEFORE it was suppost to.
Now the bands stance is, go ahead and download the music, just as long as its already been released in album form.
The RIAA has been bending us over the counter for decades, and bending the musicians over also. Though I feel the peer to peer downloading problem should be delt with in a different way. I agree it is a threat to musicians in general.