If Unfaith detune their guitars will that stop them infringing? Obvious comment I suppose…

Are Metallica by any chance related to the RIAA? They seem to share stupid genes at least.

It looks like it is.  Read the comments in the fark.com story to see that it was posted there by someone involved in the band.  Not sure if that’s the origin or not, but it sure spread like wildfire didn’t it?

First destroying Napster, now this? Who gives a shit about Metallica anymore, anyway? Fuck them for destroying Napster—this just proves they don’t care about the music, just the money.

Gee, they should get together with Spike Lee. 

HA! i really think it is a fake article, but funny as hell. and whoever did it mimicked the MTV site perfectly. but if you notice, the URL, that isn’t from mtv.com, heh. all the links, however, to link back to mtv’s site. also i perused the mtv site looking for the story and couldn’t find it. *chuckle* that is just too funny. if you really think about the article, the writer is totally slamming metallica for their less than varied music style adn their litigiousness. fucking classic!

btw, i linked you on my blog…s’okay?

It’s definitely a hoax. I’ve even updated my entry to indicate that fact.

And feel free to link to SEB from your own site. I’m flattered you think we’re worth linking to.

Heh!
“Cock-Ups, not just for the Bush Administration Anymore”

That is going to be the new tagline of my blog

Les, thanks for the info on the hoax .... I also should have read Brian Flemming’s blog closer…gak ... oh well, if Bush can F’ up daily, we can be conned once

-John

Oh my fucking gawd! I’m glad this turned out to be a hoax. Otherwise I’d have said this was the height of greediness and stupidity.

Awww, shame. And I thought I was a hotshot on spotting hoaxes. I guess I really WANTED this to be true!

Metallica are still dickhats, and they would really have done it if the hoaxer hadn’t thought of it first. So there!

The funny thing is it was on Jimmy Kimmel last night.
They got taken in too.

It is a great satire on the whole concept of intellectual property.

I agree, but satire and reality are getting a little bit hard to tell apart these days and regular news sites are starting to read like the Onion.

mmmm..  kirk and rob

Metallica has worked their asses off to make their name and now there just trying to keep it that way without bands trying to steal their style. Metallica does and always will rule the world in Heavy Metal. Fuck all you fucking ass fucks saying they’re sell out.

Awww. Poor fanboy had his favorite band dissed. All Heavy Metal music sucks anyway so I suppose that makes Metallica the rulers of the world of suckiness.

Yah Metallica’s the rulers of the world of suckiness because they’ve sold millions and millions and millions of records. Look i don’t care if you don’t like heavy metal but they still are one of the greatest well known bands all over the world. So you gotta give them that.

Right… Metallica did about 2 good albums (the ones with Cliff… that’s a no brainer).

After that they just sold out.

We got a word for that: Prostitution.

I remember when they said: we’ll never do video clips. Then they released the “One” video.

From that day on, they became whores.

Um ya Metallica sucks balls they are the biggest peices of fucking shit in the world…i would rather lick my dogs balls then listen to there music…Ozzy all the way…..... O sorry for posting on a 2 year old thing