Everyone turning into Metallica.

The whole "copyright infringement is theft" meme seems to have stuck.

20 years ago it was all "information wants to be free" and "infringement is not theft; being deprived of speculative profit is not a loss."

How the turn tables.

Lars has seemed to me like such a basket case this entire time.

He's lead Metallica through the "Copy our tapes! Let everyone hear our music!" early days, through the "They're stealing our master recordings!" Napster and Senate hearings era, and come all the way back 'round to "I’m just happy that fucking anybody cares about what we’re doing and shows up to see us play and still stream or buy or steal our records or whatever.” [https://consequence.net/2023/09/metallica-lars-ulrich-stream...]

2 out of 3 ain't bad, I guess.

You just discovered that principles are rare. Now let me show you my preferences of convenience.

"Information wants to be free as long as I benefit from not paying."