Kirk Hammett Says Metallica Warned Everyone About Music Streaming

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that music streaming services don’t generate high payouts for artists, unless they’re getting millions and millions of streams. This has been a widely-discussed topic over the last few years, and Kirk Hammett said that Metallica tried to warn everyone about such platforms back when they had their issues with Napster in the early 2000s. Metallica took Napster to court in 2000 over copyright infringement — the digital service allowed anyone on the internet to share and download music illegally. It was the first case where an artist had sued a peer-to-pe…

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