Metallica vs Napster, Pt. 1 - 2000

<p>Audio source: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spotify-rd/episodes/00-The-most-epic-battle-in-music-history-es7j2l">https://anchor.fm/spotify-rd/episodes/00-The-most-epic-battle-in-music-history-es7j2l</a> (10 minutes in)</p><p>- I Disappear: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Disappear#Release">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Disappear#Release</a><br>- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica_v._Napster,_Inc.">Metallica v Napster Inc. lawsuit</a></p><p>Highly recommend subscribing to this Spotify miniseries, it is excellently produced and Episode 2 has nice technical detail on the founding of Spotify from Daniel Ek.<br><strong><br></strong><br></p><p><strong>Gustav Soderstrom: </strong>[00:00:00] In fact, Sean estimates that about 70 million people were using Napster at the height of its popularity, but not everyone was a fan. </p><p><strong>Lars Ulrich: </strong>[00:00:07] We were all completely in over our heads. </p><p><strong>Gustav Soderstrom: </strong>[00:00:10] That's Lars Ulrich. You may know him as the drummer in Metallica, or you may know him as a plaintiff in the now historic Metallica versus Napster lawsuit.</p><p><strong>Lars Ulrich: </strong>[00:00:18] It's easy to sit 20 years later and see the chain of events and how one domino would cause another domino and cause another domino to fall and so on and so forth. And then we ended up. Basically in this shitstorm  and ended up, suing each other and ended up being on Capitol Hill and blah, blah, blah.</p><p>And it was such a circus. You know,</p><p><strong>Gustav Soderstrom: </strong>[00:00:50] the circus started when Lars got a call about an unreleased Metallica track. called "I disappear" from  long time manager, cliff going, "There's </p><p><strong>Lars Ulrich: </strong>[00:00:56] a radio station in St. Louis, Missouri, that's playing "I disappear"".  That was if he had called up and started speaking Russian to me. So a day or two later, I get a call back going well, there's a company called Napster who offer the service over th