So Dense...

#2 on Daypop today (that's the ranking engine for things popular in the Weblog world for those of you that aren't immersed in all things bloggy!) is the story about how big bad Metallica is suing poor Montreal band Unfaith over their use of the E F chord progression...

Of course this is all just malarky and is an illustration to those that treat internet news as gospel of the dangers of appearing a horse's ass when said hoax is revealed.

What's hilarious is the sheer amount of hatred being poured out towards Metallica on the internet.

The band's problem is not that it's been pranked: this kind of thing happens all the time on the net. The problem is that everyone is still doing a slow boil over Napster and Metallica's presumed part (ie. Greed: MINE MINE MINE! Stay away from our copyright songs! AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!) in Napster's downfall.

Even though most of us will claim that file-sharing without buying the CD is wrong **wink wink** and that we'd never ever do such a thing again, Metallica came out of the whole thing looking like a bunch of selfish money-grubbing lawyer-associating numbered-account obsessing a**holes who wanted to squash the fun of their "fans" -you know, the ones rich enough to have a computer with broad-band access, but too poor to buy a CD.

Enough people are ready to believe that Metallica would be so greedy to attempt this: how's that for a future legacy?