Band Member Pirates His Own Album

And guess who that was? Lars Ulrich of Metallica (who vehemently spoke out against file sharing sites in the earlier part of the decade) pirated his own album off a torrent site a couple days after Death Magnetic was leaked on the net last year.

“I sat there myself and downloaded ‘Death Magnetic’ from the Internet just to try it,” he said. “I was like, ‘Wow, this is how it works.’ I figured if there is anybody that has a right to download ‘Death Magnetic’ for free, it’s me.”

Now he isn't so uptight about torrent sites and file sharing (although he has a right to be), now, he says that "it’s part of how it is these days.”