Twitch Censors Live Metallica Performance with Dorkiest Music Imaginable

In the year 2000, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich answered questions from Slashdot's readers.

Late Friday night, the AV Club described Metallica's appearance at the opening ceremonies for the (now online) version of Blizzard Entertainment's annual event BlizzCon: The opening ceremonies were being broadcast online, both through the official BlizzCon page, YouTube, and Twitch. And you know what happens when licensed music gets played on the internet, don't you, folks? That's right: Copyright issues!

Per Uproxx, the audio of James, Lars, and the boys' performance apparently went out as per usual on YouTube and the BlizzCon page — although the whole thing appears to have been excised from the YouTube upload of the event. But on Twitch... On Twitch, things did not go so well. Which is to say that, even though it was being hosted on the company's official twitchgaming channel, the performance was ominously preceded by a chyron noting that "The upcoming musical performance is subject to copyright protection by the applicable copyright holder."

And then this happened....

Can we prove that someone at Twitch intentionally picked the dorkiest, most Zelda forest-ass music imaginable to have Metallica rock their little hearts out to, instead of broadcasting their extremely copyrighted music (and thus having to deal with the possibility of issuing one of their ubiquitous DMCA takedown notices to themselves)? Obviously not.... On the other hand, we can prove that it is extremely funny to watch this happen, especially — as many people have pointed out — since Metallica is at least partially responsible for the restrictive character of many online musical streaming laws that dominate the internet today, after their high-profile campaign against Napster way back at the dawn of the MP3.
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Napster

[Arethan]

Never forget.

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Re:Napster

[aitan]

I remember that shortly after the Napster campaign, Metallica took another hard approach to prevent piracy of their music: they started releasing albums so awful that it wasn't worth the bandwidth to download them.

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[serviscope_minor]

they started releasing albums so awful that it wasn't worth the bandwidth to download them.

Ah you're thinking of their "Download This" album.

http://www.bbspot.com/News/200... [bbspot.com]

Also, I'm not one to hold a grudge for 20 years except oh wait yes I am.

[Nelson's voice]

Haaa haaa.

Scour Exchange.

[BAReFO0t]

Napster technicall was the first.

But in the same year, Scour Exchange offered sharing all file formats and was also a much better network. So I don't get why Napster gets all the fame ...

Old enough to remember this?

[waspleg]

FIRE BAD [youtube.com]

There is a comment saying the original SWF cartoons are in the wayback machine somewhere but this was easier to find.

reply with your magnet links here

[Anonymouse Cowtard]

Metallica torrents, flac, MP3, rar, download, Napster, discography. That should get a few search hits. Pirate your Metallica today!

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[UncleTogie]

They lost their balls when Cliff died. Haven't cared for 'em since.

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[Lonewolf666]

They were good until and including the black album. Then things went downhill. I have not cared about them much since.

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[sound+vision]

Metalheads are mostly a brand of dork anyway. When they take themselves too seriously (like Metallica), it's... huh... wow.

When they don't take themselves too seriously, it can get pretty awesome though. [youtube.com]

Re: Gotta admit...

[BAReFO0t]

I know it's not technically pure metal, but what kind of dorks do you know that mount flame throwers to their mouths? Cause that's what Rammstein did, and that's the opposite of dorky in my book.

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[sound+vision]

I've actually had an appreciation for Rammstein since middle school. Playing Mutter and Sehnsucht would somehow really set the mood when I was playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein. As far as "pure" metal I'm into some of the older stuff, Ozzy and Sabbath, I can appreciate Van Halen on a technical level (but the songwriting can veer into the cheddar zone). I've even been known to zone out to some of the more extreme stuff on occasion, like Burzum.

I didn't say I didn't like metal, I said metalheads (the guys

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[Presence Eternal]

I did not prefer it, but I did like it.

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[Powercntrl]

The goalpost is pretty low with this. Death metal rooster [youtube.com] is better than Metallica.

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[SvnLyrBrto]

Well, they haven't released anything worth listening to (or downloading) since 1991 anyway. Some of the heavy metal purists will even say that the Black Album was crap that shouldn't exist. And even if you don't hate the Black Album, there's still no denying that the genre peaked in the '80s.

Chiptunes, however, are timeless and eternal.

Twitch... bad!

[mobby_6kl]

RIAA good. Twitch BAD!

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[dknj]

For the millennials that were not born yet during the napster debacle [fastswf.com]

Cmon you laughed.

Re: Twitch... bad!

[BAReFO0t]

No Flash player emulator on that site nor in my browser. :(

I still remember it though. And yes, anyone who downmods OP, is clearly too young. :)

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[SvnLyrBrto]

And for the Zennials who've never had to suffer from Flash:

https://youtu.be/LeKX2bNP7QM [youtu.be]

I have a modest proposal...

[Entrope]

I wonder if Twitch could have finagled some broadcast rights for Kabbage Boy tracks from Jack Black and Double Fine.

"Ever feel like you were born in the wrong time - like you should have been born earlier, when the music was... real?"
"Like the seventies?"
"No. Earlier... like the early seventies."

Yay!

[Ol Olsoc]

Seriously, that video was hilarious, I approve wholeheartedly, and think that should be superimposed on every music vid on the Intertoobz.

Re:Yay!

[StormReaver]

I think ALL Metallica audio should be censored with nature sounds, such as farts and burps. After all, we would just be giving Metallica what it asked for in the 90's: for no one to spread their sounds. This censoring should also apply to ALL forms of distributions, even the ones done by Metallica itself.

Re:Yay!

[Ol Olsoc]

I think ALL Metallica audio should be censored with nature sounds, such as farts and burps. After all, we would just be giving Metallica what it asked for in the 90's: for no one to spread their sounds. This censoring should also apply to ALL forms of distributions, even the ones done by Metallica itself.

Absolutely. And it isn't censoring, it is acting in good faith according to the demands of Metallica.

Re: Yay!

[BAReFO0t]

They would definitely sue any server, router, switch and network interface manufacturer between any viewer and them.

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[serviscope_minor]

Absolutely. And it isn't censoring, it is acting in good faith according to the demands of Metallica.

That's the best part of it. When NASA got a takedown on a probe landing video, that was stupid. But this is Matallica. they started this fight on the side of takedowns and against the fans. It's just funny.

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[Ol Olsoc]

Absolutely. And it isn't censoring, it is acting in good faith according to the demands of Metallica.

That's the best part of it. When NASA got a takedown on a probe landing video, that was stupid. But this is Matallica. they started this fight on the side of takedowns and against the fans. It's just funny.

Your part about the fans is the sad part. People playing some metallica as part of a video isn't trying to infringe on their rights - it's a sign they like them. It's more likely that it would attract people to their music rather than cost them.

In the end, their karma has just made them a laughing stock. Quite fitting.

When I was in college

[rsilvergun]

a guy I knew was an anime fan. His roommate was a musician and had professional Amp stacks. His neighbors decided to play some loud rap music (amusing, since they were all well to do white kids, as far from the 'hood as you can get) and wouldn't turn it down when asked. So using his roommate's professional Amps (meant for large venues) he countered with this [youtube.com]

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[dknj]

TIL only hoodrats can like rap music.

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[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Not what he said, settle down.

Re: When I was in college

[Hawks]

Similar but opposite. I had dorm wall neighbors who insisted to waking up at 6am with Istanbul (Not Constantinople). I didnâ(TM)t have a set of professional amps, but my Denon receiver and large JBLs about 6â from the wall playing Pink Floydâ(TM)s Time at 2am(when I went to bed) got them to stop right quick.

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[genixia]

This [youtube.com] would have been so much better

Reap what you sow

[green1]

Couldn't have happened to a nicer group of RIAA shills. They pushed hard for this system, I have zero sympathy when it backfires on them.

Re:Reap what you sow

[nicolaiplum]

Yep. Metallica is a major reason why the DMCA exists so fuck them.

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[bill_mcgonigle]

It's what happens when you run out of ideas and don't want to return to the lifestyle of someone who has no ideas.

Has-beens forgetting where their own traps are

[TheNameOfNick]

Unfortunately they're getting publicity out of it.

Zeldallica

[zenlessyank]

How fitting.

Karma!

[Ol Olsoc]

Looks like the end stage of everything Metallica worked very hard to achieve. This way twitch won't be involved if anyone recorded the live music Metallica was playing and then played it back. We're not laughing with ya Metallica - we're laughing at ya!

Like when Dick Cheney got his hown site censored.

[BAReFO0t]

By the "family" filters he demanded, remember that?

You know, cause "Dick"...

Thanks for the memories

[Kernel Kurtz]

And can't the band play on?
Just listen, they play my song
Ash to ash, dust to dust, fade to black

Poetic Justice

[Aoverify]

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