A gun isn't made specifically to shoot your boss, Napster is made specifically to trade mp3's- legal or not... We all know that the majority of material that could be traded on Napster is copyrighted. Now, the big issue damning Napster is that they were offered a licensing deal by all of the major record labels, and they turned it down. Napser was the only such service to do so. Then some artists filed a suit, and after that Lars joined it. So yes, Metallica looks bad, but we all know looks aren't everything. I personally have no beef with Napster except that it takes the choice out of the artists hands. You can go to my band's web page right now and download 2 mp3's- one third of our demo for free. I think that should be up to myself, my drummer and my guitarist, not some kid with our cd and an mp3 encoder. Napster goes a long way to taking that decision away from my band.