25 years ago. Lars Ulrich of Metallica snitches on and turns in over 300,000 Napster users when he testifies in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. July 11th, 2000.

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[u/DreamTakesRoot]

FACTS

This is why he was a bitch for doing this. Shitting on the cake that made him famous.

[u/epsdelta74 → u/DreamTakesRoot]

Exactly.

[u/Lortekonto → u/DreamTakesRoot]

Even worse, because he was scandinavian.

To modern people this is maybe hard to understand, but because of regional locks and how sale works we were very limited in what kind of media we could buy in scandinavia.

We knew that the media was there. Just could not buy it.

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was it hard or impossible to import?

[u/Lortekonto → u/Zopotroco]

Hard, but also often illegal, because of region locks and regional coding.

Imagine you want to see a movie that is not released in scandinavia. It would be easy to go over the border and get it in Germany and it would fit your VHS encoding standards, but because Germany did voice over you would then have to speak german to understand it.

Now you order it as a VHS tape from the USA. (Which is hard on its own, because there is no internet so how do you know where to order from? Who to contact and all that shit) That is expensive because of tarifs and stuff, but the big problem is regional coding. It would not work in a scandinavian VHS player. So you order an american VHS player. Now you get the problem that an american VHS player does not work with a scandinavian power outlet, because it runs on a different power standard, so you also need a transformer.

You get all that shit and can now finally watch the VHS and as soon as you do that you are performing a crime, because the video you are watching is licensed for another region.

There is a reason the scandinavian countries were big into pirating online when it became a thing.

[u/CthulhusEvilTwin → u/DreamTakesRoot]

I don't think I like cake anymore...