ladies and gentlemen, the strokes! may i have your attention please? the dixie chicks. billboard s top 10 singles, all by black artists. i don t please everybody with who i am as a person. i love beyonce. is not a working telephone is it? empty shelves are all you will find at tower records. it s now out of business. three, two, one! this is a very special moment of the first performance at the mtv studios in the new millennium. please welcome no doubt! i will always remember new year s eve, 1999, going into y2k, seeing no doubt on mtv playing it s the end of the world as we know it by rem. it s the end of the world as we know it, it s the end of the world as we know it, and i feel fine. it was a very appropriately apocalyptic song for what turned out to be an apocalyptic decade. happy new year! we wake up, it s 2000, we are all alive, and we are in the middle of teen pop mania. boy bands were selling so many albums.
May i have your attention, please . We got a moon man. Im very ashamed the president of the United States is from texas. The dixie chicks, they can say what they want to say. Billboards top ten singles all by black artists. Rappers are the new rock stars. I dont please everybody with who i am as a person. Okay. Real staccato. Like, stick it. I love beyonce. Thats not a working telephone, is it . Hello . [laughs] empty shelves are all youll find here at tower records. Its now out of business. [dramatic music] all three, two, one. [all screaming] this is a very special moment. The first performance at the mtv studios in the new millennium. Please welcome no doubt. [cheering] thats great it starts with an earthquake birds and snakes and aeroplanes and lenny bruce is not afraid ill always remember new years eve 1999 going into y2k seeing no doubt on mtv playing its the end of the world as we know it by r. E. M. Its the end of the world as we know it its the end of the world as we know it i
the internet site, napster.com. it began when metallica heard on the radio a song that they hadn t released yet. metallica was like, what? april 14th, metallica filed a lawsuit against napster for basically encouraging people to steal and trade music. we started this thing called x metallica fan.org, asking the community to completely ban and boycott metallica it i m glad your next metallica fan because i don t want you to be a fan if that s your attitude. i embraced filesharing. if you have, you know, you got off napster, rock, please. we were plucked out of obscurity and given a career.
so, we suddenly had a platform for sharing music, to the frustration of the label i was on. napster built 1 million multimillion dollar business based on people copying files to millions and millions of people they don t know. there s a way the technology can be adapted to benefit the parties involved, the artists, the industry, and users. they should ve been an early version of itunes. it s a tragedy didn t happen. he was court of appeals has ruled that napster is infringing on copyrighted music, letting users steal songs. the executives did not want any kind of itunes style distribution infrastructure that would fit with the internet because they were terrified of unbundling the single from the out album. for a long time, the been able to take one hit song, like
ban and boycott metallica. i don t want you to be a fan of ours if that s your attitude. i can t speak for the other bands, but i embraced file sharing. if you have napster our band was given a career because of napster. so suddenly i had a platform for sharing my music to the frustration of a label. napster built a multibillion dollar business based on people copy iing files to millions and millions of people they don t know. there s a way that the technology can be adapted to benefit all of the parties involved, the artists, the industry and the users. napster should have been an early version of itunes. it s a tragedy it didn t happen