Continuing with our thoughts on the absurdly archaic attitude of Metallica, Mashable shares a story via Blabbermouth, regarding their thoughts on an early leak of their new album “Death Magnetic”.
“…it’s part of how it is these days, so it’s fine. We’re happy.”, says drummer Lars Ulrich
I suppose we’ll see how happy the angry black-clad rockers are [...]

Techdirt suggests an interesting conundrum coming out of the ownership/copyright battle over the Flat Stanley character. In short (click here for the quick summary), Flat stanley was a character that was created, disappeared into obscurity and was revived by another person recently, only to create a stir over ownership rights between the family of the [...]

My guess is, this goes over like a fart in church. I’m not referring to the release of the new GnR song on Rock Band 2. That video game will make a killing. I mean the Chinese Democracy record in general. I do think its cool that they’re choosing to embrace a new and hot [...]

One of the principles of Swaplogic philosophy is the fact that transparency is becoming a commodity. Transparency used to be hard to come by. But with the advent of the Internet, as well as tools that have been around for some time but not as widely used, like video, digital cameras and cellular devices, transparency [...]

In an extension of our Metallica discussion from days gone by, the folks at Mashable have reported that Gene Simmons of KISS has picked “a side” in the Napster argument as well. Not surprisingly, the crusty old bassist picked the crusty old business model. Gene, Gene, Gene. The hair dye is seeping into your brain [...]

Oh, its the little things like this, courtesy of techdirt, that warm a meager Accountability Soldier’s heart. Metallica, you’ve done some great things in the wonderful world of heavy metal music. You’ve created one of the most widely appreciated and copied guitar and drum sounds in all of hard rock riffery… You’ve be able to [...]