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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2000-05-05T10:06:00'
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title: An open letter from Metallica,
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[An open letter from Metallica](http://www.brunching.com/features/feature-metallicaletter.html), courtesy of the Shuttlecocks, regarding their Napster lawsuit. "_If music were free, the promotional money -- or as we call it in the business, the "we don't suck" money -- would dry up. And without that money, face it, you'd be lost._ "