1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/NapsterBad_1.png]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:350:Off to save the music industry, one offensive Flash movie at a time.]] |
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4 | ->''Money good. Napster bad.'' |
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6 | A series of humorous Flash-animated shorts, produced in the years 2000-2001 by Bob Cesca from a group then known as [[http://www.snarkrocket.com/ Camp Chaos]], satirizing Metallica and their [=MP3=] sharing crackdown. |
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8 | First, a little history. In 2000, Music/{{Metallica}} sued the peer-to-peer service Napster, devoted specifically to sharing Platform/MP3 files, for [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil having Metallica songs freely available on their network]]. The lawsuit ended up forcing Napster to ban hundreds of thousands of users, and eventually resulted in the Napster company going bankrupt. |
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10 | The ''Napster Bad'' series caricatures Metallica--specifically, Lars Ulrich (mispronounced as ul-[[{{Greed}} RICH]]) and James Hetfield--as a group of greedy primitives, upset about their fans giving them slightly smaller oodles of money than usual due to Napster. Other music celebrities, such as Music/DrDre and Music/SherylCrow, also get a lot of flak. |
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12 | Understandably, these movies aren't very popular with most Metallica fans. And stay away if you don't like off-color humor, either. |
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14 | The series includes: |
15 | * [[http://www.snarkrocket.com/blog-archives/2006/05/napster_bad.html Napster Bad]] (May 2000) -- Lars and James rant at length (well, Lars does), first thanking their fans for making them rich, then dissing Napster users for downloading their songs, and warning them about [[PrisonRape the consequences]]. |
16 | * [[http://www.snarkrocket.com/blog-archives/2006/05/napster_bad_metallicops.html Metallicops]] (June 2000) -- A {{pastiche}} of ''Series/{{COPS}}'', with Lars and James apprehending a music pirate in his house. |
17 | * [[http://www.snarkrocket.com/blog-archives/2006/05/napster_bad_metallica_milliona.html Metallica Millionaire]] (July 2000) -- James Hetfield stars in ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'', and his usual DumbMuscle depiction is taken to extremes. |
18 | * [[http://www.snarkrocket.com/blog-archives/2006/05/napster_bad_good_or_goblin.html Good or Goblin?]] (July 2000) -- Nutty [=McShithead=], the [[TalkingPoo literally-named]] spokesman for "Recording Association for Popsong Economics", gives a PSA on the evils of Napster. |
19 | * [[http://www.snarkrocket.com/blog-archives/2006/05/napster_bad_sue_all_the_world.html Sue All The World]] (July 2000) -- Celebrities opposed to [=MP3=] sharing gather to perform a CharityMotivationSong. |
20 | * [[http://www.snarkrocket.com/blog-archives/2006/04/napster_bad_napster_dead.html Napster Dead?]] (August 2000) -- Lars, James and Nutty are celebrating Napster's shutdown in a beer-filled bathtub. |
21 | * [[http://www.snarkrocket.com/blog-archives/2006/04/napster_bad_bizarro_napster_ba.html Bizarro Napster Bad]] (March 2001) -- Metallicock, a band which happens to be very similar to Metallica, lays out their own grievances against Metallica, Napster, you and YourMom. |
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24 | !!Tropes good!: |
25 | * BlackComedyRape: "Good or Goblin?", though it's just audible and [[RelaxOVision not visible]]. |
26 | * CharityMotivationSong: Parodied in "Sue All The World". |
27 | * ClusterFBomb: Lars. |
28 | * DumbMuscle: Hetfield. |
29 | * FunWithAcronyms: Recording Association for Popsong Economics. |
30 | * GoodAngelBadAngel: Hetfield has one, a demonic clone of Ulrich, in "Metallica Millionaire". |
31 | * {{Greed}}: The entire music industry is characterized as this. |
32 | * HulkSpeak: Hetfield. |
33 | * LaughTrack: Throughout "Metallica Millionaire". |
34 | * LikeIsLikeAComma: Ulrich. His very first line is "Like, good afternoon!" |
35 | * NewMediaAreEvil: A lot of shorts feature the characters complaining about the threat that this new "interweb" invention poses to life at large. |
36 | * TheNoseless: Everyone. |
37 | * OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope: The original Flash version of the "Napster Bad" short opens with a disclaimer to save the authors from Metallica's legal wrath (the disclaimer is cut from the video version on the production team's current website though). |
38 | * RoboticReveal: [[spoiler:Regis in "Metallica Millionaire"]]. |
39 | * RunningGag: Regis Philbin dancing to the ''[=WWTBaM=]'' ditty throughout "Metallica Millionaire". |
40 | * {{Scatting}}: In "Sue All The World": |
41 | -->''There are people stealin' our copyrighted tunes \ |
42 | Bwaighlo weirhlo, bwaighlo weirhlo lailolailo... prunes!'' |
43 | * SceneryCensor: Lars's bodily details are covered up with foam throughout "Napster Dead?" |
44 | * ShoutOut: Hetfield's line "[[Film/{{Frankenstein 1931}} FIRE BAD!]]" |
45 | * TalkingPoo: Nutty [=McShithead=], the spokesman of the recording industry. Apparently also a {{Gasshole}}. |
46 | * ToiletHumor: Reaches its peak in "Good or Goblin?" |
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