Dave Mustaine comments on Lars Ulrich’s Napster scandal: “Who knows why a guy does that? I mean, does he have enough money?”

In the early 2000s, metal giants Metallica and its drummer Lars Ulrich took a big blow to their image when Ulrich was a vocal critic of the then file-sharing service Napster.

At the time, the new way of sharing songs from one computer to another, among other things, provoked strong criticism from Ulrich and many others about musicians’ rights.

However, many thought Ulrich was just greedy, and he was alleged to be attacking smaller creators. In these golden days of streaming, however, many have changed their view, and many seem to think that Ulrich was right about the trend towards musicians earning less from their music.

Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine has shared some of his own views on the subject in a recent HBO documentary “Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, And Rage”:

“For me, see, I remember back when I was in METALLICA that we used to trade tapes. That’s how we even discovered bands. I don’t know. I can’t blame Lars for doing the things that he does. Who knows why a guy does that? I mean, does he have enough money? Probably, right?”