metallica hypocritical? (Score 0, Flamebait)

so the situation as i understand it is that previously, metallica members spoke out very strongly against people downloading copies of their copyrighted materials without their permission. they feel that the copyrights that they have on the music that they made should be honoured and respected. flash forward to present time, and now they (like so many other artists) are offering free copies of some of their material, such as live recordings, to people who purchase their album... am i the only one who doesn't see how this is hypocritical in any way, shape, or form? they don't like copyright infringement, but at the same time they offer some of their music for free...how are these in any way related. how can this be hypocritical. the problem is you losers don't really have a clue what's going on, you just seem to enjoy picking people and demonizing everything they do... face it, lars had every right to say whatever he wants about his copyrighted material. he and his bandmates have dedicated their entire lives to creating these songs. their entire lives. you will never understand what that means, because 99.999% of you will never dedicate your lives to anything. you'll never pick something you love, and do it, through good times and bad, and come out on top...but these guys have. they've given up the whole possibility of living a normal life to make these songs. and you're stealing them, and claiming to be morally and ethically right in doing so...i'd be pretty pissed if i were him. you just don't understand. to you, music is a hobby, it's a fun thing to listen to. you have these flipant uninformed views on music because you think you're a music lover, you use words such as passionate to describe how you feel about music, but you have no idea what you're talking about. you read what are essentially attention-grabbing pressreleases from artists saying that record labels are bad, and you believe it. if someone posted an article about some revolutionary one-time pad cryptosystem, you'd make so much fun of them for falling for that crap, but then the offspring claim that they love napster, or band x speaks out about the evils of the music industry and you totally fall for it. so i'm basically making fun of you for that. the offspring is not pronapster, no professional band is. professional bands don't make music for fun, they make it to sell. no one gets a big fat record deal by accident. bands are only anti-music industry because you people love it when the little guys stick it to the man, and you buy more of their albums that the music industry allowed them to create. and the riaa, who they also claim to hate, writes them a big fat check for the albums they sell. and the people who write songs about being poor drive BMW's, and it's all one big scam that you're all falling for...you bring up examples like incubus suing their label because they are so hard done by, but the label is rolling in dough...but didn't they get like a million a piece for like one or two albums...and didn't sony just lay off like 1,000 people from their music division...but the poor starving artists are being screwed by the big rich record labels... wake up.