Metallica offers reward for missing fan - Yahoo! News

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A Virginia Tech college student, Morgan Harrington went missing after attending a Metallica concert. After the concert, she got separated from her friends and no one has seen her since. She didn't have her ID or a cell phone with her. Morgan is 5'6, 120 lbs., blonde hair, blue eyes. Last seen wearing a black Pantera T-shirt, black skirt, black boots in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Her family has offered $100,000, and Metallica added $50,000 a total of $150,000 for information leading to Morgan's safe return or information leading to an arrest & conviction.

I think this a great, not many musicians would do this. Metallica rocks in more ways than one.

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17 comments // Metallica offers reward for missing fan - Yahoo! News

  • cabinettags
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      cabinettags  

    • Metallica killed Napster? Give the boys a metal !!!

      My daughter, as a 14 year old, used Napster to get me sued by the music industry. Far as I'm concerned Napster can be melted down and reformed into a toilet so I can shit on them every day. RIAA, those fine upstanding people that are the parasites on performers, offered me a deal during the process. They offered to sue to my daughter instead. Nice guys.

      "If at first you don't succeed; skydiving is not for you"

      Sorry Monkey but those people took money out of my pocket, and made me appear in Federal Court. I have no love for them, and don't intend to develop any. For them to crash and burn sounds like a good plan to me.

    • 4 months ago
  • StrangE2U
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      StrangE2U  
    • cabinettags:

      Don't be mad at the people who created p2p, be mad at the RIAA for pushing frivolous lawsuits on individuals, like yourself, who really were doing no harm to begin with... unless your 14 year old daughter was running a massive bootleg ring out of your den, then she should get sued.

    • 4 months ago
  • cabinettags
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      cabinettags  
    • cabinettags:

      stang, I hear ya; but disagree. What Napster was doing was equivalent to parking your car in the street with the keys in it. They knew the material they were offering was copyrighted. To kids, this was a candy shop. My daughter was doing no different than countless others - share file with friends. But in a fashion where the public could get to it. You're not sued for the copyright violation; you're sued for making it public. Even if that's not the intent.

      Fact is, the keys in the car argument is what won Napster a court date. Their argument was just because we left the keys in the car doesn't give you the right to take it. A clever use of words to slide out of answering leading children to break the law. Which is what they did.

      Thanks for catching my typo by the way. I don't think so much of the music industry since that happened, but have a definate grudge with Napster. Their unethical behavior caused me all kinds of personal problems. I'll shed no tears over them. To the contrary, I may dance.

    • 4 months ago
  • StrangE2U
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      StrangE2U  
    • cabinettags:

      Very true cabinettags, it is the act of uploading that typically gets you in trouble.

      However, technicalities aside, the problem I have with the levying of huge lawsuits against individuals like yourself is that the only ones really being hurt by the sharing of the media are the record labels, not the artists themselves.

      Most artists generally get screwed out of a lot of money by their labels and distributors, typically seeing somewhere between .5-.25 cents per album sold. So these theoretical values that the RIAA uses in it's lawsuits are based more on the potential earnings of the label/distributor, which is why Metallica (Lars Ulrich in particular) making such a stink about the "sharing of music" was such a joke. Especially when you consider that they had already made more money that some countries by that point.

      Of course, this probably has something to do with their close relationship with John Zazula (owner of Megaforce Records), who gave them their first break.

      I mean don't get me wrong, I don't think an artist should just give their art away for free (if they don't want to), but coming after individuals like yourself and making martyrs out of molehills is the wrong way to go about things.

    • 3 months ago
  • unclecharlie
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      unclecharlie  

    • Hmmm.....I figured Metallica's reward would be free concert tickets, a backstage pass, and some free t-shirts and keychains. See? Now you know why listening to Metallica is bad for you! She should have been listening to "What a Friend We Have in Jesus"! Yee Haw!

    • 4 months ago
  • cabinettags
  • JETaylor
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      JETaylor  

    • That is weird that she didn't take her cell phone, it's todays concert lighter. No ID; I guess she wasn't going have any drinks either. Maybe their's more to the story. Any way I hope she is OK.

    • 4 months ago
  • ZeldaMasterZapp
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      ZeldaMasterZapp  

    • Tell Metallica to suck my dick, hope they find that girl, pretty girl. But Metallica and their anti piracy, RIAA friendly POS, losers, Lars can take dive in a pool of lava. That's why Limewire is still around, you fucktards.

    • 4 months ago
  • spacemikey
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      spacemikey [removed]  

    • FU(K Metallica, they did ruin napster AFTER they had made more money than their great great grandchildren could spend (even if every relative in between spent amap).

      I would've understood if they decided not to get involved, but for them to offer 50,000 dollars in a reward (from those greedy bastards) is about an insult.

      They're total hypocrites, and I don't know what makes any of them think, that in 20 years from now when they're all dead; their money is going to do shit for them.

      "And Justice For All (with money)"...

      And Ares, no they didn't have a soul at the dollar store for me either... And you'd play hell trying to explain how those; greedy, rich, hypocritical, sold out bastards have souls as well....

    • 4 months ago
  • cabinettags
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      cabinettags  

    • Guys, I think it's crass to complain about the degree of generosity when the fact is Metallica didn't have to be generous at all. How much this dollar figure means to them I have no clue. But I bet I join the family in saying thanks. Old they may be, but their hearts in the right place.

    • 4 months ago
  • StrangE2U
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      StrangE2U  
    • cabinettags:

      while I agree that it is a form of looking a gift horse in the mouth, at the same time the girls family offered twice what metallica did.

      Kind of ludicrous when you think that most, if not all, of the guitars they play are worth more than 50k each...

    • 4 months ago
  • RodneyE
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      RodneyE  

    • I want to make comments about what all you have said. First things last, "Juliancommongold is way right, that is kind of strange that someone would not bring their phone or even ID. Look out for this girl, she might be planning something big. Second, RWASS, have you ever been to a modern day matallica show? They suck! I mean totally suck, they are too old to play anything that these people use to play, so this girl wouldn't even loose a penny, people were probably sitting in a circle crying about how emotional these new metallica songs are. Finally Mikeysfake1, I agree, they could fork over way more money. Thats like a nights pay right there for those scum bags! If they cared, they need to drop some more money on this drag!

    • 4 months ago
  • Mikeysfake1
  • Ares
  • vampicorn
  • rwass
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      rwass  

    • Not really if you're going to a show. Especially Metallica, that stuff would probably get lost at a concert like that.

    • 4 months ago
  • JulianCommongold

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