The longtime opponents of Internet piracy, who sued file-swapping network Napster in federal court, are promoting downloads of their songs via Metallicavault.com, a Web site set to launch Thursday.
But the site will be free only to people who buy the band's upcoming album, "St. Anger," scheduled for release the same day. The CD inset will include a unique code that people can use to access the site's video of live performances and download newly released tracks.
The band's upcoming Web site and CD will still likely let people get bonus material and music for free. For example, people could share their unique code with friends or they could share digital downloads of music files from the site. But Speakeasy, the Web site's broadband service provider, said that if say, a million people are accessing the site with the same code, it will move to address that.
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