I was a teenage Napster obsessive – and illegal downloading changed my music taste for good | Music

Lars Ulrich (L) of Metallica testifies before the US Senate judiciary committee on music on the internet, 11 July 2000.

It’s 6pm on a weeknight in 2002. I settle into a desk chair and thump the huge, round power button on the family computer with my big toe. It clunks like a manual typewriter returning. […]