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q news: Metallica's manager calls YouTube 'the devil'

q news correspondent Mitch Pollock scans the latest arts and entertainment headlines to keep you in the know.
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich became the face of anti-Napster in 2000, this time the online enemy is YouTube. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

q news correspondent Mitch Pollock scans the latest arts and entertainment headlines to keep you in the know. Today:

  • Back in 2000, Napster was Metallica's foe as they took a stand against illegal downloading. Now the enemy is YouTube. Metallica's manager called the video streaming service "the devil" and argued that if something isn't done, that will be it for musicians. YouTube argues that ads can be placed around musicians' videos, from which they earn money, but that the accounts are set up by labels, who aren't transparent with their artists when it comes to those revenues. 
  • The Guggenheim has a new piece of art from the once-retired Maurizio Cattelan — and it's a toilet. A gold toilet. The artwork won't be sitting with the other museum pieces, it will be in one of the bathrooms and open for use. And you won't believe what Cattelan named the piece.
  • Happy Shadiversary! It has been one whole year of the new q with our host, Shad. He may not have a favourite moment, but that's only because he can't pick one. "Every day, there's something special that happens."
    (Ben Shannon, Ben Jamieson/CBC)