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Metallica sue Napster, Universities for racketeering 14 April 2000 San Francisco metal quartet Metallica filed suit in Los Angeles last Thursday against San Mateo, California startup Napster and accused three American universities—Yale, Indiana U, and the University of Southern California—of encouraging students to illegally trade pirated music. The suit reads in part “Napster has built a business based on large-scale piracy... Facilitating that are hypocritical universities and colleges who could easily block this insidious and ongoing thievery scheme... The universities have elected not to block access to Napster, commenting that their only problem is a potential drain on their limited bandwidth availability, no doubt caused by the massive ongoing thefts of musicians’ intellectual property.” The suit alleges copyright infringement and racketeering as defined by America’s federal RICO act, and seeks at least US$10 million (£6.2 million) in damage awards. Napster is already fighting a lawsuit brought by the Recording Industry Association of America. A Napster lawyer told the press “The complaint reads like it was written to inflame the press and intimidate universities rather than to present legal issues to the court.” | Cnet story | | Billboard story | | discography | | sample | | top of page | |
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