April 28, 2000

Metallica Sues Universities and Napster, Charging That Students Engage in Music Piracy

By SCOTT CARLSON

The rock band Metallica has filed suit against three universities and Napster Inc., whose popular MP3-sharing software lets users exchange music files over the Internet. The band said Napster, Indiana University, the University of Southern California, and Yale University encourage students to pirate Metallica's music. The band soon announced that it would drop Yale from the suit, however, after university officials said they would bar the use of Napster on Yale's

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