Metallica Delivers List of Alleged Music Pirates to Online Firm Metallica Delivers List of Alleged Music Pirates to Online Firm Paul Jones
In a clash between hard rock and hard drives, the band Metallica has delivered the screen names of 335,000 people it accuses of music piracy to the online company it says aided the theft.
Drummer Lars Ulrich helped wheel in 60,000 pages of documents Wednesday he said proves the band's music has been traded illegally using Napster Inc. software.
"Napster will review the over 300,000 fan names that Metallica turned in as soon as possible. If the claims are submitted properly, the company will take the appropriate actions to disable the users Metallica has identified," Napster attorney Laurence Pulgram said.
Metallica said the alleged violations of its music were monitored and logged by NetPD, a computer consulting firm that found thousands of Napster users making Metallica songs available from April 28-30.
Ulrich suggested the music traders were cowards, using high technology for low-down theft even as some fans broke their Metallica CDs and others waved anti-recording industry banners outside Napster headquarters.
