Dr. Dre klaagt Napster & Napster gebruikers aan

Het wordt tijd dat Napster een legertje advocaten gaat inhuren, na de RIAA en Metallica komt nu ook Dr. Dre met een aanklacht tegen Napster. Dr. Dre gaat zelfs nog een beetje verder dan zij, hij wil ook de studenten aanpakken die zijn muziek downloaden (doet iemand dat dan? ):

Rap artist Dr. Dre sued MP3-swapping firm Napster today, adding a new layer of legal woes to the already besieged company.

But this time, the stakes are being raised: Dr. Dre also is targeting students at universities who are using the Napster software to download MP3 files, putting individual music listeners into the legal line of fire.

[...] Dr. Dre demanded last week that Napster remove his work from its service. But the company refused, saying it could only remove individual users identified as copyright violators.

In response, the artist is asking that the court shut down Napster and award damages of $100,000 per illegally copied work. That could amount to close to $10 million, according to the lawsuit.[break]Het volgende stukje is wel leuk, Dr. Dre is zelf ook niet zo onschuldig :[/break]In a coincidence of the courts, Dr. Dre himself was sued for copyright infringement last week. George Lucas' LucasFilm contends that the artist used the trademarked THX sound, which appears before many movies, to open his most recent album, even after being denied permission.