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Daily Game News reports that "Attorneys for the Grammy award winning heavy metal band Metallica filed a lawsuit yesterday against Harmonix and Activision (who recently acquired Red Octane) for copyright infringement. The suit accuses the three gaming companies of illegally distributing copies of Metallica songs in the upcoming and highly anticipated games Guitar Hero III and Rock Band, both due out in late 2007.

The suit alleges that both companies planned to package and distribute Metallica music through their video games in what lawyers characterized as a "licensed music to player" system, or LM2P network. Metallica is fearful that album sales could decline if their fans were able to simply walk into any Gamestop or Best Buy and purchase an $80 video game that contained one of their songs."

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When asked to comment, Gamestop representatives asked reporters if they were looking forward to Halo 3 and if they would like to maybe pre-order a copy to make sure they got one at the release.

ROFL!

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Thank you Metallica for furthering the growth of P2P and forcing diversification! I will still never buy you shit!

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Metallica Suing Everyone! Oh, it's just a hoax.

Source: AntiMusic

The web was on fire this week with news that Metallica was suing game makers for copyright infringement. Dailygaming posted what is now claimed by many to have been meant as a satirical article about Metallica suing Harmonix and Activision over placement of their song "One" in "Guitar Hero 3" and "Rock Band".

The Metallica camp quickly denied the claims. It is unclear whether the original article was originally posted on the sites message board and then picked up as a news item. Attempts to pull it up now result in a system error message. However, the article quickly spread across the web and the text is as follows: Attorneys for the Grammy award winning heavy metal band Metallica filed a lawsuit yesterday against Harmonix and Activision (who recently acquired Red Octane) for copyright infringement. The suit accuses the three gaming companies of illegally distributing copies of Metallica songs in the upcoming and highly anticipated games Guitar Hero III and Rock Band, both due out in late 2007.

The suit alleges that both companies planned to package and distribute Metallica music through their video games in what lawyers characterized as a "licensed music to player" system, or LM2P network. Metallica is fearful that album sales could decline if their fans were able to simply walk into any Gamestop or Best Buy and purchase an $80 video game that contained one of their songs.

"The band learned its lesson the hard way with file sharing in the late 90s," counsel for Metallica told reporters in a statement released soon after the filing. "This time they want to do a pre-emptive strike before the music gets out there."

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