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THIS DAY IN ROCK HISTORY: April 12th 2000

Metallica

Today was the day Metallica infamously filed a suit against Napster, Yale University, The University of Southern California and Indiana University for copyright infringement back when downloading was still big and scary. Think you know your ‘Tallica? Here’s a few q’s to put that knowledge to the test…

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