at the center of their dispute is a music-sharing internet service known as napster.you have to start investing in the technology that comes after the compact disc." and they just refused to do it. - some of rock and roll's bad boys are picking a fight this morning with the internet site napster.com. - the lawsuits began when metallica heard on the radio a song that they hadn't released yet. ♪ ♪ - ♪ hey, hey, hey ♪ and metallica was like, "what? - ♪ it's time i disappear ♪ - on april 14th, metallica filed a lawsuit against napster for basically encouraging people to steal and trade our music illegally. - we started this thing called exmetallicafans.org. we're asking the community to completely ban and boycott metallica. - i'm glad you're an ex-metallica fan, because i don't want you to be a fan of ours if that's your attitude. - i can't speak for the other bands, but i embraced file sharing. if you wanna sing along, you know, if you have-- you know, you got it off napster, bro, please. our band was plucked out of obscurity and given a career because of napster. - ♪ bu

in the center of these clashes spirits stephanie, it was not like this in the beginning putative napster star out to be political. >> i think we became aware of a lot of things and for example i learned that my son was subjected to a lesson on white privilege and my sons are mixed race and i don't eat the school district telling them what to think about that or what it means for them and how they should see their friends in racial lenses. >> it is a fair point. the whole thing is even though it didn't start out to be political, guess what, it is a big factor in the 2024 race. >> moms and dads are winning th war that they which of their children for far too long. the only special interests represented of the adults the system. now the kids have a union of their own and they are called parents and politicians are paying more attention than ever. people like randy weingart are overplaying their hand and awaking a sleeping giant. >> the dry creek school distric has come out against kids keeping secrets from parents about their kids gender ideology . they said as a district we believe honesty

- napster's stealing from us straight up, and i'm gonna fight them to the death. - ladies and gentlemen

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we saw this in the music industry when napster came along and there were lawsuits around peer to peeron came along and they ended up liking the work. >> reporter: this is just the beginning of the battle. and we're all seeing major retailers like amazon try to control the surge in ai content. this is becoming a very real problem. i have spoken to authors who have seen their entire books copied, maybe a few words changed, but most of the pages duplicated, robin. they have no idea how that was done. they believe that it was ai generated. >> as you said, just the beginning. rebecca, thank you. coming up weight loss revolution, looking at the impact of drugs used for weight loss. the impact it has on your muscle mass. and next more ticket master trouble. this time it's olivia rodrigo's world tour that fans are fired up about. we'll have those details when we come back. ♪ with wet amd, sometimes i worry my world is getting smaller because of my sight. but now, i can open up my world with vabysmo. vabysmo is the first fda-approved treatment for people with wet amd that improves vision and d