Fox Recording Studios recently filed charges against Napster and their usage of MC Hammer's music. Hammer persuaded the studio to press charges last summer after the recording artist discovered many discrepancies in misusage of his music. Napster entered the public eye in 1999 after a heated debate accusing the company of promoting music piracy. An attorney for Mr. Hammer read a letter from the rapper. "No one is snatching my music. I mean ****, I have seen people download the ******* Osmands, but my stuff just sits." 

Hammer has started many campaigns to launch the excitement for pirating his music, including launching his own music exchange site in 2000 called HAMPSTER. This site has recently failed and has just been reopened at a children's clothing supplier. Hammer feels that Napster did not do enough to persuade the public to share his music and is now asking for mental and physical damages up to 45 million dollars. "Mr Hammer feels that if he is to win this case, it would allow him to quit the car wash and once again begin work in the studios."