They treated him like a second-class citizen the entire time he was in the band.
Also he wanted to do a side project and James forbid it saying any time spent on a side project is time not devoted to Metallica. This was frustrating as he is a very creative person. James always wrote the bass parts and Jason had to play it as James had written and demonstrated. Diverdriver from Northern CaliforniaJason wasn't allowed to let his creative ambitions played on any albums.In 2003, Metallica made a song about their battle with Napster titled " Shoot Me Again," which appears on their album St. Dre) to follow suit, and Napster eventually went bankrupt and then out of business entirely. The lawsuit triggered other artists (including Dr. Napster was forced to ban more than 300,000 users and to pay Metallica damages. Metallica also wanted to ban every Napster user who illegally downloaded the song. The band filed a lawsuit on Apaccusing Napster of racketeering and copyright infringement, and sought $100,000 for each illegally downloaded song, which came to about $10 million in damages. Napster earned the ire of Metallica when a pirated demo version of "I Disappear" was released online without the band knowing or approving it.
No one was really sure where it would go, but it ended up exploding in popularity pretty quickly, and because it was a new technology, the rules governing it were basically nonexistent, meaning that artists had no protection over their music.
When Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker started Napster in 1999, the software let users share audio files over their computers digitally, so it became a repository for free music downloads. It's most notable for being the song that kicked off Metallica's legal battle with Napster. "I Disappear" is the second track on the soundtrack for the 2000 film Mission Impossible: 2.
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