The drummer from former Gothic-Punk band Ink and Dagger, Ryan McLaughlin, is filing litigation against software giants Microsoft with claims that the company has infringed copyrights. He alleges that Bill Gates and his merry crew used the bands tracks in their Xbox 360 game, Amped, without the correct permissions.

Apparently the bands former, now discontinued, label “Initial Records” gave up the rights to tracks from their 1998 album “The Fine Art of Original Sin” yet were unauthorised to do so. The band fell apart in 1999, the tracks were not used in the game ’til 2001 and action is being bought almost 5 years later… it doesn’t look good for McLaughlin.