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Like plenty of bored rock stars before them, Weezer have taken up legal pursuits during their hiatus from such traditional musical pastimes as recording and touring (i.e. actually playing music). According to reports from TMZ.com and E! Online, the band filed a lawsuit against the Miller Brewing Company in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Thursday over three ads that ran in Rolling Stone in 2004.

The suit claims that Miller used the band's name and image without their permission, and, in return, they are asking for "all profits received by Miller and fellow defendants from the ads in question; punitive damages amounting to three times either the actual damages or the defendants' profits, whichever is higher; and an injunction against any further use of the band's image," according to the E! report. Weezer also named Miller's marketing company, Young & Rubicam, and the production company responsible for the layout of the ads, Giannini Creative Imaging, as defendants in the suit.

And just to add that extra dash of ridiculous to the mix, the band claimed that the other musical acts featured in the advertisements (including Audioslave, who filed a similar suit last year), are "bands and musical performers with whom [Weezer] do not wish to be associated in any advertisement." Those performers included Velvet Revolver, Bon Jovi, Puddle of Mudd, Trapt, and Incubus.

Come to think of it, we'd be a little pissed too. But don't Weezer have anything better to do?