The music industry wants LimeWire to pay up to $75 trillion in damages after losing a copyright infringement claim. That's right . . . $75 trillion. Manhattan federal Judge Kimba Wood has labeled this request "absurd."

http://www.pcworld.com/article/223431/riaa_thinks_limewire_owes_75_trillion_in_damages.html

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They want more money than the entire WORLD has. Interestingly spectacular.

Surely this is a sign of a serious mental illness?

Multiple choice question time!

Assuming they are after restitution on a per infraction basis and have credible evidence, the amount cited is:

a) Too much - lolwut phwoar etc
b) Too little - it'd be way more than that ; heaps of people go 24/7 for years etc
c) Irrelevant, null and void due to a non-existant suitable business model - downloades are merely providing statistical feedback
d) I'm not in a positition to comment due to bias or lack of facts
e) You haven't read the thread properly lolwut goody two shoes post medium clarifying image
f) Limewire is not responsible for the content being transferred via their service, null and void chase individuals
g) Set as such to make an emphasisising point proving example/pcdnt
h) This question is lacking options and needs user reply submitted amending

Let's make it fun and make it so you can choose multiple answers - I choose c 1/2 and a smidge of f and g. :)

lol
just when you think the RIAA couldn't become any more retarded

seems legit

seems legit

seems litigious more like

How come their EULA didn't protect them? I thought that is what those things are suppose to do in that it stops the company being sued because their users read it, but did not follow the outlined details.

A EULA has little to no legal weight, just like when Sony introduced the condition in the PSN EULA that you aren't allowed to sue them if you sign it.

The crappiest part of this is they start at 75 trillion, everyone goes "that's absurd"... so they lower it to 50 billion or whatever, and then people think "well, that's much more reasonable." When infact, it's still absurd.

Reminds me of this

http://www.ted.com/talks/rob_reid_the_8_billion_ipod.html

My experience with lime-wire about 3 years ago went like this.


Search : "Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood'
-enter-
44,000 hits
"Gorillaz - Clint eastwood hot young teen gets fucked 45"
"Gorillaz - Backdoor llama fisting 5 extended edition"
"Gorillaz Girl gives blumpkins while solving math"

etc.

So how much were they making before LimeWire?

So to put it into perspective, limewire has enabled the music and entertainment industry to miss out on tapping each person in the world, $11,000 dollars.

Future earnings.

that vid is AWESOME Herbal!