Music Industry sues Limewire for 75 TRILLION... lolz ensues

cherryghost

I'm supposed to be away for the weekend, but this had me in stitches.

http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=88432

The RIAA is asking for $75 trillion in damages from LimeWire for illegal file sharing and copyright infringement. Judge Kimba Wood has called the damage amount “absurd” and contrary to copyright laws.

Using a formula that multiplies the number of users involved by the number in infringements the total amount demanded by the RIAA could vary anywhere from $400 billion to $75 trillon.

"As defendants note, plaintiffs are suggesting an award that is ´more money than the entire music recording industry has made since Edison´s invention of the phonograph in 1877,´" Manhattan federal district court judge Kima Wood said.

Lets put this in perspective. Less than half the entire population of the world has internet. If they are claiming 75 trillion dollars in damages, and its about a euro a song, that equates to almost 40GB of pirated music in each of our computers for an average sized song (give or take 4-5mb)

The MAFIAA are such retards sometimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTmXHvGZiSY

stupidusername

ok.

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edwinkane

cherryghost wrote: »

The MAFIAA are such retards sometimes.

Calling them "retards" is immature, and suggests you may not have the firmest grasp when it comes to tactics in a legal process.

W.Shakes-Beer

I would like to point out that this, indeed, is an epic fail.

Doom

cherryghost wrote: »

I'm supposed to be away for the weekend, but this had me in stitches.

http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=88432



Lets put this in perspective. Less than half the entire population of the world has internet. If they are claiming 75 trillion dollars in damages, and its about a euro a song, that equates to almost 40GB of pirated music in each of our computers for an average sized song (give or take 4-5mb)

The MAFIAA are such retards sometimes.

Damn, I'm only up to 15gb.......

Mike 1972

Feck the record industry

Limewires should be sued by their userbase for being such a crap piece of software (KaZaa and Bearshare were even worse mind)

In fact I wouldnt be suprised if all three were put out by the record industry to put people off filesharing

squod

Every user on limewire should be suing the music industry for it's use of contractors and third parties to contaminate files with viruses then upload them onto the internets.

Limewire users have the stupids..

Spunge

They should sue The Internet instead, i hear everyone gets their music from there.

AhSureTisGrand

They should sue the radio stations for giving away free music

Crann na Beatha

This post has been deleted.

Fully sure this was gonna link to the onion... Classic.

flash1080

W.Shakes-Beer wrote: »

I would like to point out that this, indeed, is an epic fail.

Indeed it is.

Mrmoe

Will they take a cheque?

mikom

Spunge wrote: »

They should sue The Internet instead, i hear everyone gets their music from there.

AhSureTisGrand wrote: »

They should sue the radio stations for giving away free music

I wouldn't be surprised if the fucktards tried to sue an echo for sharing music.

It's no wonder I haven't bought any music for the past ten years.

joshrogan

What could you buy for 75 trillion dollars?

Mr E

Ireland's debt?

Feeona

cherryghost wrote: »

I'm supposed to be away for the weekend,

Away from the internet?

Faith+1

Frostwire must be pissing themselves!

twinQuins

I'm firmly convinced, at this stage, they're just making up random figures and hoping one of them appears acceptable.

Sanjuro

People still use Limewire? Is Napster still knocking about too?

Samba

edwinkane wrote: »

Calling them "retards" is immature, and suggests you may not have the firmest grasp when it comes to tactics in a legal process.

Agreed, very immature, however it should also be pointed out to you fine sir, this is the after hours forum and not the law forum.

I won't begin to describe what the tone of your post suggests about you :rolleyes:

Perhaps in future you might reconsider your posting tactics and actually try and back up your point with relevant information pertaining to the discussion, rather than expecting everyone in the after hours forum to have a 'firm grasp' of the legal process.

Inverse to the power of one!

So the output of Amy Whitehouse and Kanye West is worth a year and a half of the the worlds GDP?!?

http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=ny_gdp_mktp_cd&tdim=true&dl=en&hl=en&q=world+gdp

I didn't know my ears were so privileged! Even if I poured liquid gold through them, I don't think I'd be getting my value according to the RIAA!

haydar

I thought the RIAA had disbanded!!!

Mike 1972

No youre probably confusing it with that protection racket law firm in the UK (ACS law)

smk89

edwinkane wrote: »

Calling them "retards" is immature, and suggests you may not have the firmest grasp when it comes to tactics in a legal process.

What part of $75 trillion did you not understand?

Just for reference the GDP of the USA is $14 trillion. They are asking for that, 5 times over.
This is not just retarded, its breakneck retarded.

pragmatic1

Maybe the music industry should stop putting out shyte, disposable music thats overpriced. Fuk them.

Biggins

edwinkane wrote: »

Calling them "retards" is immature, and suggests you may not have the firmest grasp when it comes to tactics in a legal process.

I was going to post something witty and clever and then I though "Aaa feck it - this is After Hours"

So.....



Suck it up bad boy!

Ardennes1944

Limewire? pfft Frostwire although now eircom has driven me to downloads.nl

Biggins

joshrogan wrote: »

What could you buy for 75 trillion dollars?

A 10 cent gob-stopper.

AhSureTisGrand

Inverse to the power of one! wrote: »

So the output of Amy Whitehouse and Kanye West is worth a year and a half of the the worlds GDP?!?

MBDTF was pretty sweet in fairness

ScumLord

That sounds fair, do they want that in million dollar bills or space diamonds?

minidazzler

mikom wrote: »

I wouldn't be surprised if the fucktards tried to sue an echo for sharing music.

It's no wonder I haven't bought any music for the past ten years.

If you are serious, are they really the reason you don't pay for music or are you just rationalising?

wal100

Wondering if the Government will back them ? ( tax reasons ,of Course )

mikom

minidazzler wrote: »

If you are serious, are they really the reason you don't pay for music or are you just rationalising?

Reasons at a rough estimate:

40%.... I don't like being played for a mug (25 + Euro for a CD back in the day)

60%.... I'm a tight fucker (I have enough to pay for that I can't get out of, so anything I can, I will)

Biggins

In case it was missed by some, Italy is now trying to sue Yahoo over the fact that some stuff can be found through their search engines!

See: http://gigaom.com/2011/03/24/mamma-mia-italian-ruling-on-piracy-puts-websites-on-notice/

...So if Yahoo or Google search functions are too good, they are target possible for the companies to sue!
More madness!

Chuchoter

Wasn't limewire mostly tentacle porn? I could never find music there :rollseyes:

RichieC

Fkuc the recording industry, support great artists. not them ****ing leeches.

Biggins

RichieC wrote: »

Fkuc the recording industry, support great artists. not them ****ing leeches.

Metallica has a lot to answer for.
They started this whole ball rolling.

JBnaglfar

Biggins wrote: »

Metallica has a lot to answer for.
They started this whole ball rolling.

Yes, and now the napster founder may buy their label, the Warner Music Group :pac:

sock puppet

minidazzler wrote: »

If you are serious, are they really the reason you don't pay for music or are you just rationalising?

Of course it's just rationalising (not mikom specifically but generally). Lets face it CDs are much cheaper than they used be yet most of us probably download even more music nowdays.

Biggins

JBnaglfar wrote: »

Yes, and now the napster founder may buy their label, the Warner Music Group :pac:

:pac:

Wouldn't that be fun for a while! :pac:

Sonics2k

No really, people still use Limewire?

The hell, why not just go back to Netscape while you're at it.

Biggins

Sonics2k wrote: »

No really, people still use Limewire?

The hell, why not just go back to Netscape while you're at it.

Stuff Netscape!
IE6 is where its at!

Cybertron85

Shower of greedy pricks, artists will always benefit from more exposure because real fans will pay top dollar to see them at live concerts & films being released in cinema are constantly breaking box office records.

Gimme gimme gimme more more more

Naikon

Usenet is yer only man.

RichieC

Biggins wrote: »

Metallica has a lot to answer for.
They started this whole ball rolling.

To this day I curse Lars name and don't listen to their music.

Biggins

RichieC wrote: »

To this day I curse Lars name and don't listen to their music.

Your not on your own. Lars and co lost a LOT of fans and he found that out quickly after he started the whole fiasco.

davoxx

i don't pirate music .. i remix it .. at the beginning i say 'hey hey it's davo' and then at the end i say 'awhh yeah' .. that's fair usage ...

Hank_Jones

So basically, the music industry completely missed the boat on file sharing when it was started,
then had no control over how big it got and now want to sue people for outsmarting them.

Probably a bunch of CEO's in a room somewhere picking out yachts they are going to buy from the money they are looking to make.

Reminds me of Rupert Murdoch and Google.

this is arse

Is it $75 trillion Narnian dollars they are suing for?