Limewire owes $75 trillion

[rbnc]

Is there even that much money?

nope

http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock

Who does everyone owe this money to?

China.

[rbnc]

Is there even that much money?

Yes, though it is quite a lot. To put it in perspective the UK's GDP is about $2 trillion.

[hugh]

I was more posting that to show the monetary situation most countries are in. Obviously if for some unfathomable reason tomorrow we had to come up with 75 trillion earth dollars we could do it.

[alphacat]

If the defendants had access to that kind of cash - or even a line of credit that was a fraction of that - they could easily hire an army of mercenaries to take out each and every single entire recording industry bigwig involved in this suit...

Hypothetically of course.

[nowaysj]

If you could find people that are willing to kill other people for $12,500 a head, you could kill every single human on the planet.

Hypothetically, of course.

[aftee]

i love you

[Mr Hyde]

If the defendants had access to that kind of cash - or even a line of credit that was a fraction of that - they could easily hire an army of mercenaries to take out each and every single entire recording industry bigwig involved in this suit...

Hypothetically of course.

I was thinking that with Bernard Madoff whao had nicked 18 billion dollars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff) ......gone to prison but for that money thought he'd have put up a bit of a fight, or built some cool secret base.

[shaunlee0]

i heard warner brothers and the like employ people to put up fake torrents up online in a futile attempt to catch the ridiculous amount of people who illegally download stuff from the internet.

[profound]

haha!! Is Limewire still going? (well I guess not anymore) I havent used it since I was about 14-15 and FUCKED my mums laptop up with it.

²

[NilsFG]

I second dubloke. By the way, how the hell could you fuck up a pc with limewire? Did you literally search for porn and downloaded the first thing that popped up?

[profound]

I second dubloke. By the way, how the hell could you fuck up a pc with limewire? Did you literally search for porn and downloaded the first thing that popped up?

Titles were irrelevent mate, i just downloaded about everything that potentially contained hots chick having a go at eachother.
Once I fired up limewire though my pc was already going 50% slower, without doing/downloading anything......

Good times though

[borrowed]

If the defendants had access to that kind of cash - or even a line of credit that was a fraction of that - they could easily hire an army of mercenaries to take out each and every single entire recording industry bigwig involved in this suit...

Hypothetically of course.

I was thinking that with Bernard Madoff whao had nicked 18 billion dollars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff) ......gone to prison but for that money thought he'd have put up a bit of a fight, or built some cool secret base.

Yeah, but hes probably doing better in Federal than he would be say, shot to death on his rooftop by agents.

[deadly_habit]

i heard warner brothers and the like employ people to put up fake torrents up online in a futile attempt to catch the ridiculous amount of people who illegally download stuff from the internet.

problem is it would have to be real to hold up in court
"sir we logged his ip downloading a fake file named after our movie!"
"so he didn't actually download the movie?"
"errr he was trying to clearly..."
"get the fuck out of my court"

[nowaysj]

Well it could be real, but still, it could be argued that there was an implied license by wb to create a digital copy merely by making the torrent available for download.

[deadly_habit]

Well it could be real, but still, it could be argued that there was an implied license by wb to create a digital copy merely by making the torrent available for download.

there's so many untested precedents yet to be made to date and the riaa and larger corps are just using scare tactics to date.