Limewire owes $75 trillion

collige · Post by **collige** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:18 pm

http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC. ... right_Case

apmje · Post by **apmje** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:21 pm

dubloke · Post by **dubloke** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:23 pm

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.

kidshuffle · Post by **kidshuffle** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:24 pm

o shi-

LACE · Post by **LACE** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:26 pm

"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.'"

Heh..

larspro · Post by **larspro** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:29 pm

oli90 · Post by **oli90** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:34 pm

Did the group suing think for even a fragment of a millisecond that they could win that case?

Is there even that much money?

hugh · Post by **hugh** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:45 pm

oli90 wrote: Is there even that much money?

nope

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

oli90 · Post by **oli90** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:52 pm

hugh wrote:
oli90 wrote: Is there even that much money?
nope

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

Who does everyone owe this money to?

melodium747 · Post by **melodium747** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:54 pm

lol haven't heard of people using limewire since a very long time ago.

the wiggle baron · Post by **the wiggle baron** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 12:12 am

does this not just perfectly illustrate the futility of these battles if they're still fighting a case from something thats been surpassed a loooong time ago

HamCrescendo · Post by **HamCrescendo** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:47 am

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:37 am

Very good danrev. Just saw a Dirty Harry movie, the villain, Scorpio wanted $100,000. Jokes.

the wiggle baron wrote:does this not just perfectly illustrate the futility of these battles if they're still fighting a case from something thats been surpassed a loooong time ago

uh... yeah!

AllNightDayDream · Post by **AllNightDayDream** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:56 am

More and more people are educating themselves about this and scare tactics don't work anymore.

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 3:59 am

What scare tactics don't work?

AllNightDayDream · Post by **AllNightDayDream** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 4:05 am

Suing ordinary people (and now profit-less organizations) for ridiculous amounts of money. It's painfully obvious they're doing this for the headlines, to keep people from downloading music.

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 4:19 am

But they don't work? Individuals can still fruitfully be sued. And for significant amounts of cash. US federal law provides $150,000 in statutory damages for wanton copyright infringement. That is just plain fact. And those are statutory damages, that means the law says if someone wantonly violates your copyright, boom you get $150,000 (per instance!).

AllNightDayDream · Post by **AllNightDayDream** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 4:33 am

Yeah that's how it's all presented but then every case gets settled for a couple thousand. Pure publicity. This case with limewire has already been thrown out.

AxeD · Post by **AxeD** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:46 pm

So that number is without all the damage it caused to people's computers?

rbnc · Post by **rbnc** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:30 pm

hugh wrote:
oli90 wrote: Is there even that much money?
nope

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

That is quite irrelevant

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