• LimeWire Being Sued for $75 TRILLION!
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[Quote] By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal, PCWorld Mar 26, 2011 5:44 AM 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." You're telling me. To put that number into perspective (I bet a lot of you didn't even know "trillion" was a real number), the U.S. GDP is around 14 trillion -- less than one fifth of what the music industry is requesting. Heck, the GDP of the entire world is between 59 and 62 trillion. That's right, the music industry wants LimeWire to pay more money than exists in the entire world. Popular file-sharing service LimeWire was shut down last October, after Judge Wood found them liable for copyright infringement in May 2010. According to Law.com, the RIAA and the 13 record companies that are suing LimeWire for copyright infringement have demanded damages ranging from $400 billion to $75 trillion, and have claimed that Section 504(c)(1) of the Copyright Act allow them to request damages for each instance of infringement where two or more parties were liable. In other words, the RIAA thinks it should be entitled to damages not only for the individual works, but for every time that work was infringed (i.e. downloaded by another user). At the moment, about 11,000 songs have been identified as "infringed" material, and each song has probably been downloaded thousands of times. The RIAA thinks it should be compensated for each individual download. Judge Wood disagrees. In a 14-page ruling (PDF), Judge Wood said that the music industry is entitled only to a "single statutory damage award from Defendants per work infringed," for several reasons, including "Absurd Result." According to the document, the "Plaintiffs' position on statutory damages also offends the 'canon that we should avoid endorsing statutory interpretations that would lead to absurd results.'" The document goes on to read: "As it stands now, Defendants face a damage award that 'could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, if not over a billion dollars.'" Judge Wood also points out that "if one multiplies the maximum statutory damage award ($150,000) by approximately 10,000 post-1972 works, Defendants face a potential award of over a billion dollars in statutory damages alone. If Plaintiffs were able to pursue a statutory damage theory predicated on the number of direct infringers per work, Defendants' damages could reach into the trillions. 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.'" This "absurd results" clause isn't anything new, Judge Wood points out. She mentions the 2010 Arista Records LLC v. Usenet.com, Inc. case, in which Arista Records requested the court calculate the damages by multiplying the maximum amount of damages ($150,000) by the number of infringements (878), or $131,700,000. The court found the defendants liable for $6,585,000, by multiplying the number of infringements by $7,500. Unfortunately, this still isn't great news for LimeWire -- while Judge Wood says the music industry is entitled to only a single statutory damage award per infringed work, there are still 11,000 works. That means LimeWire could still be liable for damages in excess of one billion. [/Quote] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztVMib1T4T4[/media]
This is really old, and it even says in the quote it's from 2011.
yeah this isn't really news, as it was posted early in 2011.
[quote](I bet a lot of you didn't even know "trillion" was a real number)[/quote] And the author is insulting peoples intelligence.
Goddamn Chris Pirillo uploading this shit today. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz3EwM0LSx8[/media]
Its one thing to post an article that was resurfaced but not specifically told it is old, but its another thing if you post one with the late date as the first line in the article. That takes some skill :v:.
does this amount of currency even exist? LimeWire is being asked to do an impossible goal
[QUOTE=Ownederd;36063382]does this amount of currency even exist?[/QUOTE] [quote]Heck, the GDP of the entire world is between 59 and 62 trillion. [/quote] Nope.
This article is old, but asking for 75 trillion, that's like someone(RIAA/MPAA) demanding the person who took a few movies or music illegally to pay 1 trillion dollars. But Limewire might be able to pay 400 billion(says range around 400 billion to 75 trillion).
News might be late, but this is still relevant [video=youtube;GZadCj8O1-0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZadCj8O1-0[/video]
Ok, we lose, how much do you want. 1 quantillion billion cafillion dollars... ...1, is that a real number, and 2, does your industry need ANYTHING NEAR that amount? ...no...
[QUOTE=Kel|oggs;36063122]Goddamn Chris Pirillo uploading this shit today. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz3EwM0LSx8[/media][/QUOTE] Jesus christ, what's with the mustache?
limewire is still around? people actually use limewire...?
[QUOTE=Pnukup;36064613]limewire is still around? people actually use limewire...?[/QUOTE] Yep. Whenever you need a 600kb installation of Windows XP or some dodgy illegal porn, where else do you go?
Demanding more money than there apparently is in the entire world? Gold star for you!
[QUOTE=Kel|oggs;36063122]Goddamn Chris Pirillo uploading this shit today. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz3EwM0LSx8[/media][/QUOTE] I didn't realise people even watched that smug twat :v:
How many fucking zero's?
Ugh, Limewire. I remember I was trying to download some movie I wanted to watch, the label and everything seemed right, but when it was done downloading and I opened up the file I found out it was CP instead. That was the day I deleted Limewire.
Okay, I'm against piracy and all, but every day it's getting harder to support them. Even if this article is a dinosaur :p
[QUOTE=Bryanrocks0;36065111]Ugh, Limewire. I remember I was trying to download some movie I wanted to watch, the label and everything seemed right, but when it was done downloading and I opened up the file I found out it was CP instead. That was the day I deleted Limewire.[/QUOTE] Didn't you check the file size? A picture of Civil Protection wouldn't be as large as a movie.
I remember using LimeWire when I was a fucking child. Everyone kept getting viruses because we were dumb.
Even in 2011 hadn't LimeWire been dead for years?
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKKHSAE1gIs[/media] This is pretty much the same thing :v:
Should've asked for 75 [B]billion[/B]. Why have trillions when you could have... [I]Billions?[/I]
[QUOTE=Sgt. Lulz;36065337]Should've asked for 75 [B]billion[/B]. Why have trillions when you could have... [I]Billions?[/I][/QUOTE] Because a trillion's more than a billion, numbnuts.
I'm pretty sure that amount of money doesn't exist.
Seriously think the guys suing is ran by Dr. Evil [QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;36065349]Because a trillion's more than a billion, numbnuts.[/QUOTE] Lol n00b no it aint xD
Hahaha the entire [B]global[/B] GDP is $63.12 Trillion
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