Post: The $75,000,000,000,000 lawsuit against LimeWire
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03-25-2011, 11:01 PM
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I-MilkShake-I
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No, that is not a typo. LimeWire is being sued for more money than what physically exists as cash on the planet today. Apologies if you folks already discussed this, but perhaps one more refresher just to grasp the scope of it all:
Does $75 trillion even exist? The thirteen record companies that are suing file-sharing company Lime Wire for copyright infringement certainly thought so. When they won a summary judgment ruling last May they demanded damages that could reach this mind-boggling amount, which is more than five times the national debt.
Manhattan federal district court judge Kimba Wood, however, saw things differently. She labeled the record companies' damages request "absurd" and contrary to copyright laws in a 14-page opinion.
The record companies, which had demanded damages ranging from $400 billion to $75 trillion, had argued that Section 504(c)(1) of the Copyright Act provided for damages for each instance of infringement where two or more parties were liable. For a popular site like Lime Wire, which had thousands of users and millions of downloads, Wood held that the damage award would be staggering under this interpretation. "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," she wrote. "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.'"
No, that is not a typo. LimeWire is being sued for more money than what physically exists as cash on the planet today. Apologies if you folks already discussed this, but perhaps one more refresher just to grasp the scope of it all:
Does $75 trillion even exist? The thirteen record companies that are suing file-sharing company Lime Wire for copyright infringement certainly thought so. When they won a summary judgment ruling last May they demanded damages that could reach this mind-boggling amount, which is more than five times the national debt.
Manhattan federal district court judge Kimba Wood, however, saw things differently. She labeled the record companies' damages request "absurd" and contrary to copyright laws in a 14-page opinion.
The record companies, which had demanded damages ranging from $400 billion to $75 trillion, had argued that Section 504(c)(1) of the Copyright Act provided for damages for each instance of infringement where two or more parties were liable. For a popular site like Lime Wire, which had thousands of users and millions of downloads, Wood held that the damage award would be staggering under this interpretation. "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," she wrote. "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.'"
03-26-2011, 02:43 PM
#80
juddylovespizza
I'VE GOT JUNGLE FEVER
03-26-2011, 02:50 PM
#81
Mr.Kane
Greatness
Originally posted by Silent
Limewire is amazing, I Was paying for it about 2 years ago, They are a great!
Why? You could of used a torrent, or frostwire (I heard it was made to be like a free limewire pro) I torrented it once and I think Limewire was shit anyway. YT, torrents and mediafrie are much easier ways to get music as some songs are not on there and the quality isnt that great on limewire
^ is just my opinion and personal experience
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