Record companies are suing Limewire for a mind boggling 75 T : Othor Games

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:45 pm

I'm not kidding, http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202486102650&Manhattan_Federal_Judge_Kimba_Wood_Calls_Record_Companies_Request_for__Trillion_in_Damages_Absurd_in_Lime_Wire_Copyright_Case

"Baio, who is scheduled to represent Lime Wire when the damages trial begins on May 2, joked that the money that the record companies sought from his client would be better spent on paying for health care or wiping out the national debt. "

Wow, I do not even know what to say. This is so insane that even Doctor Evil wouldn't call out such a ridiculously high amount of money in exchange for not destroying the entire world. But some worthless arrangements of electrons on a disk that with the correct equipment can be translated into sound waves that may or may not be artistically pleasing to the human brain is worth more then the entire world?!! I am speechless.

Woah :bonk:

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:38 am

I like how all their music they apparently lost money on is apparently worth ten times more money than currently exists. There is no physical way anyone in the world could have lost them that much money because there is no physical way that they could have GOTTEN that much money had the music not been pirated.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:52 pm

75 Trillion?!?!
Dose lime wire even have that much money? :huh:

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:51 am

Dose limewire even have that much money? :huh:

Nobody has that much money.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:20 pm

:rofl:

Do they really think this could be successful?

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:01 pm

:mellow:
Well, I wish him the best of luck in gathering that money...
.. Ahh, what am I saying? He has a few months, he'll be fine.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:39 am

Pfft you poor planets. 75 Trillion dollars? Here take my 75trillion dollar quarter svcker humans. Jeez what's the big problem. Hahahahaha that's insane.

Edit
Even the Double Dollar man is envious.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:17 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_gdp; I conclude that record companies are completely nuts.

Thirteen trillion more than the worlds combined GDP? Really?

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:19 pm

Boy, who would have ever seen this coming with the music industry's total lack of precedent in demanding unreasonably huge sums of money.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:49 am

Perhaps they're hoping to haggle. S'good to start high. lol

Music industry makes about fifty billion a year, right? Maybe they're making a prediction of how much they'd lose if P2P services were around long enough to really chip into their coffers... like... (in the voice of Doctor Evil) one hundred million yeeeears. Mua ha ha ha ha ha!

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:10 am

...:blink:...:lmao:...:rofl:...:facepalm:

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:26 am

prediction of how much they'd lose if P2P services were around long enough to really chip into their coffers... like... (in the voice of Doctor Evil) one hundred million yeeeears. Mua ha ha ha ha ha!

that plus a punitive damages multiplier

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:22 am

...:blink:...:lmao:...:rofl:...:facepalm:

This is exactly what I did when I read the article. I'm still rather tickled.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:40 am

Its obvious that they only want to shut it down..... and I agree. Not with the sum but with the fact that people have no right to think that they deserve free music, or free anything that someone else creates for that matter, unless of coarse they are giving it away for free.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:44 am

Somewhere, sometime, a CEO saw this figure and immediately went into a 30 day medical-vacation-coma-leave.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:19 am

Nobody has that much money.

Unless you're talking Zimbabwean dollars, in which case just about everyone has that much money -- including the poverty struck areas

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Perhaps they're hoping to haggle. S'good to start high. lol

That is highly likely.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:08 am

Its obvious that they only want to shut it down..... and I agree. Not with the sum but with the fact that people have no right to think that they deserve free music, or free anything that someone else creates for that matter, unless of coarse they are giving it away for free.

It seems unfair to me that the filesharing programs are what keeps getting targeted, though. As far as I know P2P is not illegal, and they can't individually check everyone's uploads to make sure nothing illegal is in there. It seems like suing a car company because bank robbers used one of their products for the getaway.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:15 am

:rofl:

Do they really think this could be successful?

It seems like the sort of thing where they sue them for an astronomical amount of money, the like of which they know they can never get so they have room to slowly bring it down as things proceed. The likelihood that this will even hit in the billions is unlikely. That is if they even get anything substantial at all. Let's see what happens.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:03 pm

-sigh- This is other humans doing this... we are related in race to these gits... I could cry. Ill go cry now. Cry and eat cookies.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:16 am

-sigh- This is other humans doing this... we are related in race to these gits... I could cry. Ill go cry now. Cry and eat cookies.

It could be worse, they could want Mr.MeowMeow...

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:57 am

THANK YOU!! finally something is being done about this.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:53 am

I bet it's some no-name lawyer outfit that just wants to make some money and a name for itself.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:25 am

THANK YOU!! finally something is being done about this.

Yeah, except that it's been years since Limewire was popular

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:57 am

Its obvious that they only want to shut it down..... and I agree. Not with the sum but with the fact that people have no right to think that they deserve free music, or free anything that someone else creates for that matter, unless of coarse they are giving it away for free.

I agree, but 75, 000, 000, 000, 000?
I think that's a bit excessive. While I hate pirating, the Music industry is making itself looking like a bunch of tossers here.

Yeah, except that it's been years since Limewire was popular

Really? All the cool kids at school had a cry when it was shut down.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:32 pm

I wonder how they came to this figure...