Friday 25 March 2011

Illegal MP3's and the $75 Trillion Lawsuit.

Well it seems Limewire is in a bit of trouble as they get sued for damages of up to $75 Trillion by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America)

The RIAA had contends that LimeWire has enabled potentially thousands and even millions of people to illegally download one or more of over 11,000 songs. As a result, the association said its members are entitled to statutory damages for every single illegal download.

An award based on the RIAA calculations would amount to more money than the entire music industry has made since Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877. I didn't think anybody still used limewire anyway.

Original article can be viewed here

18 comments:

  1. Whoa I thought it was dead too

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  2. I thought everyone switched to Frostwire, but they're still being sued?

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  3. I used to get virus's from these all the time. Has being years since I used them. Are they safe thesedays?

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  4. That's nonsense! limewire it's just a way to share! They won't (the RIAA) realize how stupid their claims are.

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  5. WTF. What, do they expect the entire country to fold unto itself and dump all of the GDP into this lawsuit or something? crazy. if anything, this will just spur the movement towards free and open file sharing.

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  6. 75 TRILLION, whoa, that made my head spin.

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  7. wow limewire is still up and running? I thought it got shut down years ago =0

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  8. Limewire is for 12 year old girls and the elderly that havent discoverd the power of torrents.

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  9. torrents are for 11 year old girls and the senile who have yet to discover the power of TOR.

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  10. i forgot about limewire man, wow but that sucks hardcore for them

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  11. Aw man, limewire is one of my favourite sharing programs. Followed! alphabetalife.blogspot.com

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  12. There goes internet piracy.
    This is wrong man....
    Followed!

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  13. The RIAA is totally wrong, the music industry is still using their old business model and expects us to be little obedient dogs and buy cd's at high prices where half of the songs or most likely 80% of the content sucks!

    Ofcourse we can download our songs at an 1 dollar/euro price but still not all content is available in such a way

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  14. Hahahah, I have quite a couple thousand songs on my ipod.

    Does this mean my ipod is worth $75 trillion?

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  15. yea...lime wire is old school...reminds me of napster

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