LimeWire Sued for $75 Trillion, Judge Denies

[fonzy]

LimeWire should sue for 100 Trillion for wrongful damages.

 

[yrmoma]

This is the single most preposterous successful lawsuit. That's like suing car companies if you loved one was slain by a motor vehicle. People use products, regardless of the legality.

 

[mchuf]

[citation][nom]rmmil978[/nom]75 trillion dollars? That's it, just to see the look on the judge's face I'm going to sue my brother for a quadrillion dollars for breaking one of my toys when I was 6.[/citation]

But if you take today's corporate thinking, you never owned those toys. You merely had the license to play with them. So technically you owe the toy industry money for violating their TOS because your brother played with those toys (and breaking them) without a license.

 

[Guest]

The music industry should be slapped with a stiff penalty for wasting the courts' time.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Things are getting out of hand.

 

[back_by_demand]

It's like Austin Powers
"Ok then, we hold the world ransom for 100 Billion dollars!"

 

[omnimodis78]

[citation][nom]f-14[/nom]read the first page of any book printed in america.[/citation]
Yeah, I hear you brother, but I think there are some pretty interesting variables to consider. Such as, international laws, do copyright laws actually address file sharing? Are the standards applicable? If this was as black-and-white as the lawyers try to make it out to be with their scare tactics, then wouldn't there be a lawsuit at every single turn. all the time? It always seems to me that they're trying to hold onto loopholes, that the politicians are trying to figure out how to address this issue - doesn't that indicate that there's no clear cut resolution to this issue. I still think that if Tom's wrote on this, a smart but easy to understand story, it would be a very popular read indeed.

 

[wolfram23]

Apparently, they don't bother with the fact that at least a couple million users are also Canadian or in Canada... where it's 100% legal to download music and movies for free (for personal, non profit use)

 

[jecastej]

I know record labels are protected by laws but who is protecting us from record labels? Well, at least some rational judges.

If "anyone" had to pay for every track or video or movie would "anyone" ever spent as much as he/she downloaded. This is a hypothesis that big companies "use" to their side to produce those amazing numbers. And this is only for Limewire but how about for the total amount in the whole planet. (Absurd x absurd).

In my personal experience I always preferred very high quality engineering or expertise and that was very limited on services like Limewire. So anyway I replaced those junky files with legal purchases on Amazon and iTunes. At least the ones I really care, so I owe very little or nothing to anyone. But I can only speak for myself.

I like the convenience of internet and now I use iTunes and Amazon, but I am starting to miss video stores and record stores everywhere. I miss the pleasing experience to have the quality objects in my hand and I want somehow something back. Perhaps an interactive universal application on full screen I could play on many devices with plenty information will be enough. Not necesserly iTunes and probably something very specialized and sustainable.

 

[djsting]

[citation][nom]yrmoma[/nom]This is the single most preposterous successful lawsuit. That's like suing car companies if you loved one was slain by a motor vehicle. People use products, regardless of the legality.[/citation]

Lets take it a step further. Lets say I just bought a pickup truck, an F150 if you will, and I'm transporting pirated copies of CD's. That's the only reason i purchased that truck. The truck itself has 100's of legit, legal uses, but I'm only using it to sell pirated CD's. Using this logic, Ford is responsible for my piracy.... :/

I say use all the money they spent on legal fees and find some real talent. When you have artists like Ke$ha and Justin Beiber, I'm surprised anybody is downloading at all. You'd have to pay ME $75 trillion to want to hear any of that garbage.

 

[blubbey]

I should sue them for a few billion for boggling my mind on how they think they should get that sum.

On a rather bizarre and slightly related note regarding djsting's comment, Ford tried to sue Ferrari for the use of the F150 name in case people become confused (F150 because it's Italy's 150th year of unification). Ford's being F-150 and Ferrari's F150. Now, one is a Formula One single seat racer, the other a pickup. Who will get those confused?

 

[rohitbaran]

LOL!

 

[Guest]

I don't waste my time listening to any of the garbage the music industry has put out for many years now. There is so much fabulous really great music that has been produced in the past, if you take the time to look for it, its out there. It's just young kids wasting their parents' money on the latest pop stuff because they don't know better. When they become adults they will hopefully become exposed to good music. If the adults here older than 20 don't do something to educate, promote, preserve and make great music accessible, then yes when we are old we will have to listen to crap music because that's all that will be out there. The best way we can fight mediocre/crap the music industry is putting out is to make sure as many young people as possible get to hear and appreciate really great music. There is huge universe of music that has been recorded already, many lifetime's worth starting from wonderful classical music, opera, early blues, swing, 1920s-30s jazz, big band, 50s, 60s, 70s, ethnic music from other places - hawaiian, tahitian, arabic/Middle Eastern, indian, salsa, bachata, merengue, cumbia, vallenato, bolero, mambo, son, ache, zouk, bossa nova, samba, tango, calypso, carribean, reggae, African, Chinese, etc share your favorite music with others, then educated/aware young people won't waste money on crap.

 

[Guest]

The music companies can sue anybody they want but they will never stop us from sharing files. Music is 100% free and gets more free and available year after year. People have downloaded tens of thousands of songs through my Limewire app which by the way still works perfectly well almost 6 months after Limewire was supposedly shut down. Music companies: we will DANCE ON YOUR GRAVES!!!!! Long live piracy!!! Mark Montgomery NYC, NY boboberg@nyc.rr.com

 

[papalarge123]

im actually surprised i haven't seen SKY in the courts yet, the way these companies think, and some of the absurd ideas of copyright laws around at the moment, as i said, surprised sky isn't in court yet,
sky viewers are able to view virtually every latest and greatest song in the industry, most of the newest films and alot of shows that are available on DVD,
but then they have the record option, which allows the viewer to make a copy of the songs, vids/movies and so on, this then allows the option to be sent to the PC to be recorded to a dvd or storage drive of some sort,
doesnt this break the copyright laws in any way,
just thinking out loud, so if i am wrong, sorry.

 

[chrisv815]

This is why I don't buy any new music except from small indie artists.
Of course I am lucky, as I am in my mid 30's so I am ok with mostly old CD's from the 80's and 90's, new indie stuff and podcasts in my music player.
SCREW off sony capital and the rest of you bloodsuckers !!

I also refuse to by Sony computers cameras and all the rest.

 

[Guest]

They're using the maximum penalty per user to come up with that enormous figure. If I were a member of limewire, I probably would not have downloaded more than a hundred songs; an approximate value of $100.00. I don't know how large the average user's file library is, but the songs definitely should not be valued at more than $1.00 per person. In addition, I doubt the record companies receive 100% gross proceeds, it's probably closer to 75 cents per song. Also, will they be sharing the settlement with the artists whose works were traded illegally?

 

[herpity]

That's way over 9000 dollars.

 

[liveonc]

Isn't it sweet if you could just say that you had $75 Trillion, because someone owes you $75 Trillion? Where will you spend that $75 Trillion!? (that someone owes you)

 

[gorehound]

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