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[Azazello1313]

RIAA Sues Defunct Music Downloading Service ‘LimeWire’ For $72 Trillion

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The Recording Industry Association of America is reportedly suing now-defunct music downloading service LimeWire for $72 trillion. Yes, we said trillion.

“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,” Judge Kimba Wood states in documents filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

It’s seeking compensation for each download, but with the estimated worth of the entire planet being roughly $60 trillion, RIAA certainly won’t be collecting that much cash.

Edited by Azazello1313, 24 May 2012 - 02:59 PM.

[westvirginia]

Don't have time for the reading - how did they justify their demand?

Edited by westvirginia, 24 May 2012 - 03:28 PM.

[matt770]

Aim high, then hope to settle for something reasonable like say, 1 or 2 tril.  But with Limewire being defunct, they probably only have $500 billion on hand, tops.

[Savage Beatings]

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...but with the estimated worth of the entire planet being roughly $60 trillion, RIAA certainly won’t be collecting that much cash.

Did Dr. Evil come up with the dollar amount?  

[TimC]

I remember when Skins lost to me in the Huddle fight, he served me with a lawsuit for eleventy quat-loos. I paid him off by anally raping him every Thursday night at 6:30 in my Tom Landry fedora while he wore his game-worn Sonny Jergunson cup. He seemed happy with the settlement.

[bpwallace49]

Savage Beatings, on 24 May 2012 - 04:19 PM, said:

Did Dr. Evil come up with the dollar amount?