Record companies request $75 trillion in damages from Limewire
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And the slide into obsolescence continues for the record companies... 
Dusty Ayres
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^For the big ones, sure, unless they can become distributors of music instead of makers. They should step aside for the smaller ones who give a shit about music, and just distribute those smaller company's output instead-it's those new companies that will give birth to better artists, and are doing so already.
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With digital downloads, why keep the companies around? This thing only proves the point: record companies exist solely to be money-grubbing scum.
$75 trillion dollars?! 
Jesus Christ, someone responsible for that was obviously high on something really, really good. That's more than the combined G.D.P of the entire planet.
Jesus Christ, someone responsible for that was obviously high on something really, really good. That's more than the combined G.D.P of the entire planet.
This is evidence for the absurdity of much of existing copyright law.
Do people still use Limewire? I haven't used it in at least ten years. Reading the name makes me nostalgic. I just assumed it went out of fashion since I lost interest a long time ago. 
Nowhere Man
Commodore
Limewire is no more I think. I was using it for years till this happen, then they directed me to frostwire. I use it now, but it looks like that site will be down soon also.Do people still use Limewire? I haven't used it in at least ten years. Reading the name makes me nostalgic. I just assumed it went out of fashion since I lost interest a long time ago.
Hilarious.
The judge should award the amount. Then the IRS can come and collect their fair share and wipe out the national debt.
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If you read the article and the decision, you'll see nobody is asking for $75 trillion. Actually, I have no idea where the author of this article got the specific number of $75 trillion, he seems to have just made it up.
The article claims that they are asking for damages ranging from $400 billion to $75 trillion based upon various interpretations of Section 501(c)(1) of the Copyright Act.
Without record companies, music wouldn't even exist.
From what I can see, that number seems to be the result of the author of the article taking the record companies' interpretation of the law and extrapolating potential damages out to the most absurd number possible. I can't find an article that says how much money they're actually asking for, though I haven't looked that hard.
I understand that people hate the recording industry with a fiery passion, but that's not really an excuse for accepting preposterous "news" like this at face value.
Level 2 Diagnostic, in the 14 page opinion of judge Kimba Wood, that was referenced in the article linked by the OP, you can see that the quote,
did indeed come from that judge's opinion, on page 6 (where the word trillions is underlined). Furthermore, on that same page of the opinion, it states explicitly, in footnote 3, that the
In other words, the Plaintiffs have not yet even put a cap on how much they are asking for. You can't find an article stating what's the most they're asking for, because they've specified no upper limit. As of the writing of the opinion, March 10, 2011, all they've alleged is a lower limit.
The key words there being "if" and "could". It's all hypothetical, I see nothing that indicates these companies actually are looking to get trillions of dollars, let alone the specific number of $75 trillion.
So if they don't set an upper limit, that means they want $75 trillion? Seems like you could just easily say they want $100 trillion, or $200 trillion, or eleventy-five bazillion dollars, and it would be just as factual.
