Record companies request $75 trillion in damages from Limewire

[bigdaddy]

It doesn't matter if it's a trillion dollars or 1000 trillion, it's still insane and finally a judge saw that.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Copyright infringement allows for minimum damages of $750 per person per infringed work, up to $150,000 if the person acted willfully. You can get $75 trillion if you claim the maximum penalty for 500 million instances of infringement--which is not that many if you consider how long LimeWire was around and how many users it had.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I had no idea Dr. Evil was in the music industry.

 

[bigdaddy]

Copyright infringement allows for minimum damages of $750 per person per infringed work, up to $150,000 if the person acted willfully. You can get $75 trillion if you claim the maximum penalty for 500 million instances of infringement--which is not that many if you consider how long LimeWire was around and how many users it had.

Which is insane, and that's what the judge seems to think too.