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Psst. Hey buddy? Can we borrow $75,000,000,000,000?

zarq — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:30:16 -0800

Earlier this month, thirteen record labels tried to claim that Limewire was liable for between $400 Billion and $75 Trillion in damages. (For some perspective, the world's GDP in 2011 is expected to be a mere ~$65 billion.) Judge Kimba Wood called the assertion 'absurd' in a 14 page opinion. (pdf) Judge Kimba Wood made clear in a 14 page opinion that she found the request “absurd” and claims that it stretches copyright laws to their breaking point. She didn’t entirely side with the defendants, though, and said the damages should at least be one damage awarded per work, rather than per instance of infringement, which will still form quite a hefty bill. The defendants seriously-but-humorously note that the “plaintiffs are suggesting an award that is more money than the entire music recording industry has made since Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877.”

P2P is a sin

PenguinBukkake — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:15:26 -0800

P2P is a sin [bugmenot]

Google maps 37Signals with Flickr iPod.

loquacious — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:06:07 -0800

Cory Doctorow visits a Radio Shack. via keswick and MeCha

WTF!?! Everyone's favorite band (back in high school) Metallica is suing Napster and a handful of universities

mathowie — Thu, 13 Apr 2000 23:03:59 -0800

WTF!?! Everyone's favorite band (back in high school) Metallica is suing Napster and a handful of universities for unlawful trading of their music. This is ridiculous, and I hope it doesn't set a precedence. If anyone would just slap a revenue model on napster so artists could get paid for their work, none of this piracy crap would happen. And Metallica, what about the other apps that do the same thing, are you going to sue them too? And what about every other band on earth? What do you expect to get out of universities, tighter controls over bandwidth, or student monitoring of internet usage? What about every cable modem and DSL provider that lets people use Napster, are you going after them too? Why don't you sue everyone on earth that's heard your songs but didn't pay for them? Side question: Is it better to burn out or fade away?