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Knyte
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Apparently the RIAA legal staff is being headed by Dr. Evil:
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Record companies asked the courts for $75 trillion in damages (that is trillion, with a "T") in the Lime Wire copyright case. That's reasonable, right?
The record companies, which had demanded damages ranging from $400 billion to $75 trillion, had argued that Section 504(c)(1) of the Copyright Act provided for damages for each instance of infringement where two or more parties were liable. For a popular site like Lime Wire, which had thousands of users and millions of downloads, Wood held that the damage award would be staggering under this interpretation. |
This points out 2 things:
1. The RIAA are batshit insane.
2. The DMCA needs to be completely rewritten.
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Methid Man
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The RIAA can go to hell.
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The Opponent
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I hope at least some of those damages goes to either the economy or Japan. Also,
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Douche McCallister
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GPFontaine
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| Douche McCallister wrote: |
| Pay them and move on... |
I actually think this will hurt the RIAA. They may be doing it to close down Lime Wire, but what they are actually doing is saying:
1/3 of the worlds human wealth = licensed music from the last 50 years
This is idiocy, and morons may not have been able to see it in the past, but even they can't look past a group demanding $75,000,000,000,000 in damages.
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SNESGuy
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username
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they should give them a postdated check
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The Opponent
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| GPFontaine wrote: |
| Douche McCallister wrote: |
| Pay them and move on... |
I actually think this will hurt the RIAA. They may be doing it to close down Lime Wire, but what they are actually doing is saying:
1/3 of the worlds human wealth = licensed music from the last 50 years
This is idiocy, and morons may not have been able to see it in the past, but even they can't look past a group demanding $75,000,000,000,000 in damages. |
Five times the United States' deficit.
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Ky-Guy
Title: Obscure Nintendo Gamer
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I haven't given much a of a damn for the RIAA since they got a hold of Napster. It still feels like yesterday that I downloaded free music on that.
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Atma
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Hah, obviously the RIAA is insane.
Also Excel, what's that picture from?
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The Opponent
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The time I tried to buy a laptop security cable from Best Buy last December. I used a rewards coupon I got from their website and it must have rolled the price into negative or something since I printed it at low quality. It actually happened twice in a row and I had to say no both times. In retrospect, I should have said yes just to see what would happen. My better thinking said it would very bad, but now I think it would have been very funny. At the very least, if anything happened, it would have gotten me on the news. The only thing that worries me is why $20 trillion dollar purchases are even possible on that system.
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Atma
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| The-Excel wrote: |
| The time I tried to buy a laptop security cable from Best Buy last December. I used a rewards coupon I got from their website and it must have rolled the price into negative or something since I printed it at low quality. It actually happened twice in a row and I had to say no both times. In retrospect, I should have said yes just to see what would happen. My better thinking said it would very bad, but now I think it would have been very funny. At the very least, if anything happened, it would have gotten me on the news. The only thing that worries me is why $20 trillion dollar purchases are even possible on that system. |
Seriously, its crazy their system even acknowledges that price.
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Dr. Jeebus
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If the RIAA sued the government for this much money, if the ENTIRE budget went to paying them it would still take like 20 years to pay this off. I think that's a good sign that it's an unreasonable amount.
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GPFontaine
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Can the RIAA be sued by the government for wasting time and tax payers money?
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sidewaydriver
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I think everyone should sue everyone else until we all forget who owes what to who and just wipe the slate clean.
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The Opponent
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My best idea to fix the economy is just that: blow it all up and start over from scratch. Shows how much I know about economics.
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sidewaydriver
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Seriously, it's all imaginary anyway.
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Shut up, Dorn
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Listen, the RIAA is due a great sum of money. $75 trillion is a laugher. Even if they won the case, there's no reason the people could ever, EVER get them that much. I would assume they just want to send that number out to scare any people (see: idiots) away from potentially doing this again.
Piracy is bullshit, whether you want to admit it or whether you like it or not (I don't mean this in a pushing manner, just as a musician myself, I understand why it's BS).. The RIAA does suck, but is owed. Not $75 trillion, though. If you make music, you deserve to be compensated.
It's just not socially relevant anymore, and the RIAA is cleaning up the mess. Using fecal matter.
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Doddsino
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| GPFontaine wrote: |
| Can the RIAA be sued by the government for wasting time and tax payers money? |
That's exactly what should happen. When you're asking for this kind of money, then you should honestly be the ones that end up paying a large sum. When someone is sued, I believe that the sum total should be accounted for though actual statistics rather than BS "damage claims".
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TheRoboSleuth
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75 trillion isn't intimidating. Its silly, its practically a made-up number, and they would be better off asking for bison dollars.
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Ky-Guy
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| Shut up, Dorn wrote: |
Listen, the RIAA is due a great sum of money. $75 trillion is a laugher. Even if they won the case, there's no reason the people could ever, EVER get them that much. I would assume they just want to send that number out to scare any people (see: idiots) away from potentially doing this again.
Piracy is bullshit, whether you want to admit it or whether you like it or not (I don't mean this in a pushing manner, just as a musician myself, I understand why it's BS).. The RIAA does suck, but is owed. Not $75 trillion, though. If you make music, you deserve to be compensated.
It's just not socially relevant anymore, and the RIAA is cleaning up the mess. Using fecal matter. |
Yeah, I'm pretty similar minded when it comes to video games, myself. I always found it bullshit when some jackoff downloads the latest video games in an emulator, rather than pay for them at the store. By that, I mean current generation video games.
To be fair, I haven't downloaded music in years, and I've grown much more appreciative for actually buying the product. It supports the industry and the people who work in it; these people spend a lot of time making the things that entertain us, from video games to music, and like you said, they deserve some compensation for it.
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Dr. Jeebus
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| Shut up, Dorn wrote: |
Listen, the RIAA is due a great sum of money. $75 trillion is a laugher. Even if they won the case, there's no reason the people could ever, EVER get them that much. I would assume they just want to send that number out to scare any people (see: idiots) away from potentially doing this again.
Piracy is bullshit, whether you want to admit it or whether you like it or not (I don't mean this in a pushing manner, just as a musician myself, I understand why it's BS).. The RIAA does suck, but is owed. Not $75 trillion, though. If you make music, you deserve to be compensated.
It's just not socially relevant anymore, and the RIAA is cleaning up the mess. Using fecal matter. |
I don't think anyone here was saying "yay piracy!' just that the fact that they think they're a $5 trillion a year industry is hilarious.
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aeonic
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Yeah, I'm not really about piracy, but this is just a ridiculous situation, and I think that in the long run, it really works against the RIAA because people see this and think, "Well, they're a bunch of choads, so I think I'm going to stick it to them and download a bunch of stuff."
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Black Zarak
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| sidewaydriver wrote: |
| I think everyone should sue everyone else until we all forget who owes what to who and just wipe the slate clean. |
You can't say that! I'm suing!
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bassguy252
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| The-Excel wrote: |
| My best idea to fix the economy is just that: blow it all up and start over from scratch. Shows how much I know about economics. |
Isnt that what they tried to do in fight club?
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Let's assume it's a mixture of the two!
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