RIAA sues LimeWire for $75,000,000,000,000

[Admiral Yi]

Good showing that all those "damages" are taken out of thin air. 

Actually the opposite.  The requested damages were derived by a formula.

When the formula returns a demand that is greater than the GDP of the Earth that formula is irretrievably broken.

One advantage of not cropping quotes is it lets you see the statement I was responding to.   

[Josquius]

How could we make limewire and the likes legal?

I'm really tired of the record industry and their greed.
We are in the internet era. No fucking way I am going to buy a CD.
I think we should abandon the album formatt completely.

http://www.spotify.com/

[Fireblade]

Limewire is still around?

[garbon]

If they had to pay 1% of this as a court fee (which is forfeited if they lose) they wouldn't come up with ridiculous stuff like that. American judicial system = broken.

I'm glad that some is willing to stand up and extol the virtues of the Polish legal system.

[Grey Fox]

Limewire is still around?

It died back in November.

[Caliga]

There are other tools out there smiliar to Limewire that still work (e.g. Frostwire)... or so I've heard.

[Zeus]

I don't know why they'd bother to shut down Limewire. Another program that works exactly like it will, if not already, crop up and be able to be used by the masses. Besides, other programs, such as Napster (is that still around?) and, like Caliga said, Frostwire. Seems to be a waste of judicial time and expenses.

[Ed Anger]

Poor people and their piracy. Tsk tsk

[Faeelin]

I don't know why they'd bother to shut down Limewire. Another program that works exactly like it will, if not already, crop up and be able to be used by the masses. Besides, other programs, such as Napster (is that still around?) and, like Caliga said, Frostwire. Seems to be a waste of judicial time and expenses.

By that logic should we not prosecute shoplifters? That's been going on since there were stores. Clearly these actions hae some deterrent effect, even if it's now clear how great it is.

[Neil]

I don't know why they'd bother to shut down Limewire. Another program that works exactly like it will, if not already, crop up and be able to be used by the masses. Besides, other programs, such as Napster (is that still around?) and, like Caliga said, Frostwire. Seems to be a waste of judicial time and expenses.

If you don't protect your copyrights, stuff might slip into public domain.  It seems that public domain is bad.

[garbon]

Poor people and their piracy. Tsk tsk

Actually I think rich people like to steal as well.

[The Minsky Moment]

If they had to pay 1% of this as a court fee (which is forfeited if they lose) they wouldn't come up with ridiculous stuff like that.

Read more carefully.
RIAA already won the case in summary judgment.  The ruling referred to in the OP was in connection with a separate trial on damages.  So a loser pays rule would not deter this as the RIAA already won.

[DGuller]

What a way to add legitimacy to your claim.

[The Minsky Moment]

What a way to add legitimacy to your claim.

Does not seem to have hurt RIAA.  Shortly after this ruling (which was last month BTW), LimeWire made a couple more motions to limit damages: one to limit damages to per album infiringement rather than per song, and another to block recovery against LimeWire where the RIAA members already successfully sued the individual making the downloads.  Lime Wire lost both motions.

[Slargos]

Poor people and their piracy. Tsk tsk

Actually I think rich people like to steal as well.

If anything, they like it far more.