Hollywood gathers to pick over Limewire’s corpse Movies studios are moving on the defunct Limewire, filing a complaint in a US Federal Court to take their cut from the company’s copyright infringments. Following a 2010 summary judgment against the company in a case brought by record labels, the company last year settled with the music industry majors for $US105 million. That …
Oh, no, of course they didn't!
'Judge Kimba Wood revealed that the record companies, seeking statutory damages against the music-sharing service, are seeking damages predicated on the “number of direct infringers per work” – leading to a damages claim of as much as $75 trillion dollars (according to Wikipedia, total global GDP is around $69 trillion)".'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/24/judge_slaps_music_biz/
I don't know if the world would be a better place , but, shouldn't society have the opportunity to find out. In fact we should seriously a society and gene pool spring clean. We also include politicians while we're at it. Any other parasitic professions that we could include in the same spring clean?
They're not going to end up with any money out of this but then again, they're most likely only hoping to create a legal precedent that can be called upon and used/misused in the future for their next legal attack on whatever new/current file sharing service becomes the next MPAA/RIAA public enemy Number 1
That's been the pattern for as long as people have been using computers and modems. One of the early "hacking" trials appeared to use a grossly inflated value for one of the illicitly copied documents, even though it could, as I recall, be bought from the company, on paper, for some trivial amount.
The plaintiffs make dodgy claims so often that, if it were noticed, they'd struggle to get any more cases heard. They're serial liars, and if that isn't contempt of court, I'm not sure what would be.
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