Limewire are being fined for HOW much!?

[LimewireClock]

Internet hacktivist Anonymous organised an attack, codenamed  Operation Payback, against the Recording Industry Association of America  (RIAA) website, following its request for $75 trillion (USD) in damages  from peer-to-peer site LimeWire. The DDoS was scheduled for Friday 25  March, at 7pm EST.
 I know: $75 trillion. That is *not* a typo. To give this context, if  you were paid $10,000/second, it would still take you about 1000 years  to make that amount of cash.
 According to ComputerWorld,  RIAA have requested LimeWire pay a whopping $150,000 for each download  of the 11,000 songs listed in the lawsuit, which was brought forward by  RIAA and 12 other recording industry peers.
 Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District  of New York rejected RIAA's request as "absurd", according to The Examiner. She rightly pointed out that this was more money than the industry had made in its entire history.
 Anonymous seemed to agree with the judge, and the Anonymous volunteer  cyber army was called in to join forces for a coordinated attack  against RIAA.

Source: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/03/28/anonymous-go-after-riaa-com-again/

[Slurpee]

Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected RIAA's request as "absurd", according to The Examiner. She rightly pointed out that this was more money than the industry had made in its entire history.

wow. a sane judicial reaction to an riaa lawsuit?

highly questionable.

[Sombra]

Limewire was mostly shit anyway

[MonsterMunch]

Don't copy that floppy!

[AC Slater]

Limewire is being fined for HOW much!?


And that's loadsamoney!

[NintendrCkolc]

eh, the RIAA will never be able to stop the internet. They need to give up already.

[Sombra]

Limewire is being fined for HOW much!?


And that's loadsamoney!

cash here, grab it all

[AbsintheClock]

Billions and billions...

[Topcatyo]

Can we sue the RIAA yet for wasting all of our time?  I've got albums to download.

[miracle fruit]

meh who uses limewire, they dont have any selection anyways. its a nice way to fuck up your computer, though.

does this genius RIAA know that you can use Audacity to record songs directly off of Youtube?

[buttplug]

Billions and billions...

marry me absinthe

[VuBawlsClock]

Why record when you can just download mp3? Were getting cheaper and lazier by the second

[Topcatyo]

meh who uses limewire, they dont have any selection anyways. its a nice way to fuck up your computer, though.

does this genius RIAA know that you can use Audacity to record songs directly off of Youtube?

There are websites that'll just convert the video into mp3 format for you, so you don't even need to record the Youtube videos.

[SockpuppetClock]

Money has no artistic value

[TequilaClock]

Charging people with more money than there is in the world is beyond the whole concept of money itself. It scares me how capital has become more valuable than the whole existence of a fucking planet.

[BluezombieClock]

Isn't 75 trilion de value or pretty much everything that exists put together?

[SockpuppetClock]

Tying monetary value to something potentially infinitely reproducible sounds like something that would destroy the value of currency, yet it doesn't, cause people are polite enough to buy things

[LimewireClock]

Footage of an RIAA board meeting
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Pretty much.

[RobClock]

Footage of an RIAA board meeting

This was my one and only thought.

[Kombucha]

And that's loadsamoney!

Wop your wad.