antigovernmentextremist:

Not The Onion:

It’s no secret that LimeWire was once a hotbed of peer-to-peer music piracy, but the RIAA has now attempted to sue it for $72 trillion - more money than exists in the world today.

LimeWire was shut down in October 2010, but litigation continues from music bodies around the world, including Merlin which represents independent labels. 

LTMC: Rob Reid gave an excellent TED talk awhile back demonstrating just how silly  the RIAA’s damages calculations in piracy lawsuits are.  One wonders how many more of these ridiculous lawsuits need to be brought before somebody in Congress decides to end this silly charade of rent-seeking by the RIAA and reform the DMCA damages provisions.

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    Not that I’ll ever have to worry about this :-P but I refuse to sign with an RIAA-affiliated label, and this is another...

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    ridiculous

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    see……..

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    This has got to be a hoax. I’ll wait until a major news thing picks this up — it’s just hard for me to believe. But then...

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    I was just linked to this: http://www.avclub.com/articles/updated-riaa-never-really-claimed-limewire-owed-it,75555/ It’s...

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    GIVE ALL THE MONEY

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    This is just so silly.

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