Judge Pulls the Plug on LimeWire
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOW HOW WILL I DOWNLOAD MY MUSIC!!
I mean um, yes. booo down with this very bad program that gives people free music. thats terrible.
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NOW HOW WILL I DOWNLOAD MY MUSIC!!
I mean um, yes. booo down with this very bad program that gives people free music. thats terrible.
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Why don't they just claim 20 trillion dollars a month in damages?
The RIAA manages to lose 50 million a year in legal fees for no results, yet retains the support of it's members. You'd swear they are not actaully interested in money.
The RIAA manages to lose 50 million a year in legal fees for no results, yet retains the support of it's members. You'd swear they are not actaully interested in money.
Down with this sort of thing. [http://www.hairybaby.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage4guys&product_id=187&category_id=13&category_parent_id=1&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=26]Darth_Dude said:
It's going to make the obscenely rich slightly richer. That's all this will do.
It's just one group of thieves against another. Difference being one gives people free stuff and asks nothing in return and the other tries to ruin the lives of of otherwise innocent people by suing them into financial ruin. Really, this isn't advanced calculus folks. As long as groups like the MPAA and the RIAA keep up with these heavy handed tactics the music, movie, and game industries will never win in a court of public opinion and we . . .errr I mean "the pirates" will always come out smelling like a rose.
Is that 500 million a month based on 1.00 a song or is based on the 30 dollars some bands charge for 9 songs?
sup guyz just a couple of points
Piracy will always exist, yes, but this idea that the music industry's failure to incentivize the purchase of its products is somehow responsible strikes me as a bit off the mark. We're talking about music here. You're not comparing one brand to another. The product is the incentive. What I think you mean is that you want them to lower/eliminate the price for music, but that leads to the second point: If you don't like the price, do without. This applies to music, movies, games, books, whatever. You don't get to just take someone's creation for nothing because you don't happen to care for their pricing policies.
Well, you do, I suppose, but it's utterly indefensible. You're not standing up for your rights or striking a blow against The Man or fighting for a new and better world. You're just being a douche.
Anyway, this is all kind of OT. Clearly, people still used LimeWire, although it had fallen out of favour in recent years. The ruling now, so long after it was really relevant, speaks to the fact that while the online world moves at light speed, the courts do not. As our current system stands, it will always be playing catch-up.
And I have no idea where the $500 million per month figure comes from, aside from a statement by the RIAA. I'd love to know how they worked out that figure. I'll dig deeper for it later but in the meantime, if anyone else knows how they came up with it, please post it here. I have a strong dislike for pirates but throwing around numbers like this puts the RIAA in the same class of bullshit-flingers as far as I'm concerned.
Piracy will always exist, yes, but this idea that the music industry's failure to incentivize the purchase of its products is somehow responsible strikes me as a bit off the mark. We're talking about music here. You're not comparing one brand to another. The product is the incentive. What I think you mean is that you want them to lower/eliminate the price for music, but that leads to the second point: If you don't like the price, do without. This applies to music, movies, games, books, whatever. You don't get to just take someone's creation for nothing because you don't happen to care for their pricing policies.
Well, you do, I suppose, but it's utterly indefensible. You're not standing up for your rights or striking a blow against The Man or fighting for a new and better world. You're just being a douche.
Anyway, this is all kind of OT. Clearly, people still used LimeWire, although it had fallen out of favour in recent years. The ruling now, so long after it was really relevant, speaks to the fact that while the online world moves at light speed, the courts do not. As our current system stands, it will always be playing catch-up.
And I have no idea where the $500 million per month figure comes from, aside from a statement by the RIAA. I'd love to know how they worked out that figure. I'll dig deeper for it later but in the meantime, if anyone else knows how they came up with it, please post it here. I have a strong dislike for pirates but throwing around numbers like this puts the RIAA in the same class of bullshit-flingers as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah, that's about the way I felt. It's complete bullshit that number that they just yanked out of thin air, and if you want to compound 500 mil a month x 12 months x 10 years, I'm sorry, but do they ACTUALLY expect to get all that money? What are they going to do, sue their great great grandchildren for damanges some 170 years down the line?Halyah said:
Sad news for my friend (he uses Limewire) is this just in the US or every wheres? (I know, it's probably a stupid question) I don't think these people (supreme court and what not) know how great these music down loaders are, I can get songs I wouldn't even be able to find on a CD or songs that are so old they wouldn't be on a CD period.
Yes, I know that caving in against pirates won't stop them. What I meant is that we should make them irrelevant, make them not even matter. Giving people incentive to actually BUY the songs means more profit for the corporations, more profit for the bands, and more legally purchased songs and albums for the consumer.Timbydude said:
Especially in the economy we're in, very few people are going to pay 39 bucks for 3 albums, but what about 3 for 30? 2 for 24? Or the regular 13.00 an album? You see, that encourages people to buy more music. If you can sell 2 albums for every 1 that's pirated, then pirates are out of the equation. You're making a profit.
And consumers are actually happy that they don't have to go through all this DRM esque bullshit that so permeates the movie and games industry today.
No shit, it's complete crap, it would mean that every single citizen in America pirated $2 worth of music a month.Nifty said:
It would mean Limewire cost the music industry $60 billion dollars, lol.
I doubt it's that much... I mean... 500 million is 60 billion a eyar.... Bullshit.
how can they claim they could be earnign tha tmuch? It's unfathomable tehy coudl be that stupid
how can they claim they could be earnign tha tmuch? It's unfathomable tehy coudl be that stupid