Limewire being sued for 75 trillion

[Melon Hunter]

(Also, where the hell does that GIF avatar for permabanned users come from?)

GIF avatar for permabanned users??? They have the same ones they had prior to banning.

Uh... look at any of the banned users in this thread. There's a GIF of a guy in a hospital bed greeting his friend, only for his friend to pick him up and slam him into the bed, with the word 'BANNED' coming up at the bottom. Then he does it again, and this time it says 'PERMABANNED', and the dude in the bed starts crying. Unless this is just a Pub Club thing.

I've never seen that on any banned users ever o__O

OK, any banned user's avatar appears to me as this:

I am beginning to doubt my own perception =P

 

[DoPo]

OK, any banned user's avatar appears to me as this:

I am beginning to doubt my own perception =P

Huh? That's totally not on my page. A Pub Club benefit maybe?

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

OK, any banned user's avatar appears to me as this:

I am beginning to doubt my own perception =P

I am a Pub Club member, and I am not seeing that avatar for the banned users.

Just the standard "greyed-out" versions of the last avatar they had.

 

[JoJo]

OK, any banned user's avatar appears to me as this:

I am beginning to doubt my own perception =P

Huh? That's totally not on my page. A Pub Club benefit maybe?

Can't be, I'm Pub Club and I don't see that either o.0

 

[DoPo]

OK, any banned user's avatar appears to me as this:

I am beginning to doubt my own perception =P

Huh? That's totally not on my page. A Pub Club benefit maybe?

Can't be, I'm Pub Club and I don't see that either o.0

Well, umm, I don't know then. I can see three possibilities in that case:

1. the Escapist is trolling us. (unlikely, there are better ways to generate lulz)
2. Melon Hunter is trolling us. (not very likely)
3.

Spoiler: Somebody else is trolling us (the most likely)

 

[DANEgerous]

That is Music industry math for you. From 2005 till now the service iTunses had eliminated 500 billion music industry jobs!

But that is more than the population of all of humanity but a factor of like 95! Also iTunes has employes.

SHUT UP! IT HAS TAKEN 500 BILLION JOBS!

I mean honesty how can you sue for more money than your entire industry makes?

Every time you pirate a copy of a song the music industry takes a 150,000 USD loss. Here look at this.

 

[JoJo]

OK, any banned user's avatar appears to me as this:

I am beginning to doubt my own perception =P

Huh? That's totally not on my page. A Pub Club benefit maybe?

Can't be, I'm Pub Club and I don't see that either o.0

Well, umm, I don't know then. I can see three possibilities in that case:

1. the Escapist is trolling us. (unlikely, there are better ways to generate lulz)
2. Melon Hunter is trolling us. (not very likely)
3.

Spoiler: Somebody else is trolling us (the most likely)

I don't think Melon Hunter is trolling us because I've seen that referred to on another thread a week or two back, sadly I can't remember which. Might be the work of Kross methinks.

 

[Xifel]

I made some not to good math, with xkcd's money chart and a calculator:

*The RIAA sued LimeWire for an amount of money that is 89,5 times the cost of United States wars. And when I say war, I mean all of them, from Revolution War to Iraq.

* It amount RIAA sue for is 10 trilion dollar more than the annual GDP of the entire world.

I have to go into the music business!

You joined in 2007, surely you of all people wouldn't perform such an evil, necromancy!

Holy crap, the news in my nation sucks! This was in the papers TODAY! So I didn't really look at the dates here.We should be better in Sweden, we are basically the Tortuga of the vast internet sea!

Still, my necromancy was pretty successful, this is were the party is at now

 

[mad825]

I can see more law suites following this, every coprataion will be dogfighting on who gets paid first.

 

[Wintermoot]

kinda reminds me of the scene in Austin Powers where Dr. Evil is holding the world hostage for more then the entire world,s economy.
Dammit do these guys at the RIAA know how much money that is?! it,s probably more then enough to buy your own country!

 

[Mr.PlanetEater]

I love how this thread was Necro'd and then a post later derailed into a discussion about someone seeing an animated GIF for perma-banned users. Which by the way, do want*.

*By which I mean I want to see the animated avatar for all banned users from now on, because its hilariously dickish.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

So to stop piracy the RIAA essentially want to bankrupt the entire world? Hahaha!

Not even buying every cd/vinyl/casette ever made would cost anywhere near that figure. Oh and just how much of this 75 trillion is going to the original artist? Because I estimate it will be between jack shit and bugger all.

 

[penguindude42]

I can only imagine this happening in their offices.

 

[Antari]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/223431/riaa_thinks_limewire_owes_75_trillion_in_damages.html

So pretty much, the RIAA think that limewire owes them more money than the world currently has. This is getting rather ridiculous I would say.

If this has been posted before, sorry guys

As usual RIAA is about as intelligent as a smooth stone in a river. Limewire didn't create the network that stuff runs on. It origionated with a company and program called Gnutella. And by its very design, it can't be stopped. So of course they are as pissed as can be. Limewire won't have a hell of alot to worry about, because they were just making a redesign of an existing system. They didn't create it, and therefore can't be held responsible for it. All they did was rewrite it in java and make it look pretty.