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RIAA Wants $72 Trillion In Damages From LimeWire
buzzpatrol.com 2 days, 22 hours agoThe bitter court dispute between the now defunct file-sharing site LimeWire and the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) took another dramatic turn today, when the RIAA tried claiming that the amount they are owed due to copyright infringement is a staggering $72 trillion! Judge Kimba Wood, who is presiding over the case, said that they had asked for an “absurd” amount, and said in recent report: “An award based on the RIAA calculations would amount to ‘more money than the entire music industry has
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No, The RIAA Is Not Asking For $72 Trillion From Limewire
techdirt.com 3 days agoIn the last day or so we keep seeing people send over variations on this story claiming that the RIAA claims it is owed $72 trillion dollars from Limewire . Many of the reports appear to originate from the NME post I just linked to, though I don't think that's accurate. The story is bogus in almost every way possible, and it's kinda sad that a ton of websites are repeating it as fact. If the basic statement sounds familiar, it's because the RIAA member labels did make an extreme request on damages last year
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