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RIAA Wants $72 Trillion In Damages From LimeWire
buzzpatrol.com 6 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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RIAA Tries To Downplay Its Role In The Feds' Unjustifiable Censorship Of Dajaz1
techdirt.com 3 weeks, 2 days agoLast week, we had the story about the unsealing of the court records in the Dajaz1.com case . That revealed that the main reason why the feds (almost certainly illegally) held onto the domain name for over a year was that ICE had asked the RIAA for the evidence it needed (i.e., that Dajaz1 actually infringed -- criminally -- on its members' copyrights), and the RIAA had taken its sweet time responding. Ben Sisario, over at the NY Times, has an article noting the official RIAA statement on the matter. Both B
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