RIAA Sues LimeWire For Trillions, Judge Finds Claim 'Absurd'

Source: RedOrbit

More than 18 months after a federal judge ordered LimeWire to disable its filesharing service, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has reportedly filed an astounding $72 trillion lawsuit against the now defunct peer-to-pe ...
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Moonrise Kingdom movie review: Clever or just cliché?

Source: She Knows

Set in 1965, many of the scenes in Moonrise Kingdom are shot in square frames, with head-on angles. This reflects the seemingly perfect New England community in which the story takes place. Compare the perpen ...
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RIAA Wants $72 Trillion in Damages From LimeWire

Source: Buzzpatrol

The 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 infringe ...
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No, The RIAA Is Not Asking For $72 Trillion From Limewire (Bad Reporters, Bad)

Source: Techdirt

"Plaintiffs are suggesting an award that is more money than the entire music recording industry has made since Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877," Wood wrote, citing a Lime Group court filing referri ...
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Music: Newswire: Updated: RIAA never really claimed Limewire owed it $72 trillion—that's "trillion" with a "T"

Source: The A.V. Club

The legal case between LimeWire and the RIAA has been going on for some time now, but it wasn't until recently that the RIAA really put a figure on the amount of damages they think they're owed by the now-defunct filesharing service—and it's a doozy. ...
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RIAA Sues Defunct Music Downloading Service ‘LimeWire’ For $72 Trillion

Source: KCAL Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The Recording Industry Association of America is reportedly suing now-defunct music downloading service LimeWire for $72 trillion. Yes, we said trillion. “An award based on the RIAA calculations w ...
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Source: Catholic Exchange

All the Facebook tabulation of recent days — whatever it may have meant to Mark Zuckerberg and his brokers — brought to certain others in the great extended American community a certain sense of relief. It is not essential — ...
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Source: Hacker News

Computing pioneer Alan Kay tells us that a computer is “an instrument whose music is ideas.” This seems like a beautiful metaphor, until you realize that we have somehow ended up in a world where the profession ...
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