LimeWire in a sea of sharks. New lawsuit.
p2pnet view Music:- Hail, Hail, the gang’s all here.
Of sharks.
And they’re out to devour LimeWire and its boss Mark Gorton, whole.
RIAA lawyer Kelly M. Klaus recently went into overdrive suggesting LimeWire potentially owed Big Music an incomprehensible, mind-boggling amount of dollars for money allegedly lost because of alleged file sharing.
Based on his figures, p2pnet calculated it as $1.5 trillion.
On Slashparty, Miles made it not $1.5, but $15 trillion.
In fact, it was a mere $150 billion.
Klause, a la the RIAA, was fronting for Big 4 labels Arista Records, Atlantic Recording, BMG Music, Capitol records, Electra Entertaiment, Interscope Records, Motown Recording, Priority Records, LaFace Records, Sony BMG (?), UMG Recordings and Warner Bros Records.
It was like throwing chum into a sea of blood-hungry sharks, and now another eight are joining in the frenzy.
They’re National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) members including EMI, Sony/ATV, Universal Music, Warner/Chappell Music, Bug Music, MPL Music Publishing, Peermusic, and The Richmond Organization, says PC Magazine.
They’re suing LimeWire, Mark Gorton, COO and CTO Greg Bildson and the M.J.G. LimeWire Family Limited Partnership for “knowingly facilitating copyright infringement through its Web application”, says the story, going on >>>
The RIAA wanted the site shut down immediately, but the judge said on June 8 that LimeWire could remain open for at least another two weeks. At the time, LimeWire said a permanent injunction “could hold back the creation of new digital-music technologies that LimeWire is in the process of developing,”
The NMPA said its suit is being filed “as a related case” to the RIAA’s complaint.
LimeWire, meanwhile, appears to be viewing this as little more than part of friendly negotiations.
“We definitely want publishers at the table,” the story has LimeWire stating.
“We have had many promising meetings with labels, publishers, songwriters and artists alike about our new music service and a business model that will compensate the entire industry. Publishers are absolutely a part of that solution, and we’re hopeful that this action will serve as a catalyst to help us get to there.”
Stay tuned.
(Cheers, RW)
… and identi.ca
p2pnet – Does LimeWire owe the RIAA $1.5 trillion?, June 8, 2010
Slashparty – RIAA v. Limewire and some change, May, 2010
a la the RIAA – Does LimeWire owe the RIAA $1.5 trillion?, June 8, 2010
PC Magazine – LimeWire Sued (Again) for ‘Massive’ Copyright Infringement, June 16, 2010
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June 17th, 2010 at 11:22 am
Moral of the story: If you’re going to innovate, do it outside of US jurisdiction.
US courts are owned by the corporate establishment, and the judges know what side their bread is buttered on. Rock the boat, and by hook or by crook, you’ll be stopped in the land of the free and the home of the slave. No amount of legal perversion or logic twisting is too much when big corporations want something stopped. Look at the insanity of the Grokster case. Justice and the rule of law are a mere facade.
June 17th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
There is no justice and they will be no justice as long as these corporations of parasites are alive. We the people must destroy all these corporations of parasites by any mean possible. Fuck the law. There is no law. Let the strongest win.
These old and fat out of shape executives and lawyers do no stand a chance once we stop playing their game and play our instead.
June 17th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
That’s one thing that I don’t like about America. It’s where the rich rule and the poor suffer (not like it isn’t like that almost everywhere…but still). These parasites are trying to tell us how to live our lives without us fighting back. Well, we won’t make it easy for them anymore! We’ll boycott, protest, make petitions, and I’ll keep checking this site until I see the words ‘RIAA/MPAA goes bankrupt’!
June 17th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
I like the idea of solving this on our own terms, in our own way. They have all of the money, and they know that fact alone intimidates people. We all know that one on one, those lawyers and execs would be beaten to the ground visciously. But we dont own the courts. We dont make the laws. There is no real web sight within the limewire universe to be shut down. There are no real servers to disassemble. The RIAA is to damn stupid to realize that the program is on our computers and we create the network. I have mine running right now and theres not a damn thing they can do about it. After they win their big bad lawsuit, there wont be a damn thing they can do at that point either. We can prove it to them in a variety of ways. Such as; the day following the final judgement for limewire to cease and decist all actions, I plan to fire my limewire program up and continue downloading, with no fear in my heart at all. We may not have the dollars that the RIAA has, but I still own my contempt. I plan to show it in the form of continuing- business as usual. Hell wit ‘em. And if one of those lawyers ever develops big enough balls to face me over it, I will… well, just waiting for that day to come….. visciously.
June 17th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
“We definitely want publishers at the table,” the story has LimeWire stating.
That’s like wanting some sharks and a few crocodiles in the swimming pool.
June 17th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Moral of the story: If you’re going to innovate, do not form companies and stay anonymous.