RIAA Goes after LimeWire 304
PCM2 writes "A coalition of major recording companies sued the operators of the file-sharing program LimeWire for copyright infringement Friday, claiming the firm encourages users to trade music without permission." From thge article: " The case is the first piracy lawsuit brought against a distributor of file-sharing software since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that technology companies could be sued for copyright infringement on the grounds that they encouraged customers to steal music and movies over the Internet. In the complaint, the record companies contend LimeWire's operators are "actively facilitating, encouraging and enticing" computer users to steal music by failing to block access to copyright works and building a business model that allows them to profit directly from piracy. "
OMG! The only ones left to sue... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:in related news... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh wait, I'm giving them ideas.........
Time to sue Sony... (Score:4, Funny)
They're still going after the wrong people... (Score:5, Funny)
Man, that's a downer (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Which is why... (Score:3, Funny)
And why stop there? Since blood can technically be used as a writing medium, the RIAA and MPAA will soon take the drastic step of suing every person on Earth with blood flowing in their veins.
Re:OMG! The only ones left to sue... (Score:5, Funny)
The first rule of UseNet is we don't talk about UseNet.
Re:in related news... (Score:4, Funny)
as well as making it much more difficult for him to download his favorite Britney spears' albums.
comparable case (Score:4, Funny)
so this means microsoft must be accountable for any damage that any worm, virus, trojan etc. does to any windows pc on this planet...
Re:OMG! The only ones left to sue... (Score:2, Funny)
"This is like no other pirate application we have seen before!!!"
Re:Which is why... (Score:5, Funny)
Wait a minute... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:OMG! The only ones left to sue... (Score:2, Funny)
They could start sueing makers of FTP software. Or Windows, without which "illegal" file shairing would drop to close to zero...
Re:OMG! The only ones left to sue... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:They're still going after the wrong people... (Score:3, Funny)
The RIAA needs to sue that bastard Ogg. I don't care that that bastard died a hundred and something tousand years ago. The RIAA should hire a crack squad of archeologists to dig his fossilized bones up and nail his ass in court.
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