RIAA Goes after LimeWire

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...

[Anonymous Coward]

...are the operators of usenet.

Re:in related news...

[Travoltus]

The cops will be required by the **AA to scan all cars with special equipment that detects copyright infringing data on CDs and DVDs.

Oh wait, I'm giving them ideas.........

Time to sue Sony...

[DSW-128]

For making computers, and CD and DVD burners... They're the real enemy!

They're still going after the wrong people...

[RulerOf]

It's amazing to me that the RIAA hasn't figured out that they really need to sue those bastards that wrote TCP/IP and didn't think for a minute to include DRM in the original description... They've made so much money since all the networks that operate on the protocol so viciously promote piracy of copyrighted material. They should pay for their lack of foresight.

Man, that's a downer

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank God I use eMule.

Re:Which is why...

[Hotawa Hawk-eye]

No, they will first sue International Paper [wikipedia.org], Bic [bicworld.com], Dixon Ticonderoga [wikipedia.org], or Crayola [crayola.com]. After all, paper, pens, pencils, and crayons can all be used to make copies of pages of song lyrics or a scene of a movie.

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...

[Alan]

*shhhhhhhhh*

The first rule of UseNet is we don't talk about UseNet.

Re:in related news...

[hedwards]

Satan should really be suing *AA for violations on his patent on devious and inane abuses of courts;
as well as making it much more difficult for him to download his favorite Britney spears' albums.

comparable case

[AlgorithMan]

microsoft is actively encouraging hackers to write virusses, trojans, worms etc. (since the protection is so poor)
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...

[Xtravar]

They'll act like it's some new technology...

"This is like no other pirate application we have seen before!!!"

Re:Which is why...

[Barny]

You still have blood in you, and its pirated blood at that!

Wait a minute...

[Der Huhn Teufel]

So why aren't we suing the RIAA for giving us the music in the first place, thus allowing the music to be pirated?

Re:OMG! The only ones left to sue...

[Frosty Piss]

...are the operators of usenet.

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...

[Alsee]

The second rule of Usenet is You Can 3nlarge Your P3N!S!

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Re:They're still going after the wrong people...

[Alsee]

And what do all of those copyright infringing TCP/IP computers run on? Electricty. And how is 90-odd percent of that electricity generated? By burning stuff... with ...[dun-dun-DUUNNNNN]... FIRE.

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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