LimeWire Recalls Massive Music Industry Lawsuit
A social media post from the official LimeWire account highlights a historical legal battle with the music industry, referencing a staggering $72 trillion lawsuit. The post questions the existence of such a massive figure and concludes with the defiant statement, "still not paying." The image accompanying the post features a gavel resting on legal documents alongside the iconic LimeWire logo, emphasizing the absurdity of the astronomical damages once sought against the file-sharing platform. This serves as a reminder of the intense legal conflicts that defined the early era of digital music distribution and peer-to-peer file sharing.
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the music industry sued and won 100+ million, that 72 trillion was for the hypothetical max fine per file shared
"Still not paying". They aren't due anything. LimeWire is dead in 2010. The OG LimeWire. What goes around wearing LimeWire's skin nowadays in LimeWire by name only. Brought back to life in 2022 as crypto-NFT scam, they saw it didn't stick. Tried AI, no dice. Went back to file hos
Those poor starving musicians
To me the funniest part about this is not that they are still not paying Nah, it is the part that the industry at large is still treating Piracy like it should be shot down, while unbeknownst to them it is like a Hydra. The only exception being the Music Industry since the piracy
Music industry be like:
Just in case you missed the information: back in the day the music industry tried to sue Limewire for $75 trillion, but they're still not paying.
Sounds like the music industry could help do AI company valuations. 72 quintillion squillion dollars.
Thank god for the explanation. Because that same exact information definitely can't be extracted from the tweet itself.
Loved the gambling with limewire, sometimes you got a song, sometimes a virus and sometimes a porn, miss those times!