DarthVain writes "13 record companies are trying to sue Limewire for $75 Trillion. The NYC judge in the case thinks it is 'absurd'. Its almost like these media companies are their worst enemy trying to make themselves look ridiculous. From the article: "The record companies, which had criterion damages ranging from $400 billion to $75 trillion, had argued that Section 504(c)(1) of the Copyright Act if and only if for damages for each instance of impingement where two or more parties were liable. For a popular site like Lime Wire, which had thousands of users and swarm of downloads, Wood held that the damage award would be amazing under this interpretation. 'If plaintiffs were able to pursue a statutory damage theory predicated on the number of direct infringers per work, defendants' damages could reach into the trillions,' she wrote. 'As defendants note, plaintiffs are suggesting an award that is more money than the entire music recording crowd has made since Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877.'"

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