Record labels sue LimeWire for... wait for it... $75 TRILLION.

[GommeInc]

Pirates aren't poor that's the thing.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...l-1812776.html

This quite obviously disproves that. The music industry doesn't understand that people have different reasons to pirate. My friend for example pirates everything but buys it if he likes it. He would not have bought the product if he didn't obtain it illegally. They need to rethink their strategy and lower prices. This counts for ALL the big "media" industries. Films, games etc. They are way to overpriced.

Indeed, it's very odd Interestingly, you get a "try before you buy" feature from quite a few places, like Android, iOS, PS3 store etc. so if you do like it you can buy it, but for some reason it's not quite taken off with the music industry and a few gaming companies. Streaming seems to be popular at the moment too, and many people who like a song on YouTube may buy it if they like it - the iTunes, Amazon, Windows Media Market Place(?) all have demo areas, but they're only 5-20 second clips which don't really make a song buyable and I don't believe the film inudstry had got a decent streaming world yet, £4.99 to "rent a film" is quite a lot

that doesn't mean that they're richer than non-pirates, it just means they spend a bigger proportion of their income on music, films, games and other media.

Money is still going around in that area, which is the point

[Maatt.]

FAIL.
They should never have allowed illegal music, they knew it was coming....
It wont be payed tho.

in all that, the owner could commit suicide.... just a thought.,

[xxMATTGxx]

FAIL.
They should never have allowed illegal music, they knew it was coming....
It wont be payed tho.

in all that, the owner could commit suicide.... just a thought.,

Are you being serious? Do you even know what limewire actually was. A lot of people download illegally across the world, it's not a fail at all. The only fail is that the music industry expect them to pay that much.

[Shockwave.2CC]

lol $75 trillion

[Eoin247]

I lol'd

I don't get how companies can sue over this ****. A downloaded copy does not mean a lost sale.

Try telling them that. It pisses me off to no end seeing the movie and music industry carrying on about "losses of revenue" due to "losses of sales" when infact the person would not of bought the track anyway. And whilst they carry on about losses, the movie and music industry is getting increasingly bigger and so do their profits. You'd be a mug to believe people are losing their jobs over this kind of thing, it's false advertising to say the least.

Hold on now. I'm pretty sure that this is not true for the mostpart. Are you telling me that before the internet this many people simply didn't own and listen to music? I remember that before any of my friends knew about limewire, they all used to buy off itunes. As soon as word got around in my year about limewire, nobody bought off itunes. I know for a fact that if i couldn't get music free, i would pay for it. As would many many others.

[Conservative,]

Hold on now. I'm pretty sure that this is not true for the mostpart. Are you telling me that before the internet this many people simply didn't own and listen to music? I remember that before any of my friends knew about limewire, they all used to buy off itunes. As soon as word got around in my year about limewire, nobody bought off itunes. I know for a fact that if i couldn't get music free, i would pay for it. As would many many others.

I think his point is a lot of music is only downloaded because they can. And I agree. I certainly wouldn't have as much music as I do if I had to buy it all.

[Eoin247]

I think his point is a lot of music is only downloaded because they can. And I agree. I certainly wouldn't have as much music as I do if I had to buy it all.

It's true that some people do that. But he said for example " It pisses me off to no end seeing the movie and music industry carrying on about "losses of revenue" due to "losses of sales" when infact the person would not of bought the track anyway. ". Most people who download free illegal music would buy it if they couldn't get it free.

I mean if you like listening to music and you can't get it any other way then you will buy it. This argument of "downloading it just because you can" doesn't go down very well with me. You either like and want to listen to music or you don't.

[Chippiewill]

Who on earth needs to pirate music anymore, just get Spotify and you're sorted.

The only reason why I pirate is so I can watch a TV programme when I want too without spending ages waiting for it to come out in the UK or spending ages on fiddly PVR settings. I'm fine with watching adverts, just not fine with waiting around for it. Companies need to change their tact, most piracy that isn't music piracy is only because it's more convenient than whatever solution they provide already. That, and am I seriously ever going to actually buy adobe's expensive software without a job? No, they're benefiting because when I can actually afford it I might buy it because I have the skills to use the software.

[Niall!]

Except pirating actually helps the smaller bands. If you see a CD in the shop of a band you've never heard, are you going to buy it? No. If you see it on a torrent site are you going to download it? Yes.

If you like them you tell your friends and chances are one or two of them will buy the CD. Plus you can go to gigs which is were the bands make their money. Seriously, **** paying publishers. I want my money to go to the people that created the music, not the corporations that made the CD.

[Ardemax]

i think whoever filed that add a few too many hundred 0's...