LimeWire Sued Again, This Time by the NMPA
LimeWire Sued Again, This Time by the NMPA
Posted 06/17/2010 at 12:47am
| by Pulkit Chandna
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With a federal judge ruling against LimeWire in a copyright infringement suit last month, it is almost down for the count. It is on the verge of being shut down as a result of that decision. The fatal blow also means that it will most likely be deprived of the ironic sense of relief that comes with being knocked out from a bout dominated entirely by the opponent. But wait! It has another bout lined up on its way to the grave. A group of music publishers sued LimeWire on Wednesday.
The fresh copyright infringement lawsuit was filed by the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) in US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The NMPA is composed of eight music companies, including EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group and Warner/Chappell.
The NMPA wants to be compensated at a rate of $150,000 per infringed song. NMPA's chief executive David Israelite told the New York Times, “we’re looking for more than cessation of infringement, we’re looking for damages for all of the infringement done over the years.” According to court documents, the plaintiffs in the first suit fear that damages may run into "hundreds of millions of dollars, or even billions."
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Jox
June 18, 2010 at 5:00pm
“we’re looking for more than cessation of infringement, we’re looking
for damages for all of the infringement done over the years.”
This is the argument that makes the least sense to me. It assumes that someone who downloaded the song would have purchased the album were he not able to download it.
-Jox
zaternine
June 17, 2010 at 10:45pm
You know, over time since the 90's how music has changed, I hated buying a cd for only one song what a waste. then came napster. Talk about money well spent, because i was able to listen to the music before i could buy and spend my money on the artist who i thought deserved it (any one remember blockbuster music, where you could listen to a new cd before you bought it, that didnt last long obviously) fast forward to 2010 with a crappy economy, people are sure as hell gonna think twice about spending 15-20 on a cd, shoot a virgin mega store recently closed down by my house. I really wish the people behind groups such as the NMPA read our comments and wake up and get with the program. it becuase of idiots like them i will rather spend my money elsewhere and just buy individual songs or just rip it......idiots
aviaggio
June 17, 2010 at 8:22am
Cause it's so much easier to generate revenue thru copyright lawsuits than it is to actually make good music that people want to buy.
tri8gman
June 17, 2010 at 10:17am
I've seen this formatting crap happen often enough now in posts. I see it says IE4 there in the formatting text...
Does that mean you're using IE4, other "aged" browser, or what? What does it mean?!
Yusonice
June 17, 2010 at 5:57am
This is lame. The marginal cost of an additional song is 0 dollars. So to maximise society's welfare, music should be free! Good thing a simple google search can lead to websites hosting songs for free:) wonder why target lime wire and not those sites?
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