“Mark Gorton and Lime Wire pocketed millions by enabling people to obtain songs online without paying for them,” wrote CNET's Greg Sandoval Tuesday. “Now, Gorton and his company could end up paying damages of over $1 billion.”
Sandoval's detailed piece was written in anticipation of the recording industry's high-stakes damages trial against Lime Wire that got underway earlier this week. Little would he have known back then that just a few hours later CNET would be sailing in the same boat as Lime Wire.
A bunch of rappers are suing CBS Interactive, CNET's parent company, for inducing copyright infringement by distributing the LimeWire P2P software. That's about as much as we are allowed to tell you before the jump. So hit the jump for more.