LOL!
The RIAA is off its rocker.
Check this little gem out.
The summary if you’re to lazy to click the link is that the RIAA (music industry) is suing a music download site in Russia who sells music for a few cents each song. About $4 per CD give or take. They’re suing them for… 1.65 TRILLION dollars. Last I checked the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) for the ENTIRE country was about 750 BILLION dollars. Now this is where it even gets better… this only includes the songs from June to October 2006. They’re charging $150,000 per song. If they had applied those numbers since the inception of AllofMp3.com which according to a quick whois lookup of the site name, is June of 2000… and we’ll say they sold 8m overall each month average, because at the beginning it would have sold slower and now it’s much faster… is roughly 78 months times 8 million downloads or 624 million total downloads… at a cost of $150,000 per song they’d owe the RIAA 93,600,000,000,000 dollars… yes 93 TRILLION, 600 BILLION… because they sold songs cheaper than apple… who sells each song for $0.99. Just for comparison… the national debt of the united states is currently capped at 9 Trillion. The gross domestic product of the ENTIRE WORLD combined is about 45 Trillion…
God, someone who does damages and math for this kinda shit needs flat out shot. This is STUPID, punitive is one thing and understandable as a discouragement… this is mental. Any judge who gets this case should toss it out for being to stupid to contemplate until they can come back with a reasonable number of some sort.
Anyways, enjoy figured everyone needed some light hearted stupidity for the holiday season! Oh and AllofMp3.com is presently is giving a 20% holiday increase for any money you transfer in for downloads. Merry Christmas!