Six studios — Twentieth Century Fox, Viacom, Comedy Partners, Disney, Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers — have filed suit, citing the court’s summary judgement in the RIAA case as basis for their claims. In that case, the court concluded that LimeWire “intentionally encouraged direct infringement”. Now, the court will have to decide LimeWire’s culpability in the illicit trade of movies and TV shows as well.
In addition, a group of independent record labels are arguing that, because of the same summary judgement, that they too are owed $US105 million. There’s no word yet on how much the MPAA is asking for in damages, but if its anything near what it enjoy threatening the common user with, LimeWire’s going to need to find some deeper pockets. [Hollywood Reporter via Techdirt]
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James
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 3:15 PMI wish everyone would just bugger off and let me steal whatever I want
Boneless117
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 4:05 PMI tend to agree…
Ozoneocean
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 4:08 PMTerms like “stealing” and “piracy” make no logical sense in this context, since no the item (recording) is not taken from an owner and that owner deprived of it, nor are items (recodings) hijack by a second party, depriving the owner of their use and instead sold by that second party for a profit- that’s what piracy actually is.
The actual offence is more akin to “bootlegging”; people making unauthorised copies. “Copies” being the operative word here.
It’s still not a good thing to do, but idiotic to conflate it with “stealing”.
Jazz
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 4:10 PMThese tactics do certainly seem consistent with the movie/music industry’s business model of “sue everyone you can”.
James
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 5:19 PMIf isohunt goes down, I’m killing myself…
monkeymind
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 6:10 PMnot to worry it would soon be replaced. Website whack-a-mole.