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RIAA Seeks Estimated $97.8 Billion From MTU Student

Posted by michael on from the can-you-take-a-check dept.

theodp writes "The Detroit Free Press does the math on the damages sought by the RIAA from the Michigan Technological University student. The total? About $97.8 trillion--yes, trillion with a T--or enough money to buy every CD sold in America last year over again for the next 120,000 years, according to RIAA statistics." Update: 04/05 21:58 GMT by M : The Free Press can do the math, but not very well: the numbers provided show the RIAA is seeking some $97 billion dollars, not trillion. I'm sure the student is *much* happier. Headline updated.

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  1. 97 Trillion? by MeanMF · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well that explains the lawyers with frickin' lasers mounted on their frickin' heads...

  2. Wow... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That could buy a really large Beowulf Cluster.

  3. In other news... by Penguuu · · Score: 5, Funny

    "RIAA starts funding US military actions in countries with highest piracy rates"... you can buy many missiles with $97.8 trillion.

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  4. Flight Risk by spoonist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, I'm thinkin' that if I were staring down the barrel of $97.8 TRILLION dollar lawsuit, I'd be tempted to find a country without extradition treaties. Preferably a friendly, inexpensive country with a tropical climate and lots of nude beaches.

    What's the statute of limitations for copyright violations?

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  5. Re:They did the math? by MeanMF · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think they're off by, ... ohh, about a factor of a thousand?

    I'm sure the students are breathing a sigh of relief that it's only $97.8 billion...

  6. Further than Pluto by Michael.Forman · · Score: 5, Funny


    The size of a dollar bill is 6.6294 cm wide, by 15.5956 cm long, and 0.010922 cm in thickness.

    A stack of one dollar bills worth $97.8 trillion would be 10 billion meters high or slightly more than 25 stacks of bills that each would reach to the moon.

    Laid end-to-end the bills would stretch 15.25 trillion meters. That's long enough to stretch from the sun to pluto almost three times over.

    That many dollar bills would cover the entire 68 square miles of the District of Columbia in a pile of bills two feet deep.

    Oh, wait. Now I get it.

    Michael.

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  7. That's Trillion ... by recursiv · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's Trillion with a "B"

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