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CRIA Faces $60 Billion Lawsuit
jvillain writes "The Canadian Recording Industry Association faces a lawsuit for 60 billion dollars over willful infringement. These numbers may sound outrageous, yet they are based on the same rules that led the recording industry to claim a single file sharer is liable for millions in damages. Since these exact same companies are currently in the middle of trying to force the Canadian government to bring in a DMCA for Canada, it will be interesting to see how they try to spin this."
So that the artists might be more directly ripped off by the filesharing.
is they'll never pay a fine. guess how?
Nah, they wouldn't be concerned until it said something outrageous, like $60,000,000,000.
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
Now please go f*ck yourself.
I think you mean "Take off, hoser!"
... you think big corporations, especially investor owned ones, are fundamentally honest.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
Riiiight, the Conservatives are not corrupt, you keep on believing that, sucker.
CRIA me a river!
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Sometimes life just balances out. Should this pan out, it would be a day to celebrate. Karma is a BITCH ;)
Good god, I think I opened my Christmas presents early by reading this article...
If there is such a thing as a glee/giggle dance, I just did it.
Moved to http://soylentnews.org/. You are invited to join us too!
We are not part of any empire save our own.
Ah yes, the vast Canadian Empire. At one time covering up to 6.7% of the land area of the earth. It was a fearsome empire with the children trained from birth to hurl rocks across frozen lakes and ice fish.
You're thinking small. Why miniaturize the laser, when we could instead enlarge the sharks? -John Searle
I suppose that technically the GG could refuse to give royal accent to the new law
Canadian Law would be much funnier if given in the royal accent.
GP thinks irony is like rain on your wedding day.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
I had previously suggested that RIAA was just a disguise, a mask used by the Big4 companies behind RIAA, and suggested that we actually refer to them by name: Warner, EMI, Sony, and Universal. Together they form the acronym WESU, as in "We sue! Yes, we do!"
That's for the US, though. This is the Canadian affiliate, WESUC.
Attack its weak point for massive damage!
Rick Mercer (Canada's version of Jon Stewart) did a great explanation of this very system and how it works, using that event as an example. Funny too.
Murphey's fighting Occam, and we're in the stands.
Sorry to break the bad news to you.
If you have the queen on your money you are British... Sorry to break the bad news to you.
The same way that if you have a pyramid on your money you are Egyptian?