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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.
They'll put it on their "Fines Pending" list.
CRIA me a river!
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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.
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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!