LimeWire Sued Again, Publishers Seek $150,000 Per Song

betterunixthanunix writes "Another lawsuit has been filed against LimeWire, this time by the National Music Publishers Association. They claim that LimeWire also damaged them, and seek $150,000 per infringement, putting the maximum possible damages in the hundreds of millions of dollars. LimeWire seems to have become the latest music industry punching bag. 'David Israelite, chief executive of the publishers' association, said his organization had decided to bring the complaint because most publishers were not represented in the record company lawsuit and they were now confident that they had a winning case. ... LimeWire, which says it is trying to start a new paid subscription model, said in a statement on Wednesday that it welcomed the publishers to the table. '"

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Re:$150K per song?

[Khyber]

"Want to fix this? Stop buying RIAA member's products."

Negative. The only way to fix this, given what you say about congress, is to start killing RIAA members, AND congress members.

That's the ONLY way this bullshit will EVER stop, is to show them with absolute certainty that we will no longer tolerate this shit.