KOBEsh and I preview the Western Conference Finals. I’m taking Spurs in 7…
By using augmented reality, kids can scan their bandaids and have their favorite Muppets come out and sing to them. It’s pretty amazing stuff.
In one of the craziest news stories of the year so far, the RIAA is completely off its rocker in its latest legal proceedings against Limewire.
“According to documents recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the RIAA was asking for damages of about $72 trillion dollars, a figure that the judge in the case said is “absurd.” Judge Kimba Wood wrote in a recent decision that, “An award based on the RIAA calculations would amount to ‘more money than the entire music industry has made since Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877.’”
The estimated wealth of the entire world is about $60 trillion, meaning that the RIAA should have known how outlandish its claims were to begin with. Still, with statuatory fines still coming of about $150,000 per infraction, of which there were 11,000, LimeWire could still end up owing about $1 billion.”
