Students sued for 98 Trillion dollars for sharing music.

Propyro · Post by **Propyro** » Tue Apr 08, 2003 6:52 pm

hey hungry crack pots back ... did you get unbanned or did you jsut make a new account? Meh either way, welcome back.

fyrtenheimer · Post by **fyrtenheimer** » Tue Apr 08, 2003 7:06 pm

he's had that account for a while

Propyro · Post by **Propyro** » Tue Apr 08, 2003 8:27 pm

fyrtenheimer wrote:he's had that account for a while

well i never knew about it ... i've only been here since the middle of march ... i've only noticed hungry crack pot on the forum for like a week before he got banned ...

RurouniKakita · Post by **RurouniKakita** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 9:01 pm

Well I should say something in this topic. Mainly for the reason that I currently attend Michigan Tech, I'm a CS major so this story got around fast, we CS majors spread info about other CS majors faster than the growth of file sharing. From what I've heard through the CS grape vine is that he scanned the campus LAN for free access to files and made the results of that scan publicly available. This is where the RIAA got the insane number of files. Also supposedly our campus Internet provider (Resnet) scans for people using too much bandwidth, and they do to because I got my connection block last year because I was refreshing to many game servers at once, anyway you think that they would notice the files sharing and shut it down but they didn’t. Also this kid is fairly well known in the CS department. He’s one of the top programmers at MTU. To read a story about him click here.

Anyway I think everyone is handling this badly and our president of the university didn’t help matter by sending out a copyrighted letter (for more info click here) saying breaking copyright laws is bad.

Well that’s all I have to say I try and post more info as it becomes available. In the mean time click here for MTU’s campus newspaper.

Heres the address for the stoy about the lawsuit. http://www.mtulode.com/viewarticle.php?ArticleID=2211

-=HungryCrackPot=- · Post by **-=HungryCrackPot=-** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 9:56 pm

Crotch dragon spits napalm on your cheek.

AtomicWeezleman · Post by **AtomicWeezleman** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 4:55 am

oh yeah, thats gotta burn

Timelessblurr · Post by **Timelessblurr** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 10:13 am

98.7 trill is more than the GDP of the Use makes in a year. Hell that a lot more than hte antion delt.

Wykith · Post by **Wykith** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 10:20 am

jonmartensen wrote:
Wykith wrote:It may sound stupid but it's the way shit goes. It's kind of like being charged with multiple life sentences back to back.

I guess the court doesn't want you thinking there's a maximum punishment. Oh no. They want you to know that you'll be in jail until you're dead....deader.... and deaderer.
On good behaviour, you can be out of jail in roughly 25 years, with a single life sentence

Life sentence does not equal the rest of your life in jail It's a set number of years.

Sarcasm?!

How very unlike you jon.
Thanx for the info though. I'll look this up.

SQ · Post by SQ » Thu Apr 10, 2003 12:01 pm

All I can say is, I hope Japan doesn't get psyched about This.

Because fi they do... Uh oh.

-cowers in a corner-

kearlywi · Post by **kearlywi** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 4:25 am

78 trillion dollars?! rofl! For comparisons sake Bill Gates has 30 billion dollars and the US bugdet is about 1.3 trillion (and that was b4 the tax cuts). The recording industry purposely selected the largest possible purpetrators and fined them the maximum amount for a reason, to get a number like 78 trillion dollars. Why did they do this? Everyone knows they have a low chance of winning their lawsuit and a snowballs-chance-in-hell of actually getting the 4 guys to actually pay that much money. The whole point of the law suit is to scare simple minded people into stopping filesharing. The truth is unless your one of the worst offenders and your a college student you'll never get noticed. The recording industry cant afford 50 million lawsuits.

As for the 78 trillion dollar lawsuit, I hope they win so they can buy the Entire Planet 5 times over and give every one on earth a check for 13,000 dollars! Holy crap thats a lot of money!

Actually they would probably create an evil empire with the money and conquer the world, forcing us to pay $20 for a 15 cent cd... o wait.