I sort of get the feeling that, they will never see that anytime soon.

That's ridiculous. They might as well go for the US deficit.

I literally started laughing out loud when I read the title of your thread.

Seriously, $72 trillion dollars??

It would be interesting to find out the total historical amount of revenue the music recording industry brought in before services like LimeWire were ever introduced. How many times does it need to be multiplied to even reach that figure?

This is one of the most ludicrous things I have ever read.

S&F

Isn't there a total money amount at about, As of March 2006, $10.3 trillion available in the world??? So yah, I agree with the judge that $72 Trillion is a bit much! lol

Good luck getting it back.

How ignorant can the riaa Be?

Silly and malicious, people should be outraged.

This couldn't be paid back in thousand years.

The music industry is insane.

The gatekeeper model is dead. More and more we are seeing initiatives that are cutting out these money bleeders from the equation.

Websites like Kickstarter.com, which is providing a source of crowd funded content, much like ATS is crowd sourced content, and are changing the way that developpers, artists, musicians and a whole host of other industries receive funding for their projects.

Times are a changing, and companies will no longer be able to gouge us for content, when that content is NOT worth what they are selling it as.

Take music for example, you can't tell me a new CD is worht 25$ in store when I can pick up a digital copy for 13.99 on Itunes. What's the difference between the two copies? It's not like the digital copy cannot be hardcopied via CD's etc.

So these people really need to understand that content delivery systems have changed, people can no longer afford the gate keeper model and these people are NOT entitled to this money.

~Tenth

I NEVER buy a whole cd anymore. I use places like emusic and only download the songs I can sample and know that I will end up liking. Then I buy my music one song at a time. When I buy a whole cd there are always several songs there I do not want to listen to.

72 trillion dollars eh? I will bet these guys live in LaLa land.

you can not patent a scent..

why can you patent a sound?

end this madness..

I bet you 70 trillion these

executives can not play one single note...

on any instrument..

I thought they settled this.

I know that Limewire's lawyers crushed the label owners plan of attack when they showed the exec salaries and the layoffs that, presumably, were made to ensure those exec salaries went up or remained the same.

Limewire is no longer operating.

What a joke they are. How do they ever expect to gain the support of people with such ridiculous requests.