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Originally posted by Crakeur
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.
Originally posted by Crakeur
reply to post by Ookie
that raises a very good set of questions.
when I was a kid, and your favorite station started playing a new song, if you liked it, you would keep a cassette in the tape deck with the hopes that you'd catch the song and record it. (until, of course, the single was available at the local record store).
Wouldn't that mean that radio stations were the limewires of our youth?
and now, with the bulk of the file sharing services going away, people are stripping music from youtube videos so they can listen to them without paying for it.
Does that mean the record labels and the RIAA will go after youtube (google) next?
Originally posted by Swamper
It makes you think though, all that money that could've went in to the economy when we download our music, games and movies. To be fair, I would end up going without, but I wonder how much money would have been made if piracy didn't boom the way it did.