CRIA Faces $60 Billion Lawsuit 280
jvillain writes "The Canadian Recording Industry Association faces a lawsuit for 60 billion dollars over willful infringement. These numbers may sound outrageous, yet they are based on the same rules that led the recording industry to claim a single file sharer is liable for millions in damages. Since these exact same companies are currently in the middle of trying to force the Canadian government to bring in a DMCA for Canada, it will be interesting to see how they try to spin this."
We need to get rid of the industry middle men (Score:4, Funny)
So that the artists might be more directly ripped off by the filesharing.
my bet (Score:3, Funny)
is they'll never pay a fine. guess how?
Re:Whoever funds those companies... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:my bet (Score:5, Funny)
They'll put it on their "Fines Pending" list.
Re:Irony (Score:3, Funny)
Now please go f*ck yourself.
I think you mean "Take off, hoser!"
Raise your hand if ... (Score:3, Funny)
... you think big corporations, especially investor owned ones, are fundamentally honest.
Re:CRIA will never get nailed for this (Score:2, Funny)
Riiiight, the Conservatives are not corrupt, you keep on believing that, sucker.
Hey CRIA! (Score:5, Funny)
CRIA me a river!
Perfection (Score:4, Funny)
Sometimes life just balances out. Should this pan out, it would be a day to celebrate. Karma is a BITCH ;)
Re:Irony (Score:5, Funny)
If there is such a thing as a glee/giggle dance, I just did it.
Re:Irony (Score:2, Funny)
We are not part of any empire save our own.
Ah yes, the vast Canadian Empire. At one time covering up to 6.7% of the land area of the earth. It was a fearsome empire with the children trained from birth to hurl rocks across frozen lakes and ice fish.
Re:Irony (Score:3, Funny)
I suppose that technically the GG could refuse to give royal accent to the new law
Canadian Law would be much funnier if given in the royal accent.
Re:This isn't irony... (Score:5, Funny)
GP thinks irony is like rain on your wedding day.
Re:CRIA? same as RIAA: they're WESU ! (Score:5, Funny)
I had previously suggested that RIAA was just a disguise, a mask used by the Big4 companies behind RIAA, and suggested that we actually refer to them by name: Warner, EMI, Sony, and Universal. Together they form the acronym WESU, as in "We sue! Yes, we do!"
That's for the US, though. This is the Canadian affiliate, WESUC.
Re:Irony (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Irony (Score:2, Funny)
Sorry to break the bad news to you.
If you have the queen on your money you are British... Sorry to break the bad news to you.
The same way that if you have a pyramid on your money you are Egyptian?