What is Digg?Sponsored by Travelzoo
Take Advantage of Ridiculously Low Holiday Airfares view!
travelzoo.com - Flights $52 and up for Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year. But move on it now.
456 Comments
- cubs2234, on 10/31/2007, -13/+1170This just makes me hate the RIAA 1.65 trillion times more.
- Toon, on 10/31/2007, -14/+787If I were AllofMp3.com, I'd write the RIAA one of those giant checks they give on telethons and make it out for "Not one ***** cent." And, in the memo, write, "Blow me, comrade." (Because I'd be, like, all Russian and *****)
Now, where do you get a giant check from? I'm going to start paying all my bills with those regardless. - Blazekun, on 10/31/2007, -13/+665One hundred BILLION Dollars! BWAHAH BWAHHAHAHA BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!
- wonderboy, on 10/31/2007, -8/+415No kidding. The United States could hardly pay this.
- HoosbinPharteen, on 10/31/2007, -22/+380This is like suing osama bin laden for trillions.....
- matthewaaron, on 10/31/2007, -2/+359What part of Russian company do they not understand?
- inactive, on 10/31/2007, -2/+295Now we know the RIAA is smoking crack.
- JimXugle, on 10/31/2007, -3/+235Damages: $1.65t
GDP of Russia: $1.576t
1.65 > 1.576
The RIAA wants to own Russia? - SuperSnake2012, on 10/31/2007, -2/+199This just proves the RIAA is run by a bunch of greedy scumbags.
- kzos, on 10/12/2007, -6/+200@Archeologist
In Soviet Russia, AllOfMP3.com sues RIAA! - alephsmith, on 10/12/2007, -1/+184In other news RIAA boss dies of polonium 210 poisoning.
- shitthisfook, on 10/12/2007, -2/+160Yes, because they obviously would have made 150k per song if it weren't for mean old AllofMp3.com.
/extreme sarcasm - BevansDesign, on 10/12/2007, -1/+132Hey, it's not AllOfMP3's fault that Russian copyright laws aren't as restrictive as in the US. They played the game with the rulebook they were given. They paid the ROMS as required.
- nickerbocker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+108If this even gets to a court room the judge is more than likely to look at the amount in question and laugh his or her ass off. After the judge has regained their composure, he or she will most likely tell the RIAA to get the ***** out of their courtroom and not come back until they can come up with real numbers.
- TangentThought, on 10/12/2007, -2/+99Since when did a song cost $150,000? Surely something like this cannot be justified.
- D4r7h3v1l, on 10/12/2007, -1/+92I like their logic. My friend once stole an M&M from me, so I sued him for $10k.
- aurrea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+75They should have sued them for a "bajillion zillion"... if I remember correctly from second grade, thats lots of money.
- mywhitenoise, on 10/12/2007, -15/+88Toon, you are a total badass.
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+72"Why then do musicians go bankrupt?"
Because they buy ***** they can't afford, as anyone else who goes bankrupt. - flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -3/+74you know that hardly any of that money is actually going to the artists. Pisses me off.
- drizek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+71you mean allofmp3 money or RIAA law suit money?
Cause neither one of them gives to the artitsts. - Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -1/+67Wow, how in the world did they come up with $150k PER SONG? Maybe this is also the method they use to calculate how much they've "lost profit to downloads"?
- Innagadadavida, on 10/12/2007, -0/+65There are no signatures on digg comments. You can't fool us!
- kcpwnsgman, on 10/12/2007, -29/+93IT'S ALL A CONSPIRACY LOL!
if the RIAA expects 1.65 trillion from Russia to the US, then that would cover all the debt that Bush created. - terrab0t, on 10/12/2007, -1/+61@toon
http://www.megaprint.com/bigchecks.html
On a side note, that picture of the lady with the big cheque is very funny to me. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+65I'm surprised there's no Russia jokes yet. Maybe Digg HAS improved.
- billyoneal, on 10/12/2007, -16/+72climbon321, please do your research: We'd have to leave Iraq 4 times to pay that!
Source: http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182 - EGOvoruhk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+50If it makes you feel any better, with a sum like that, they'll get all kinds of free advertising
- appetite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+46and if they win, all the proceeds will go to riaa's lawyers to pay their lawyers to pay their lawyers' lawyers to pay off their old lawyer debts. meanwhile, the best musicians in the world struggle to pay for new guitar picks.
- Jolene, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46@drizek
The difference between the two is that AllofMP3.com states that they don't pay royalties, while the RIAA claims they are doing this "for the artists".
But I get your point. - cinnix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45Who the ***** thought this figure up? Dr. Evil?
- Tenlow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+44I'd like to know how they got that figure. One song is not worth $150,000. If it were, the RIAA wouldnt even exist because nobody could afford CDs. If they feel they need to be paid royalties, and sued for that, it wouldnt be so unrealistic.
But in this case I find it hard to imagine them not getting laughed out of court. "your honor, we'd like to sue someone outside of your jurisdiction in another country for 1.7 trillion dollars because we decided the laws we made up count over there too" - flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43yeah you attach that ***** to every single one of your posts. Go kill yourself you ***** spammer.
- appetite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41except allofmp3 actually distributes lots of diverse music while riaa pushes two ***** artists of the month for 10x the price. if allofmp3 is bad for artists, then riaa is ebola virus.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+40Why hasn't anyone sued the RIAA for stupidity beyond measurement.
- bigdt87, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39Note to Al-Qaeda: If you plan on attacking America again, please take out your anger on the RIAA headquarters.
- deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37Russia's economy is in bad enough shape without this lawsuit. I think I have stumbled onto the RIAA's new business model.
1) Start World War 3 with Russia by attempting to bankrupt the country.
2) Sit back and let WW3 kill off 99% of humanity.
3) Wait until a new species rises up.
4) Sell them DRM music at inflated prices
5) PROFIT - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34Spamming digg?
Oh, no, that's just what YOU are doing. - akira117, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34Wow good thing "someone" used a 3rd party to pay their balance.
Also the RIAA will never win this in a Russian court - Q777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34The GDP of all of Russia is only 1.4 Trillion.
- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3311 million songs times the basic legal price in the U.S. of $1.00 per song = $11 million USD.
Damn, and we thought Verizon was bad at doing math. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35It must have been a blue m&m
- drizek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31Ya, i heard the polonium is only worth about 10 million dollars.
- SniperX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30If they honestly think one website caused them THIS much in damages...
Then logically, why wouldn't they support this sort of business model in the United States? It would make sense if they believe they are losing over a TRILLION dollars to instead, push the record labels into signing agreements with locally ran sites and make that trillion back ;)
They really don't have any idea what they're doing, do they? - blarn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30seriously, if anything it should be $0.99 per song.
- rodrigomuniz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+33"poor" RIAA
- D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30I wouldn't put it past the RIAA to pull something like this...
Sometimes I wish I were famous so then I could tell people to download my music off of the internet and the RIAA couldn't do a thing about it...other times I just wish I was famous - aamer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30This is the dumbest thing I've seen. They may as well have just made up a fake number ... "we will sue you for 1 kajillion dollars!"
- maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25thats all?
honestly, did we expect any less from them?
***** psychotic - ir6c, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25Maybe this ridiculous amount will finally cause a more mainstream backlash against the riaa
-
Show 51 - 100 of 456 discussions
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is