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The RIAA has demanded the court to freeze LimeWire and its creator's assets because it says it may seek damages in the region of "hundreds of millions of dollars, or even billions".
The court is already in agreement with the RIAA, finding LimeWire guilty of copyright infringement. Now the RIAA wants to take things a step further and annihilate LimeWire entirely by asking for huge amount of damages, perhaps as a way to warn others of the consequences of offering a music sharing service.
The RIAA is not claiming actual damages, which is difficult it not impossible to prove on cases such as this one, but instead, it is asking for statutory damages, which could be up to $150,000 per offence. And with so many users and so many songs being shared on LimeWire, the RIAA's calculations say that the damages could be in the range of billions.
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The court is already in agreement with the RIAA, finding LimeWire guilty of copyright infringement. Now the RIAA wants to take things a step further and annihilate LimeWire entirely by asking for huge amount of damages, perhaps as a way to warn others of the consequences of offering a music sharing service.
The RIAA is not claiming actual damages, which is difficult it not impossible to prove on cases such as this one, but instead, it is asking for statutory damages, which could be up to $150,000 per offence. And with so many users and so many songs being shared on LimeWire, the RIAA's calculations say that the damages could be in the range of billions.
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