Record Industry Price-fixing Scandal
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The day the music industry sued someone for $72 trillion - National | Globalnews.ca
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In 1999 , the recorded music industry was swimming, drowning in money.
Napster, Audio-Galaxy , Kazaa , BearShare , Grokster and dozens more file-sharing programs popped up.
As the ’00s continued, CD sales were in freefall, costing the industry and artists untold billions .
RIAA had been successful in shutting down Napster .
LimeWire was able to reduce the penalty to a mere US$105 million .
The RIAA says it never specifically asked for US$72 trillion , but the figure did come up as part of the case.
The company is gone, but its software lives on.
LimeWire is now a platform for people into non-fungible tokens.
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