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One Point Six Five Trillion Dollars

Posted on December 22, 2006
Filed Under Digital Music |

Or in long hand $1,650,000,000,000 dollars. I’m assuming that the RIAA band that are suing the Russian Based, Russian Licenced AllOfMP3 because (on my reading) they don’t like the fact they’re not giving them enough money… or something.

But get this. They’ve used the standard multiplier of $150,000 per infringing track on the site. Which means that the civil suit is for that $1.65 trillion dollar total - I’m also assuming they’re using the US definition of a trillion (1×10 to the 12) as opposed to the British 1×10 to the 18). Now that’s a lot of money. You want some persepctive…

The GDP of Canada in 2005 was a trifling 1.13 trillion dollars. Only seven county’s GDP is greater than the requested compensation from AllofMP3 (the USA, Japan, Germany, PR China, the UK, France and Italy). Russia itself is on 0.76 trillion dollars. Yes, AllofMP3 is twice as successful as the Motherland.

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One Response to “One Point Six Five Trillion Dollars”

  1. Chris Davies on December 23rd, 2006 18:35

    I suggest, for purposes of clarity, that we use the phrase “freedom billion” for the traditional 10^12 meaning of the word, to distinguish it from the French billion that the Americans have picked up (10^9)

    Hopefully, by associating the insane definition of billion (What exactly is it two of?) with the French, we can get the Americans to boycott it.

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