The music industry thinks LimeWire should pay $75 trillion in damages for their copyright infringement claim. The judge in the case, Judge Kimba Wood, has called this request “absurd”. The current US GDP is about 14 trillion, less than 1/5th the damages requested. In fact, the GDP of the entire world is somewhere between $59 and $62 trillion in US dollars. So the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is, to quote Judge Wood, “suggesting an award that is more [ Read More ]
Archive for March, 2011
Glad you could drop by. My name is Stan Cording and I’m a composer and pianist. I’ve had this site for some time, but my web server crashed recently. And though I had a backup, I discovered I had a few issues there as well. Ouch! In an effort to make lemonade out of lemons, I’m taking this opportunity to restructure the site. Check back as I continue to restore the site. And there are some new features coming, too!


