
Record companies are suing Limewire, the P2P sharing software company who had users download music illegally, for the amount of $75,000,000,000,000 only.
Seventy-five trillion US dollars. Ok, so let’s put Wolfram Alpha into work here. A single US dollar bill is about .0043 inches thick and if ten billion hundred dollar bills total to 43,000,000 inches tall when stacked, $75 trillion is what? 430 quadrillion inches equivalent to 8,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 audio CDs when stacked together (audio CDs are about .05 inches thick). And pushing the comparisons into the extremes, 75 trillion dollara in $100 dollar bills when stacked together takes 6,923,000,000,000,000 Justin Biebers made into a human totem-pole, which is not humanly possible (despite the Bieb’s mantra of ‘Never Say Never). Yes, we admit these comparisons has become really ridiculous, but the record companies’ 75-trillion-buck claim is mind-boggingly more ridiculous and as per what Manhattan Federal Judge Kimba Wood calls it: absurd. Read more