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January 5, 2011

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Despite the court battles in 2010 to shut down file-sharing service LimeWire, its owners are still making noise.

According to media reports, LimeWire is asking the The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to prove just how much money the record industry has lost to illegal file-sharing.

The labels are claiming over $1 billion in damages and will be able to argue exacly how much LimeWire pays out in front of a jury this April.

LimeWire's lawyers have been asking for documentation from third-party licensees covering their relationship with the labels, including contracts and royalty payments.

The attorneys are currently pushing for Amazon to turn over its documents on these matters, because LimeWire doesn't want the case to rely only on the labels' copies of such documents.

The attorneys are suggesting in further filings that documents on the labels' relationship with digital music vendors such as Amazon and possibly Apple "could illuminate Plaintiffs' views as to the true value of their works and how Plaintiffs acted towards Amazon and other online digital music providers."

It will be up to the courts to decide whether this argument is relevant to the case or not.