lawrence@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 10 months ago90'slemmy.worldimagemessage-square112linkfedilinkarrow-up1990arrow-down114file-text
arrow-up1976arrow-down1image90'slemmy.worldlawrence@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square112linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDorkyd68@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoYou laugh now but my family was sued by limewire for file sharing. My parents paid like 3500 bucks to settle. Which in 1999 times was pretty much a million bucks
minus-square14th_cylon@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·10 months ago$6,809.29 in Nov. 2025 equals $3,500 of buying power in 1999 (Average). https://www.calculator.net/inflation-calculator.html?cstartingamount1=3%2C500&cinmonth1=13&cinyear1=1999&coutmonth1=11&coutyear1=2025&calctype=1&x=Calculate#uscpi
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agonot accounting for COL and inflation, that’s about a million dollars.
You laugh now but my family was sued by limewire for file sharing. My parents paid like 3500 bucks to settle. Which in 1999 times was pretty much a million bucks
$6,809.29 in Nov. 2025 equals $3,500 of buying power in 1999 (Average).
https://www.calculator.net/inflation-calculator.html?cstartingamount1=3%2C500&cinmonth1=13&cinyear1=1999&coutmonth1=11&coutyear1=2025&calctype=1&x=Calculate#uscpi
not accounting for COL and inflation, that’s about a million dollars.
deleted by creator