The popular peer-to-peer file sharing website LimeWire was shut down by the Federal Court recently.
LimeWire is a free peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) client for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and other operating systems supported by the Java software platform. At last the four-year legal battle with the US music industry came to an end, but LimeWire is unlucky this time.
The Federal Court found LimeWire guilty of assisting users in committing copyright infringement. It was a case made by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) four years before. The plaintiffs claimed that over 93% of the software’s traffic was made up of infringing content. The RIAA also said LimeWire has cost the music industry hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
They restricted LimeWire from allowing the searching and sharing of copyrighted material. But a LimeWire spokeswoman said the website will continue working with the music industry”.
dont worry guys. there is always other way.. use software called FlashGet. i wonder when torrents will be banned?
Now, where can I get an alternative? FrostWire?
Bad news..:( Limewire was among the Top 10 most used P2P softwares. I don’t think the court should intervene in Web affairs.
Sad News 🙁
thats really a sad news….
i am sorry for that…..
This is not a good news for all Limewire users.. sad news.
this is very bad news…..
I didn’t know LimeWire has cost the music industry hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue… I agree with Harriet, that all programmes like this should be shut down for good.
This is such good news, music stealing through programmes like these is illegal and should be shut down permenantly!
Thanks for the info, never knew about this case
Don’t worry, one program goes off, ten more will rise and take its place.
FrostWire(http://www.frostwire.com/) is doing a good job so far!
thanks for sharing….dats bad news for limewire users…but this decision will help Music Industries to curb down copyright and piracy infringement…