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LimeWire Shut Down Permanently By Federal Court
- Updated On 27/10/2010
- Author : Pradeep Kumar
- Topic : Technology
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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”.
By Pradeep Kumar
CEO and Founder of Slashsquare, Indian Blog Network and Web Consulting Media. HBB is a part of Slashsquare Network. I'm a Tech Blogger, Striving Entrepreneur, Atheist, and Proud Indian. Catch me on Facebook and Twitter.
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ashwin
dont worry guys. there is always other way.. use software called FlashGet. i wonder when torrents will be banned?
Jasmine
Now, where can I get an alternative? FrostWire?
Mani Viswanathan
Bad news..:( Limewire was among the Top 10 most used P2P softwares. I don’t think the court should intervene in Web affairs.
Anish K.S
Sad News 🙁
Crunchynow
thats really a sad news….
i am sorry for that…..
www.thepankajgupta.com
This is not a good news for all Limewire users.. sad news.
vicky89
this is very bad news…..
Mark Stevens
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.
Harriet
This is such good news, music stealing through programmes like these is illegal and should be shut down permenantly!
Vinayak Nagri
Thanks for the info, never knew about this case
icechen1
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!
Rohit | Ipod Touch 4G
thanks for sharing….dats bad news for limewire users…but this decision will help Music Industries to curb down copyright and piracy infringement…