October 26, 2010

LimeWire shut down

Online file-sharing service LimeWire was shut down by a US federal court on Tuesday following a lawsuit filed by the music industry.

Pirate Bay is also shut down.

The move came a little more than five months after a US judge ruled in favour of 13 music companies in a copyright infringement and unfair competition case brought against LimeWire.

The 13 music companies filed their complaint against LimeWire in 2006 and Judge Wood ruled in their favour in May. In June, eight members of the National Music Publishers' Association filed a separate copyright suit against LimeWire. LimeWire software was released in August 2000 and uses peer-to-peer, or P2P, technology to allow users to share music or other files over the Internet.

LimeWire is owned by the Lime Group, a New York-based company.

13 comments:

  1. Fack.. i loved piratebay
    Nice post

    Following & Supporting

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  2. Kinda sucks that they are attacking software packages that have legal uses. :/

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  3. NOOOO PIRATE BAAAYYYY!!!

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  4. Use frostwire!!

    cool blog btw, come check out my music blog when you have a chance :)

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  5. P2P and torrents are good way to earn some virus, that's why I prefer google + title + file:pdf or mp3 or rar

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  6. first. Pirate bay is not down. Secondly, no US court could shut it down, as it is not owned by US citizens, nor hosted on US soil.

    ...And yeah. People still used limewire?

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  7. jesus child raping christ that took a long time though didnt it.
    way to keep up with the times internet police!

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  8. Don't use that anymore but still it sucks.

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