LimeWire Likely To Shut Down Soon

suraj.sun quotes from a CNET story: "A federal court judge has likely dealt a death blow to LimeWire, one of the most popular and oldest file-sharing systems, according to legal experts. On Wednesday ... US District Judge Kimba Wood granted summary judgment in favor of the ... [RIAA], which filed a copyright lawsuit against LimeWire in 2006. In her decision, Wood ruled Lime Group, parent of LimeWire software maker Lime Wire, and founder Mark Gorton committed copyright infringement, induced copyright infringement, and engaged in unfair competition. 'It is obviously a fairly fatal decision for them,' said [an industry defense lawyer]. 'If they don't shut down, the other side will likely make a request for an injunction and there's nothing left but to go on to calculating damages.'" The article notes that LimeWire is used by nearly 60% of the people who download songs.

Comments

Shitty!!!! (was Re:Excellent)

[RobertM1968]

The sooner we get these people off Limewire and onto Bittorrent, the sooner I can stop having to clean trojans off my friends PCs every few weeks.

This really sucks... there goes a chunk of the revenue stream in our tech shop... :-(

Those of you who are technologically savvy will probably mod this insightful... those who are not, will probably mod it humorous... those who simply dont like the truth of the post will probably mod it overrated or troll. ;-)

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[GameboyRMH]

Haiku anon rocks
Off his ass on drugs all day
He makes me laugh