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Looks Like the End of the Line For LimeWire
tekgoblin writes with news that a federal judge has issued a permanent injunction against LimeWire for copyright infringement and unfair competition. A notice on the LimeWire home page says "THIS IS AN OFFICIAL NOTICE THAT LIMEWIRE IS UNDER A COURT-ORDERED INJUNCTION TO STOP DISTRIBUTING AND SUPPORTING ITS FILE-SHARING SOFTWARE. DOWNLOADING OR SHARING COPYRIGHTED CONTENT WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION IS ILLEGAL." An anonymous reader points to coverage at CNET, too.
.. but where am I going to get my Anna Kournikova XXX Screensavers?!
If only there were some way for people who had Limewire to share the executable.
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
"a hotbed of virus and trojans"
This sentence could be referring to the stuff you could download, or whatever came with the installation program itself. What a mess.
Piracy is solved forever.
Real men still use Napster.
Can someone tell the judge to not use so many caps? It's like YELLING!
It better not be shut down! I mean with limewire gone, what am I going to populate the new android port of winamp with! My nostalgia must be properly formatted!
Everything will be taken away from you.
IP Address? That's one of them "Internet" things isn't it?
Let me just insert this AOL cd into my drive and receive my X free hours and get online today.
I thought you guys were talking about a frat party.
With AOL, you can get the internet in your living room!
So I hope you have a really, really big living room.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
$500 million per month works out to be 6.5 billion per year.
I'm amazed that we actually have record companies around with giant losses like these. Won't someone think of the children?
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The media companies have stood up against rampant piracy to protect artistic expression and innovation! This is truly a victory for The American People.
"Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad." [Ecclesiastes 7:3]
It's the end of the lime for them alright, and it's sad to see such a historic piece of software going out on a such a sour note.
I'm sure -- upon hearing these huge damages record labels have had -- the judge will promptly fine everyone involved infinity billion dollars.
"Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad." [Ecclesiastes 7:3]
It's also still available from limewire.com
I'll leave it up to you to figure out how to get it. :)
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
My favorite was the "name_of_popular_song_crack.exe". I guess they thought if they cracked the song they wouldn't get a please insert the original cd prompt when playing their mp3?
name_of_popular_song.mp3.exe
I can't seem to download your link? I keep clicking but nothing happens.
Don't get your panties in a knot, the virus he doesn't have disabled his spell-checker so he didn't know.
Yeah keep the Gnutella network running!
It diverts attention away from the kademlia network.
It in fact HAS to be about distribution.
Imagine the scenario where they try to jack you up for downloading crappy_commercial_music.mp3.
Defense: "How do you know I downloaded it?"
Plaintiff: "Its in our logs"
Defense: "How do you have logs of this event?"
Plaintiff: "We were offering crappy_commercial_music.mp3 for download"
Judge: "Case dismissed"
"His name was James Damore."