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LimeWire Lives Again
Slayer Silver Wolf writes with this excerpt from TorrentFreak:
"'On October 26 the remaining LimeWire developers were forced to shut down the company's servers and modify remote settings in the filesharing client to try to harm the Gnutella network. They were then laid off. Shortly after, a horde of piratical monkeys climbed aboard the abandoned ship, mended its sails, polished its cannons, and released it free to the community.' And so, LimeWire Pirate Edition (LPE) was born. Based on the LimeWire 5.6 beta that was briefly released earlier this year and then withdrawn when Lime Wire LLC lost its lawsuit, LPE is now in the wild. In many ways, it is better than the version killed by the RIAA."
The problem basically stems from people having zero taste and diversity in music. When I was in my music sharing heyday, it was on Soulseek with a nice room full of friends who all enjoyed similar variations on harsh punk and noise music. Not a single one of the artists I found in my time there can be purchased on iTunes or found in even the dankest of dank music shops. Most recordings are live bootlegs captured off of vinyl from the 70s and 80s. I was never afraid of being sued because these bands were real, and never even had an indie label, let alone a big one.
The moral of the limewire/filesharing lawsuit stories? Get some taste.