LimeWire Shut Down
source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1324487/LimeWire-shut-Victory-record-industry...
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Limewire, one of the world's biggest file-sharing websites, has been shut down by a US judge after a four-year legal battle.
In a huge victory for the record industry, New York District Judge Kimba Wood issued a permanent injunction, ordering the service to stop supplying its software and to block the sharing of unauthorised files.
The 17-page ruling requires LimeWire to 'disable the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality, and/or all functionality of the software.'
The decision puts an end to one of the world's biggest services for allowing consumers to share music, movies and TV shows for free over the internet.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which filed the copyright complaint against Lime Wire and its founder Mark Gorton in 2007, will now seek damages that could easily top $1billion.
RIAA lawyers told the judge that LimeWire cost the record labels about $500 million a month in lost revenue by helping users swop more than 3 billion songs a month.
They claimed Limewire's software had been downloaded from the pirates' site more than 200 million times, and 98.8 per cent of download requests were for unauthorised files.
They described Limewire's actions as "rampant" copyright infringement on a "massive scale".
LimeWire has said it has more than 50 million monthly users. These users accounted for 58 percent of people who said they downloaded music from a peer-to-peer service in 2009, a survey by NPD Group showed.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1324487/LimeWire-shut-Victory-rec...
In a huge victory for the record industry, New York District Judge Kimba Wood issued a permanent injunction, ordering the service to stop supplying its software and to block the sharing of unauthorised files.
The 17-page ruling requires LimeWire to 'disable the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality, and/or all functionality of the software.'
The decision puts an end to one of the world's biggest services for allowing consumers to share music, movies and TV shows for free over the internet.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which filed the copyright complaint against Lime Wire and its founder Mark Gorton in 2007, will now seek damages that could easily top $1billion.
RIAA lawyers told the judge that LimeWire cost the record labels about $500 million a month in lost revenue by helping users swop more than 3 billion songs a month.
They claimed Limewire's software had been downloaded from the pirates' site more than 200 million times, and 98.8 per cent of download requests were for unauthorised files.
They described Limewire's actions as "rampant" copyright infringement on a "massive scale".
LimeWire has said it has more than 50 million monthly users. These users accounted for 58 percent of people who said they downloaded music from a peer-to-peer service in 2009, a survey by NPD Group showed.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1324487/LimeWire-shut-Victory-rec...
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dudefromtherock
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Good bye Limewire ye will be sadly missed
- 1 year ago
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