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LimeWire Shut Down October 26 2010: Court Case Over
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by Amy Judd | October 27, 2010 at 07:19 am
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The Popular Music Sharing and Download Site LimeWire Has Been Ordered to Shut Down
LimeWire is no more after Judge Kimba M Wood ruled on Tuesday that the site's main filesharing functions must be disabled.
This has been a long fight for the owners of LimeWire, who have battled against record companies over copyright infringement charges, but on Tuesday the judge ruled against the popular music sharing site.
On the LimeWire homepage, a notice now reads "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."
The Recording Industry Association Of America responded by releasing a statement saying: "For the better part of the last decade, LimeWire and [company founder Mark] Gorton have violated the law. The court has now signed an injunction that will start to unwind the massive piracy machine that LimeWire and Gorton used to enrich themselves immensely."
According to NME the company are planning to meet with record labels to try and reinstate a legitimised version of the popular site.
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at 10:58 on October 28th, 2010
In Re: LimeWire:
If you ask me, I think the RIAA needs to be shut down. They are bullies that won't stop at anything to get what they want.
at 05:19 on November 2nd, 2010
Limewire is cool.
at 09:25 on November 3rd, 2010
I'm going to miss LimeWire
at 11:04 on November 3rd, 2010
Fuck you kitty! Thats my free music! . . . I've paid thousands upon thousands of dollars to whomever and whoever profited/profits from record, cassette, and compacts discs sales. . . 90% of the music i currently download using P2P software like Limewire is merely to replace what I have lost, either physically, or those bull shit piece of crap Cd's that don't last for shit. . . Its Naptser all over again. . . . I don't care that Mark Gorton made a fortune off my and many others $14.95. He saved me a fortune in replacing what I already paid for. Where the fuck is the crime in that? Corporate America can go suck a proverbial dick!!!!
at 16:05 on November 4th, 2010
WORD! Fuck the judge. He probably couldn't even use limewire if he tried. How much does he make per year????? he can afford to pay someone to find someone to buy him his music.... what about the restof the real world? the world that they couldn't survive without? I've been a club dj for more than 25 years. NOT A BEDROOM/iTUNES/PLAY SOME MUSIC LIKE A JUKE BOX DJ. I've spent thousands on vinyl and now they use our music to sell mops and diapers and shit we don't need to have repeating in our heads all day long especially when we don't need that crap anyway. AND THEY ARE DEGRADING THE VALUE OF MY MUSIC COLLECTION ON A DAILY BASIS. Most of these artist's songs would have never been heard of if it wern't for people like me, playing it first and introducing it to the masses. This is idiocracy at it's worst and we should not stand for it. Don't vote! change the channel when a song you love comes on to sell food! don't buy things "they" tell you you need. LOVE LIFE, LIVE LONG! PLAY IT LOUD!
at 11:08 on November 3rd, 2010
Google FrostWire. It's free and is exactly the same as LimeWire Pro..!
at 22:21 on November 3rd, 2010
what the bloody hell is this crap this is terrible why now why danm it! isnt more important things on web to be shuting down that judge is vile to me VILE!
at 22:34 on November 3rd, 2010
They cant get rid of free p2p file sharing downloads, there a millions of sites that are the exact same as limewire, artist should be happy that there music is getting out there and recognized, who the fuck buys music anymore?? im not gonna waste money on supporting the artist drug habits and bills, so have fun shutting down limewire but there still not gonna make money haha
at 09:15 on November 4th, 2010
ALL IS TRUE DONT FEED INTO THE BS
at 13:32 on November 6th, 2010
Its time for all of us to move on to Frostwire
at 08:05 on November 7th, 2010
RIP Limewire
at 01:46 on November 8th, 2010
Limewire was the best !! R.I.P Limewire :'(Frostwire sucks nothing is as good as Limewire !!:'( :'( :'( :'(
at 09:01 on November 8th, 2010
This court order is absolutely ridiculous, Corporations need to realize that this is the generation of the internet, that peer to peer sharing is the future of the music industry. This is just money grubbing label companies trying to suck every last penny out of a dying industry of intellectual copyright bull shit. This just goes to show how cooperation's try to limit creativity and our rights as consumers. People should be the ones who decide what a song or album is worth not monopilistic record labels who are the only ones benefiting from hard working artists. You need to put the power back in the peoples hands you greedy fucking bastards.
at 15:00 on November 9th, 2010
This is total crap. Am I supposed to feel bad that by my using of limewire kid cudi can only afford one new private jet instead of two? If its free to listen to on the radio then why can't I listen to it on my ipod?! I'm a college student, where am I going to get $.99 for every single song I want to download?! I'd be paying over $2000 if that were the case! Also frostwire and mp3 rocket don't hold a finger to limewire so thats shot to hell. However I did use ares before limewire so maybe that'll yield some better results. RIP limewire... you will be missed.
at 19:30 on November 9th, 2010
LimeWire is only being temporarily mauled and immolated by America's judicial system and selfish records companies. It will surely resurrect on the third day.
at 20:44 on November 12th, 2010
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo....free LimeEzyy...
at 06:09 on November 22nd, 2010
Go to hell u RIAA u think by stoping limewire u have achieved great victory ur mind sucks u idiot sooooooooooooon wirewire will be out of this case and you inside the cell
at 08:49 on November 22nd, 2010
FOR ANYONE WHO USED LIMEWIRE:Just download Frostwire, it's literally the exact same thing. Frostwire.com
at 12:11 on November 22nd, 2010
this is bull, i mean do you think they are really loosing that much money???? if they stop paying shity artists loads of cash they can save sum lol
at 10:01 on November 23rd, 2010
There are very few songs I have downloaded that I don't have on some form of paid format. Because I can download songs, I've actually bought CD's I probably wouldn't have otherwise bought as it gives an opportunity to check out some of the songs you don't hear on the radio. Nothing worse than paying $20.00 for a CD that has 15 songs on it and 13 of them suck! If the recording industry would put out better albums, this wouldn't be an issue. And as for the artist not making money, pahleeeaase! Hard for me to believe no money is being made when it costs me $200.00 or more for me, my wife and son to go see a concert...before any food or drinks are even purchased. One good thing will come from this. Me personally, I will start paying a LOT more attention than I already do to local music.They're not as concerned about the money, they just want to get their music out to the people, by any means necessary.
at 21:48 on November 24th, 2010
pfff thats bullshit, what else do we have to pay for now music, fck thers alwasy bearshare and frostwire hahaha ;) suk on that judge mooka flooka u bitch
at 10:08 on December 1st, 2010
OMFG I CANT BELIVE IT. LIMEWIRE WAS FANTASTIC I HATE THAT JUDGE SHEE IS A PRAT
at 09:09 on December 5th, 2010
What about the people who paid for Limewire Pro???? Do you we get our money back??? I just got a new computer and had to re-pay to get it loaded on my new computer because Limewire mysteriously could not find my file. This is the second time I've had to do this when my old computer crashed I had to do the same. So does the company just cease to exist without refunding to those of us who paid????
at 05:42 on December 11th, 2010
I don't quite understand. What's so wrong with people sharing songs?? It's not that Limewire is making any profit from reselling those songs. Can't they just leave us alone?
at 12:33 on December 16th, 2010
All of the music I downloaded to the mp3 is music I already owned on vinyl,cassette,8 track or CD, but only the CD could be played in my car, so I downloaded the songs I wanted to have in my car to connect my ipod to the radio system. Now I will have to buy a digital turntable to transfer all my vinyls to mp3 mode, but that still won't make a difference to the music companies, because I paid $5-$15 each for the vinyls back in the day, and see no reason to double spend in this economy to take the music I already paid for with me in my car.
at 00:06 on December 19th, 2010
Old school pirates would have attacked. You have the judges name, god damn. You skill-less little dumb asses.. i guess thats because limewire was gay anyways...hence the little fagg0ts that can do nothing but download.
at 22:22 on December 22nd, 2010
Utorrent is doing the same.... you can download free music from there... why didn't they close Utorrent too?? that's fking unfair. paying $.99 for 1 song is too much when u get over 100 songs
at 04:23 on December 25th, 2010
I'm pretty sure that when we buy music, we are actually buying a type of "end-user license" to enjoy that music specifically for our own non-commercial pleasure. That is why, technically, we can't just buy a CD (or now, MP3) and broadcast it for profit: they've sold us a license, regardless of the format, and re-playing it for profit is not allowed under that license, even though we "own" the CD or MP3. So, having bought a license and thus retaining all the rights applicable to that license, there is no reason that I cannot replace my copy of the media if my format for the material under license became corrupted, e.g.: if my CD got scratched or I lost my MP3, I should be able to download another copy of the file from somewhere - whether that is from the production house itself or another source is immaterial. It is incredibly unappealing that these companies are pursuing the sites which allow us to re-acquire our own music! Let us re-acquire it from you, then, record companies! No one is concerned with privacy anymore (we all have facebook pages, right?), and so, please, do collect my info, so that when I get a new computer or MP3 player, I can transfer my music to it or re-acquire it through you...and as for my CDs...god forbid I scratch one! And the digital-rights-management thing has only made the matter even worse, and even furthered the need for companies such as limewire: If I purchase a license for a song, I need to be able to listen to that song. But, with DRM, I cannot even adequately upload a CD-bought song to MP3 for myself. Complete BS. Sure, it passes legally, as I have a license to enjoy that CD at my leisure, but if I want to convert it to and listen to it on MP3, I'm out of luck: so, this is entirely useless to the contemporary user/consumer. Record companies would be wise to simply change with the times, providing content in synchrony with today's culture, i.e.: digital with fast technological/device turnover within each individual purchaser. No, we're not necessarily sharing it with the world; we really do go through about one device per year, and need to be able to move our files from one to the next! Even though I re-acquired a few things via LimeWire, most of the stuff I downloaded were live versions. I loved this! And, at least a couple times, I caught some live versions of songs which had not yet been released, and getting hooked on these live pre-release versions actually led me to buy the release, which I had not previously planned on buying. I'm sure many others have had the same experience. Again: stupid record companies!