LimeWire file-sharing service shut down by US court

[DJM83]

Lime wire file-sharing service shut down by US court

Originally Posted by AFP

NEW YORK — Popular online file-sharing service LimeWire was shut down by a US federal court on Tuesday following a lawsuit filed by the music industry.

The move came a little more than five months after a US judge ruled in favor of 13 music companies in a copyright infringement and unfair competition case brought against LimeWire.

LimeWire.com featured a legal notice on its home page on Tuesday stating it was "under a court-ordered injunction to stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing software."

The legal notice linked to the court order from US District Court Judge Kimba Wood ordering the closure of the service.

LimeWire chief executive George Searle said in a statement he was "disappointed with this turn of events."

"We are extremely proud of our pioneering history and have, for years, worked hard to bridge the gap between technology and content rights holders," Searle said. "However, at this time, we have no option but to cease further distribution and support of our software."

Searle thanked users of the service and said "our team of technologists and music enthusiasts are creating a completely new music service that puts you back at the center of your digital music experience."

"We'll be sharing more details about our new service and look forward to bringing it to you in the future," he said.

The 13 music companies filed their complaint against LimeWire in 2006 and Judge Wood ruled in their favor in May. In June, eight members of the National Music Publishers' Association filed a separate copyright suit against LimeWire.

LimeWire software was released in August 2000 and uses peer-to-peer, or P2P, technology to allow users to share music or other files over the Internet.

LimeWire is owned by the Lime Group, a New York-based company.

Was bound to happen, although i knew nothing about it seems its been going on a while now and it has followned in the path of Aimster and Napster

[Iggypoppin']

Does this mean I can't download music at all off limewire?? Damn..i buy albums if I really like the band but I usually just download non-mainstream stuff that is harder to find in record shops.

[DJM83]

Originally Posted by Iggypoppin'

Does this mean I can't download music at all off limewire?? Damn..i buy albums if I really like the band but I usually just download non-mainstream stuff that is harder to find in record shops.

Open it up mate there is a link to the the injunction on limewire its kaput

[burnz]

shearaza uses g1, g2, bit torrent, e2k

[Iggypoppin']

I can't check atm Dallas, iPhone and all that. But ok, this sucks but oh well, it's not as if I was dependent on limewire so no harm done really. Thanks for the news though.

[burnz]

Originally Posted by Iggypoppin'

I can't check atm Dallas, iPhone and all that. But ok, this sucks but oh well, it's not as if I was dependent on limewire so no harm done really. Thanks for the news though.

i found windows update now uses "magnet links" that are handled by P2P clients.
possably to spread the load across multi servers without using mirrors.

[GT0132]

Bugger , only recently paid $34 for an annual subscription.

[XlR8TED]

Limewire was horrible in any case. Full of malicious software.

Use a torrent. They'll never be able to shut those down.

[sleek7]

Originally Posted by XlR8TED

Limewire was horrible in any case. Full of malicious software.

Use a torrent. They'll never be able to shut those down.

Yup, I stopped using limewire years ago. In the early days it was brilliant, minimal fakes and no unwanted software, but as time went on it got worse and worse.

[fairmont1998]

Originally Posted by sleek7

Yup, I stopped using limewire years ago. In the early days it was brilliant, minimal fakes and no unwanted software, but as time went on it got worse and worse.

Same. Limewire was brilliant at first, then it just became annoying.

[Ralliart]

Originally Posted by XlR8TED

Limewire was horrible in any case. Full of malicious software.

+1 Completely agree i hate that probgram my sister uses but now she won't wahoo

[HLC]

Originally Posted by XlR8TED

Limewire was horrible in any case. Full of malicious software.

Use a torrent. They'll never be able to shut those down.

this.

[Silversurfer]

Originally Posted by XlR8TED

Limewire was horrible in any case. Full of malicious software.

Use a torrent. They'll never be able to shut those down.

yes totally agree that it was crap , but it kept me busy fixing dufuses pc's for $$$$$$

[flappist]

And about 30 seconds later it started again as greenlemonwire based out of Nigeria.

You can't stop the signal Mal.........

[Brendo_GSUte]

Frost wire is the new lime wire if your not into torrents.

www.frostwire.com

[sleek7]

Originally Posted by Brendo_BAXR8

Frost wire is the new lime wire if your not into torrents.

www.frostwire.com

Yea this one is open sourced. I gave it a crack back when it was fairly new but had bugger all search results. has probably picked up alot more people now though.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by Brendo_BAXR8

Frost wire is the new lime wire if your not into torrents.

www.frostwire.com

Frostwire has the capability to do torrents as well.

Personally I use a program called "Vuze" and either Isohunt or Demonoid for my torrents.

[fmc351]

Demonoid came back, ...as Demonoid. One down, for now, 30,000 more to go.

[Fordman]

Wont stop nothing, but a sad day, everyone knows of Limwire, hell i even remember people downloading the full paid version of Limewire off Limewire itself xD

[WMD351]

Frost wire's been gathering speed for a while now. It's run by a bunch of former Limers anyway and is meant to have many of the Limewire Pro features added in for free. But pirates are bad
Bender does not support the cool crime of stealing

[DJM83]

Originally Posted by WMD351

Frost wire's been gathering speed for a while now. It's run by a bunch of former Limers anyway and is meant to have many of the Limewire Pro features added in for free. But pirates are bad
Bender does not support the cool crime of stealing

Frostwire was mentioned on the court injunction aswell, not sure if it still works i deleted it anyway

[Road Games]

Originally Posted by Fordman

Wont stop nothing, but a sad day, everyone knows of Limwire, hell i even remember people downloading the full paid version of Limewire off Limewire itself xD

Yep then i downloaded Frostwire and it was the same download speed as Limewire PRO- and i kept all the same folders , very freaky !

[TUF_302]

No great loss really limewire was just full of bad news, most the songs you downloaded were terrible quality

[Road Games]

Originally Posted by TUF_302

No great loss really limewire was just full of bad news, most the songs you downloaded were terrible quality

Not my Country an Western ones !!!

I've burned over 80 cd's on my laptop thanks to Frostwire... only a handful of somgs were crap quality..

[Cam]

utorrent + revolutiontt = win

limewire + anything - fail

[adelaidecrows02]

Usenext FTW

[GS608]

demonoid and the pirate bay ftw, stopped using limewire years ago, that and download songs off youtube found a website that does it all for you (grabs the audio only, good quality as well.)

[Yaw]

People will just move on to the next one. Napster, Groskster, Kazza, Limewire, They are gunning for bit torrent, but can't see them doing it, which is why they tried with the iinet/AFACT case and try to hold the isp liable for the piracy.

Apple has shown the world digital music can turn a profit. Just not the kind of profits they are used to. Its time that music/movie companies adapted rather than resisted.

[Rodp]

Usenet is where it's at.

Limewire? I had to check the post date to make sure it wasn't 1996.

[wrongwaynorris]

Perhaps if the music industry didnt sell CD's that cost them 40 cents to produce for $30.00 and a lot of the artists wer'nt so bloody greedy these sites would never gain any traction . Zero bloody sympathy for the music giants and the greedy bloody artists .