LimeWire file-sharing site shut down in US

[gmb45]

An injunction issued by the US district court in New York has effectively shut down LimeWire, one of the internet's biggest file-sharing sites.

It ends four years of wrangling between the privately-owned Lime Group and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

The injunction compels Lime Group to disable its searching, downloading, uploading and file trading features.
The firm plans to launch new services that adhere to copyright laws soon.

Visitors to the LimeWire website are confronted with a legal notice that reads: "This is an offical notice that LimeWire is under a court ordered injunction to stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing software."
It adds that "downloading or sharing copyrighted content without authorisation is illegal".

The RIAA told the AP news agency that it was pleased by the judge's decision.
"It will start to unwind the massive piracy machine that LimeWire... used to enrich themselves immensely," said RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy.

LimeGroup appeared to acknowledge defeat.
"We are out of the file-sharing business, but you can make it known that other aspects of our business remain ongoing," Lime Group spokeswoman Tiffany Guarnaccia told AP.
The firm is working on developing new software that will adhere to copyright laws.
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[Cronus]

Does anyone actually use Limewire anymore???

[bobwill]

have not used it for years I found to many viruses and you
often did not get what you thought you had downloaded

[gmb45]

frostwire still running, its more or less the same as limewire

[sob1467]

Does anyone actually use Limewire anymore???

I do but I don't use it as much as I use to because of Itunes

[johnboy1974]

limewire was old news anyway.
nobody uses it anymore with the introduction of newsgroups utorrent etc etc.it wont be missed and an equivilent will pop up anyway.

[Strykerforce]

I used it a lot. ... Although, I noticed now a days that a lot of files shared had viruses. So, need to be careful which file to be downloaded. Nice INFO m8, I need to uninstall this software in my laptop then.

[smirnoff_rules]

lads time to move to newsgroups , not 100% safe but close

[masur123]

lads time to move to newsgroups , not 100% safe but close

You have just broke rule number 1!

[Meat-Head]

You have just broke rule number 1!

OFF TOPIC:-

When growing up, when ever my friend and myself had a problem with car, bike, whatever his dad would always say "Can you turn it around"
That became 'Rule number 1'

ON TOPIC:

Explain why it's broken
Sminoff please explain more for straight poeople, thanks

[masur123]

Newsgroups have been around longer than the internet. When some clever so and so discovered that they could allow binaries to be transferred across this network, the first rule was

"Never talk about Newsgroups to the masses"

Obviously its an outdated rule now, and although they are relatively safe now, the next focus I foresee for the MPAA and RIAA will be the big news group hosters.

[Cronus]

Newsgroups have been around longer than the internet.

Usenet was 32yrs old this year

[chroma]

Does anyone actually use Limewire anymore???

THIS!
The only thing i can remember about programs like morpheus, kazaa, limewire, gnutella, winMX and the like is virus spam, lots and lots of viruses.

Not used any of them since i moved from dialup close to a decade ago.
Had no idea they where still alive and kicking.

[Meat-Head]

Usenet was 32yrs old this year

Cool, so what sort of 'data' was sent across?

[smirnoff_rules]

Cool, so what sort of 'data' was sent across?

the fist one was

" O no meat-heads about to be born "