Tag archive: LimeWire

It appears that we’re living in a post-Megaupload era. Shortly after the site was taken down by authorities and the ensuing drama of Kim “Dotcom” Schmitz  played out before our eyes, torrent site BTJunkie has decided to shut its doors. While BTJunkie wasn’t forced into shuttering its service, the site voluntarily decided to quit. “This is the end of the line my friends,” the site now reads. “The decision does not come easy, but we’ve decided to… Read More

In a move supported by movie studios, record labels and the Obama administration, Internet providers have banded together to form a universal policy that imposes penalties on illegal downloads. The system allows for six strikes on an account with warning levels. The process starts with emails that require acknowledgement from the account holder. If the warnings are completely ignored, the final strikes result in decreasing Internet speed and… Read More

The LimeWire saga continues. Today, the RIAA announced that it reached a $105 million out-of-court settlement with LimeWire, a now defunct file-sharing network. This settlement comes a year after after a judge ruled that the P2P network actively helped users violate music copyright laws. The network has been down since October. “We are pleased to have reached a large monetary settlement following the court’s finding that both LimeWire and… Read More

Alkiviades “Alki” David, wealthy entrepreneur and founder of FilmOn.com, has gathered up a group of recording artists and filed a class action lawsuit against CBS, CNET, LimeWire and the Lime group in regards to copyright infringement. The present lawsuit against CBS and the Lime Group actualizes a statement to sue which David made last year in December via YouTube. The claims made by Alki David in the 2010 video include: CBS helping Pakistan,… Read More

Market research group NPD has released on update to its Music Acquisition Monitor survey, and finds that the number of U.S. Internet users getting music via peer-to-peer file sharing networks has reached an all time low. According to the figures, just nine percent of American Internet users got music via P2P services in the fourth quarter of 2010—that's down from 16 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007. And NPD doesn't… Read More

The Pirate Bay struggles to operate while constantly being blocked, and the founders have faced numerous convictions, but still they are unrelenting. Just as the industry has formally waged war against piracy and may even be able to totally disseminate Pirate Bay, the infamous BitTorrenters are launching something new. It will appear on the domain fear.themusicbay.org, which is sporting nothing but a “comming soon” [sic] headline. In an… Read More

Well that didn't take long. LimeWire, a peer-to-peer file sharing network  that was shut down due to music pirating, has been pirated. A group of hackers have rebuilt the program and re-released it. According to TorrentFreak, a “secret dev team” has “reanimated the lifeless corpse of LimeWire and like an irrepressible file-sharing zombie, the world's favorite Gnutella client is back.” Gnutella is the network… Read More

The era of peer-to-peer filesharing may be ending. Today, CNET reports that U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood issued an injunction ordering the LimeWire online service shut down. The ruling comes as a victory for the RIAA, which has been fighting Lime Wire for years, contending that it promotes the illegal download of music and costs the industry in upwards of $500 million a month. The injunction comes after the judge issued a summary judgement in… Read More

Following the court decision that found LimeWire’s creators liable for distributing illegal content, the Recording Industry Association of America has now asked the courts to shut down the file sharing service, claiming that the illegal sharing has been continuing and it shows no signs of stopping. If the judge agrees, LimeWire’s service would shut down, the software would not be available to download, and it could not advertise. It could return… Read More

In what may turn out to be a major victory for the music industry, U.S District judge Kimba Wood has ruled that the creators of the peer-to-peer file sharing software LimeWire are liable for copyright infringement conducted by users of their application when they downloaded pirated music. In a 59-page ruling, Wood sided with more than a dozen record companies suing LimeWire, granting a summary judgement and finding LimeWire's creators… Read More

You knew it had to happen: once Australia's Kazaa file sharing service was forced to pay damages and declare its intentions to go legit, the world's largest records labels are turning their attention to still-running file sharing services. And on Friday August 4, Sony BMG, EMI Group, Universal Music, and Warner Music Group filed suit against peer-to-peer sharing service LimeWire in Manhattan federal court, alleging the company… Read More