LimeWire has been permanently shut down after a federal judge found it guilty of assisting users in committing copyright infringement "on a massive scale."The shut-down is the final chapter in a case brought against LimeWire LLC by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) over four years ago.The suit, filed by the RIAA on behalf of eight major music publishers in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, charged LimeWire with facilitating "pervasive online infringement." It also accused LimeWire of allowing and actively encouraging users to participate in music piracy.During the court proceedings, the plaintiffs claimed that over 93 percent of the software's traffic was made up of infringing content.
In May 2010, federal Judge Kimba Wood found LimeWire LLC liable for copyright infringement. She also found LimeWire founder Mark Gordon to be personally liable. The RIAA then made two separate motions--one for permanent shut down of the company, and the other for freezing of the company's assets.
I have to admitt i have used LimeWire to download music before, then i stopped. You could start to tell that people were pirating music becuase of all the ads in the beginning of songs and by the amount of results you recieved by searching a song. I believe LimeWire also allowed you to post music through so type type of account through its file sharing. LimeWire has cost the record lables millions of dollars in lost of record sales. Dont get me wrong, record companies are aware that music is being pritated everyway, but when you can get any and everything for free thats just wrong. Record companies love to see what songs are doing well and how many people are willing to download them illegaly to determine the status of an artist and the publics options. But there are sites where you can get music legally for free. People should really start to explore their options.
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