Judge Pulls the Plug on LimeWire

[tehweave]

Does anyone use limewire anymore? It seems like if they wanted to attack this directly they should go to bittorrent...

I doubt that limewire will actually stop its software:

1. It's a peer-to-peer file sharing system. Nothing illegal about that. (Yes, probably 90% of people or more use it to download illegal software, but all in all, they can't stop the software.)

2. There are other forms of file sharing software. Limewire is just the most well known (maybe?) one. If they take down this one software, they'll have to take down peer-to-peer file sharing in general.

 

[kwagamon]

Judge: Pirates, you can't use LimeWire anymore!
Pirates: But FrostWire has all the exact same stuff, is widely considered better anyway, and is still operational.
Judge: Goddamit...

End of story.

 

[eyedonutkair]

I agree that limewire is mostly spam and malware now. Peronally, we should all boycott buying music. It's not the musicians that are charging us friggin 15$ for a CD with 9 songs on it, it's their label. Of course, the musicians want the money, especially after having to deal with the label and their contracts, but I kind of want to think that the musicians would rather get paid directly from us at 6 bucks a cd than at 12 bucks a cd and giving over 80% of it away. On the other hand, I don't really know how the percentages work, who's getting the money, or if the musicans are always cheated. I DO know however, that I stopped buying music years ago because of price. I make decent money, but I could totally spend 15 bucks on my woman, myself, my videogames and food instead of a cd. Thank god for Droids and iphones, huh.

 

[Callate]

I'm pretty sure the water's still flowing. How many little Dutch boys do you have to hold back the tide, guys?

 

[Ashbax]

Hell, even if they managed to take down every possible program/site for downloading music, people could still just go on youtube and convert the music videos/lyrics videos into Mp3 files...I used to use limewire, but now I just do that. Limewire has too many fake files. And anyway, I just checked - you can still DL stuff off limewire, they just state that its illegal on the front page.

 

[Mcface]

There is a reason why The Pirate Bay hasn't been taken down.

They were raided a while back. But there are dozens of other torrent hosting sites that keep popping up when one is taken down. Totally a losing battle.

They seem to like attacking services after they're already irrelevant. Napster, and now Limewire.

They were raided a while ago.
Recently TPB has been off and online constantly, but it's mostly due to them falling behind on server and hosting fees.

 

[Cryo84R]

About time.

 

[thePyro_13]

Now I'd like to see major record label companies increase their profits buy $500 million per month as a result of this injunction.

It always gets me when companies say piracy is costing them arbitrary amounts of money. Its illogical. I don't condone piracy. I also don't support the ridiculous(and ultimately futile) efforts to try and beat piracy.

 

[Mcupobob]

Limewire?? I didn't even know that was still around. I thought it was just a withered husk of spam and viruses. Like some over used whore casted a side.

 

[Tsaba]

where did they get these numbers? a box of cracker jack?

 

[Captain Bobbossa]

Limewire was run by idiots anyway, one example being that you can download limewire pro... of of limewire...

 

[USSR]

Seriously?

You just took away the garbage can of piracy.
I mean, come on.

That was a scrapyard.

 

[Staskala]

Why would they do away with limewire?
Wasn't this like the only program where they actually managed to track pirates? Which is also why only idiots used it anway, but hey, better catch someone than noone, I guess.
Now with this ruling all of them will use other means to get their stuff, good job.

 

[Starke]

Sounds like rubbish to me.

My money says this is overturned pretty quick.

I'd take that money. There isn't really reversible error here, Limrewire is a violation of secondary infringement laws, and anyone who says otherwise is either blinded by personal prejudices or simply doesn't understand copyright laws.

 

[Starke]

Sounds like rubbish to me.

My money says this is overturned pretty quick.

I'd take that money. There isn't really reversible error here, Limrewire is a violation of secondary infringement laws, and anyone who says otherwise is either blinded by personal prejudices or simply doesn't understand copyright laws.

No doubt piracy occurs on Limewire, but if they ban this, should they not ban Google? Pretty sure people use that to find and download programs and music illegally.

Limewire has never said "Use our program to commit piracy."

You want to make an argument that Google has violated their Safe Harbor protections, you're more than welcome to, but the fact of the matter is they are abiding by contingencies that are required to maintain safe harbor. Limewire didn't, and then tried to dodge the issue by making sure they didn't have the ability to enforce safe harbor. I guess we can see how well that worked for them.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Goodness. They sure took their sweet time killing Limewire.
They stopped being relevant, what? 3, 4 years ago?

 

[thatstheguy]

I would say this sucks, but then I realize nothing of value was lost.