I used to use Limewire, then i got virus, i used Torrents, My PC got virus and died, Now i just buy music, Makes you love the artist and appreciate the music a lot more.
LimeWire Settles with Record Companies for Only $105 Million
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I didnt even think this was still going on.
eh, Limewire hasnt been relevant to me in a while. i dabbled in Frost wire (at least the format) thugh I never used it. the one day I was going to, I eneded up getting an email for an offer ont he CD I wanted anyway.
besides, I'd be a bit more worried by people just buying Cds and spreading it around between friends.
eh, Limewire hasnt been relevant to me in a while. i dabbled in Frost wire (at least the format) thugh I never used it. the one day I was going to, I eneded up getting an email for an offer ont he CD I wanted anyway.
besides, I'd be a bit more worried by people just buying Cds and spreading it around between friends.
75 Trillion dollars, is that all. Hell they should have asked for a unicorn and the moon while they were at it.
I could never get Limewire to work worth a damn. People actually got music off of that thing? Every single time I attempted ANY search, be it for an obscure porn video, obscure Richard Hell bootleg, or a random Kinks song to fill out my collection, I almost always got back 100s of results that were labelled exactly what I was looking for, but what always ended up being Spyware latched onto crappy quality viral videos that had nothing to do with anything. They didn't make Spyware for mac (back then), so it wasn't a huge problem, but still. It was useless.
I feel the same way about torrents. Unless it's a mainstream film already out on DVD, the chances of finding a quality torrent for something that's actually difficult for me to otherwise see (not on TV, not on Netflix, not for rent) are pretty slim. Thanks, but I'm busy not watching Transformers 2 on Cinemax.
I feel the same way about torrents. Unless it's a mainstream film already out on DVD, the chances of finding a quality torrent for something that's actually difficult for me to otherwise see (not on TV, not on Netflix, not for rent) are pretty slim. Thanks, but I'm busy not watching Transformers 2 on Cinemax.
We need to go back to the early days when there were thousands of small indipendant recording companies and alot of bands just made there own. When a company gets to big they get evil, FACT!
LOL, i'm sorry but this whole arrangement is no different than the Geohot debacle. Music makers getting money from source that is merely a fraction of the stuff found on the net. Good old laws of the US of A, fighting for the rights of anyone that has money to throw around.
Who the hell was still using Limewire? These days everyone just pulls audio off of You tube, which is perfectly legal, or at very least not illegal. Or they just use torrents which are really difficult to track and are becoming less and less useful thanks to the whole extracting video and audio from streaming sites method. This lawsuit was four years too late.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I was wondering that myself. Hell they don't even make anywhere close to 75 trillion, so how could they justify that? (Obviously it is the opium)Formica Archonis said:
The man is a hedge fund manager and runs a software company. These numbers were likely there to indicate just how wealthy he is. That is to say, very wealthy indeed.RadiusXd said:
I get that record companies would prefer to stay in business, but how exactly do you expect to charge for an abundant resource?
It's like a water company charging for rain since it came out of their resevoirs.
Edit: didn't answer your question. limewire made money from advertising. same thing as napster.
Sexual Harassment Panda said:
There'll be one's on sale for 5 dollars every once in awhile.
Lime Wire is a really shitty, awful program, I don't think people actually used it anymore. So I don't think the RIAA really achieved anything today.