After losing a long battle with the RIAA over copyright infringement, LimeWire has finally had to shut down its file sharing platform. The injunction (PDF) which was ordered by U.S. District Judge, Kimba Wood, of the Southern District of New York, prevents LimeWire from offering any kind of P2P services which includes: searching, downloading, and uploading. Commenting on the courts verdict, a LimeWire spokesperson said, "While this is not our ideal path, we hope to work with the music industry in moving forward. We look forward to embracing necessary changes and working with the entire music industry in the future."
Shortly after the courts ruling, the RIAA issued a statement saying, "For the better part of the last decade, LimeWire and Gorton have violated the law. The court has now signed an injunction that will start to unwind the massive piracy machine that LimeWire and Gorton used to enrich themselves immensely. In January, the court will conduct a trial to determine the appropriate level of damages necessary to compensate the record companies for the billions and billions of illegal downloads that occurred through the LimeWire system".
Since covering LimeWire's plans to launch a new legal Ecosystem in a previous blog, the company's vision for the future now looks in jeopardy. With LimeWire potentially having to pay millions of dollars in compensation to record labels, it will now have to try and strike a deal with the RIAA by using its new legal music service idea to stand any chance of survival.
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What are the ramifications downstream? Could individuals who’ve downloaded be classified as having receiven stolen goods? Could they all be charged a fee or a fine or both?
hi jim,
indeed ,and thats the softie view
Plans are well advanced to build high security prisons where
all internet users will be processed into chips and fed to the
fish , the same disagree as they dont find the music you
download to their taste , now if youre not scared of being eaten alive , you can always buy from the proper channels .
Time will tell , but all majors and so called regulating authorities have had it so good for so long , that they can
only sue you to keep the ball rolling , with your money of course .
When the talk is about creativity being stiffled , you probably know yourself many bands which will never make it
to the top 50 , strange! and why ? no exposure at all .
Except with all parallel medias .
Could go on for hours , Ill stop now .
See you in jail