WTF...... Limewire is shutdown
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missjcapri
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Wtf am I suppose to do now? Where else can I download music? This is some ? ..............
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/oct/27/limewire-shut-down
Limewire, one of the world's most popular peer-to-peer filesharing websites, has been shut down after a four-year legal battle with the US music industry.
A federal court in New York issued a "permanent injunction" against LimeWire late on Tuesday, ruling that the platform intentionally caused a "massive scale of infringement" by permitting the sharing of thousands of copyrighted works by its 50 million monthly users.
Founded in 2000 by Mark Gorton, a former Wall Street trader, LimeWire is now restricted from allowing the searching and sharing of copyrighted material. The website will continue "working with the music industry to move forward", a LimeWire spokeswoman confirmed.
US judge Kimba Wood ruled that record companies "have suffered – and will continue to suffer – irreparable harm from LimeWire's inducement of widespread infringement of their works", adding that the potential damages were "staggering".
The court also ruled that LimeWire should "use all reasonable technological means to immediately cease and desist" copyright infringements still taking place through applications already downloaded.
Yesterday's court order comes after a four-year legal battle between LimeWire and the Recording Industry Association of America, the representative body for many of the world's largest record labels.
In May, Wood found LimeWire liable for widespread copyright infringement. The level of damages faced by the site's New York-based parent company, Lime Group, will be decided in January 2011.
The RIAA said LimeWire has cost the music industry hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
According RIAA figures, US recorded music sales fell to $7.7bn in 2009 from $14.5bn in 1999. The rise to prominence of peer-to-peer filesharing networks is singled out as a primary factor for this decline by the RIAA.
The site's popularity is reflected in a survey by NDP Group, which found that LimeWire was used by 58% of people who have downloaded music from a peer-to-peer network in the year from May 2009.
Following Tuesday's injunction, the RIAA said: "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."
Earlier this year, LimeWire planned to release a service called Spoon, which would allow users to legally purchase copyrighted tracks. The deal fell through, however, when record labels were told that the site would need at least a year to migrate illicit filesharers to the new service.
Napster, which claimed more than 100 million users at the height of its popularity at the beginning of the decade, collapsed in 2002 under the strain of a number of legal challenges.
The company reinvented itself as a legal download service in 2004, later launching what it claimed was "the world's largest and most comprehensive MP3 store", before unveiling a "freemium" model – similar to that of Spotify – last year.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/oct/27/limewire-shut-down
Limewire, one of the world's most popular peer-to-peer filesharing websites, has been shut down after a four-year legal battle with the US music industry.
A federal court in New York issued a "permanent injunction" against LimeWire late on Tuesday, ruling that the platform intentionally caused a "massive scale of infringement" by permitting the sharing of thousands of copyrighted works by its 50 million monthly users.
Founded in 2000 by Mark Gorton, a former Wall Street trader, LimeWire is now restricted from allowing the searching and sharing of copyrighted material. The website will continue "working with the music industry to move forward", a LimeWire spokeswoman confirmed.
US judge Kimba Wood ruled that record companies "have suffered – and will continue to suffer – irreparable harm from LimeWire's inducement of widespread infringement of their works", adding that the potential damages were "staggering".
The court also ruled that LimeWire should "use all reasonable technological means to immediately cease and desist" copyright infringements still taking place through applications already downloaded.
Yesterday's court order comes after a four-year legal battle between LimeWire and the Recording Industry Association of America, the representative body for many of the world's largest record labels.
In May, Wood found LimeWire liable for widespread copyright infringement. The level of damages faced by the site's New York-based parent company, Lime Group, will be decided in January 2011.
The RIAA said LimeWire has cost the music industry hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
According RIAA figures, US recorded music sales fell to $7.7bn in 2009 from $14.5bn in 1999. The rise to prominence of peer-to-peer filesharing networks is singled out as a primary factor for this decline by the RIAA.
The site's popularity is reflected in a survey by NDP Group, which found that LimeWire was used by 58% of people who have downloaded music from a peer-to-peer network in the year from May 2009.
Following Tuesday's injunction, the RIAA said: "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."
Earlier this year, LimeWire planned to release a service called Spoon, which would allow users to legally purchase copyrighted tracks. The deal fell through, however, when record labels were told that the site would need at least a year to migrate illicit filesharers to the new service.
Napster, which claimed more than 100 million users at the height of its popularity at the beginning of the decade, collapsed in 2002 under the strain of a number of legal challenges.
The company reinvented itself as a legal download service in 2004, later launching what it claimed was "the world's largest and most comprehensive MP3 store", before unveiling a "freemium" model – similar to that of Spotify – last year.
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Use "soulseek"
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king hassan wrote: »Use "soulseek"
ummm is it gona give me a bunch of crazy viruses? I just got a new laptop buddy.... -
I was using Frostwire, which is an offshoot of Limewire. Gonna have to check to see if Frostwire got the plug pulled as well.
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DrMindbender122 wrote: »I was using Frostwire, which is an offshoot of Limewire. Gonna have to check to see if Frostwire got the plug pulled as well.
Ive heard of that.....check for me please -
missjcapri wrote: »ummm is it gona give me a bunch of crazy viruses? I just got a new laptop buddy....
nah, I've been using it for years never had a problem -
Youtube.
Hard to believe a lotta people are still sleeping on that for music. -
king hassan wrote: »Yo my dude, how you download ? off youtube. Actually I have program on my computer I just copy the songs but I wanna just download it straight off youtube.
video2mp3.net You're Welcome -
um... maybe BUY it?
I know... it's old school as hell, but try it sometimes. -
video2mp3.net You're Welcome
co-sgn...easiest method out there for singles...soulseek and torrents are still boss for albums and discographies. -
video2mp3.net You're Welcomekonceptjones wrote: »um... maybe BUY it?
I know... it's old school as hell, but try it sometimes.
I'm mos def copping those Preemo joints when they drop -
konceptjones wrote: »um... maybe BUY it?
I know... it's old school as hell, but try it sometimes.
well im a broke college student so buying music doesnt really fit in my budget right now
Plus half of the artist out dnt deserve my money....... -
missjcapri wrote: »well im a broke college student so buying music doesnt really fit in my budget right now
Plus half of the artist out dnt deserve my money....... -
Lmao @ using limewire in tweeny tin
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missjcapri wrote: »well im a broke college student so buying music doesnt really fit in my budget right now
Plus half of the artist out dnt deserve my money.......
then don't support them at all.
At the same time, I'm sure you could fork over $1 for a single you thought was hot from iTunes or something. -
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If you use Firefox then download this add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/124500/
and it will give you a "download to mp3 button" on all youtube vids (click the pic to see what it looks like on the sample).. it will open another page, you willm see the percentage of conversion (usually last less than 15-30 secs) then the word "download" will be highlighted.. click it and you should have the mp3 in 10 seconds from there -
king hassan wrote: »Co-? sign, smh @ me paying over ten bucks for 2 songs worth bumping on a album
I know.....the only album I plan on buying is j. cole's debut when it drops -
You....You..you use Limewire?
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lol people still using limewire?
right...
that's like sayin people still dubbin tapes. -
People still use Limewire?
Edit: Seriously, I'm surprised it still even existed (until now) -
I just use rapgodfathers or a torrent
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Obviously enough people still use it for them to shut it down permanently
If millions of people weren't still downloading ? , it would still be up and running -
thats what everybody said when napster got shut down, free music isn't gonna end with limewire. just use mediafire or megaupload or filestube or something
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Word, I stopped ? with P2P/torrents, years ago.
HTTP>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>_________ -
Youtube.
Hard to believe a lotta people are still sleeping on that for music.
Ya if you know I get madd music off youtube a lot of hard to find ? too.