Court unplugs file-sharing service LimeWire, for copyright infringement

[Shay O'Boyle]

U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood had ruled in May that LimeWire was a party to infringement, and this week she ruled it must immediately stop “searching, downloading, uploading, file trading” and other illegal distribution. Limewire lasted an entire decade, but the Supreme Court's 2005 Grokster decision laid the foundation for the record labels to pursue it. Even with LimeWire dead, other file-sites based on the BitTorrent software continue to offer music, movies and more.

[retired]

They are only about 8 years too late.

[mick heaphy]

people who want to download music for free will do so and if one site closes another will open in its place. the record labels are losing the battel in my opinion and the sooner they accept it the easier either their demise or redefining what they are about will be for them. also people are making music at home now are the record labels going to try stop that as well? after all unlike using file sharing websites, making music at home isn't against the law.

[HammerJ]

I made a point of only downloading legally for the months of May and June this year.Most of the tracks I downloaded I seldom if ever use now!

The cost of the downloads varied from €.99c to €1.49 per track and all went on the credit card.The cost for 50 days ran to €276.29 and that was aside of what I bought in HMV etc,and I was selective in what I bought.
Instead of just downloading tracks because there were in the top 20 I first listened to them and decided whether to buy or not.

What gets me is that the pay per track sites just don't have the latest tracks either you have to pay now and wait until the release date,and these same tracks are freely available elsewhere on the net.
I would love to just pay for all my music and get the proper bit rate that I want.But only if it's at a price that makes downloading legally worthwhile.

[Red Room]

I made a point of only downloading legally for the months of May and June this year.Most of the tracks I downloaded I seldom if ever use now!

The cost of the downloads varied from €.99c to €1.49 per track and all went on the credit card.The cost for 50 days ran to €276.29 and that was aside of what I bought in HMV etc,and I was selective in what I bought.
Instead of just downloading tracks because there were in the top 20 I first listened to them and decided whether to buy or not.

What gets me is that the pay per track sites just don't have the latest tracks either you have to pay now and wait until the release date,and these same tracks are freely available elsewhere on the net.
I would love to just pay for all my music and get the proper bit rate that I want.But only if it's at a price that makes downloading legally worthwhile.

I use iTunes and I don't laying my hands on new music an issue. Maybe if you are looking for mashes it won't suffice but as a rule they are not mixed by the artists themselves. Bit rate is dependent on what I set from iTunes (My default music manager) and the quality of what you download is 100%.

I can understand the ease of using Limewire etc but it's just as easy to source music on the legit nowadays so the access argument is moot. It's above board and it's legit plus a clean copy every time. I'd not want to go out and use am amp or a mixer that I didn't pay for or know isn't top quality so when it comes to music I don't feel why it should be any different.

Also, online purchases means I'm not stuck with 7 or 8 tracks of a CD I don't need plus finding somewhere to keep the wretched music piles.

[mick heaphy]

i myself wouldn't touch limewire its full of bugs i get my music from other places, most of it i do buy on cd but if i want one track i download i don't accept anything under 320 k mp3

[Mike]

i myself wouldn't touch limewire its full of bugs

and spyware