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LimeWire's file sharing halted by injunction

By DANA WOLLMAN Associated Press

Oct. 27, 2010, 7:34AM


NEW YORK — Lime Group, whose LimeWire software has allowed people to share songs and other files over the Internet, received a federal injunction Tuesday to disable key parts of its service.
The privately owned company and its founder, Mark Gorton, have been wrestling in court with the Recording Industry Association of America, the body representing the U.S. recording industry, for four years. The RIAA contends that LimeWire's software encourages illegal sharing of copyright-protected music. In May, Lime Group was found liable of copyright infringement; a trial to determine damages is expected in January.
The injunction, issued by U.S. District Court in New York, compels Lime Group to disable LimeWire's searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and distribution features, effective immediately.
"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," said RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy.
Lime Group spokeswoman Tiffany Guarnaccia said LimeWire's digital music store will still be available.
"We are out of the file-sharing business, but you can make it known that other aspects of our business remain ongoing," Guarnaccia said.
Lime Group is also working on a new piece of software that the company promises will adhere to copyright laws. The new service will include a desktop media player, mobile apps and a catalog of music from which people can stream and download songs.
Guarnaccia said the company is far along in developing the software but declined to say when this service might launch.
Making the new service a success will require negotiating deals with the record companies to stock LimeWire's music. It is not clear what, if any, deals Lime Group has struck so far.
 

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Good now it can stop slowing down computers everywhere with it's java bullshit.
 

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LIMEWIRE out, Spotify In

Hot on the heels of the European-only subscription service’s denial of an Apple takeover comes word that Spotify has completed successful negotiations with the four major record groups to make their stateside debut. The major labels and pubcos had previously opposed the service’s commercial-supported, free model, as well as a premium version, which charges for accessing your playlist from mobile devices ad-free. We hear an official announcement is soon to come. The service already has 600k subscribers in a variety of European countries, including the U.K. and Sweden.
 

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There are still TONS of sites that you can get free music/movie from - and I imagine there always will be.
 

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