RIAA Asks the Court to Shut Down Lime Wire

Posted 06/05/2010 at 12:00pm | by Justin Kerr

Many would argue that Lime Wire has been running on borrowed time for years, but their luck appears to be running out fast. The music industry has asked a New York federal court to shutdown Lime Wire permanently, and they might just get their way this time based on the summary judgment leveled against them last month. "Every day that Lime Wire's conduct continues unabated guarantees harm to plaintiffs that money damages cannot and will not compensate," RIAA lawyers wrote to U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood. "The scope of the infringements that Lime Wire induced...boggles the mind."

Representatives from Lime Wire and the RIAA are scheduled to meet before the judge on Monday, but failing any last minute plea bargains, they could potentially be given a final date by which they must fully cease operations. Despite the gloomy prospects for Lime Wire's future a spokeswoman for the company claims "We are looking forward to an opportunity to address the Court for the first time in two years and show that as a matter of fact and law there is no support for this motion."

The RIAA's primary focus at this point is shutting down the service once and for all, but they are also starting to get concerned that Lime Wire's founder Mark Gorton has been squirreling away the Lime Wire profits into "family partnerships". With liability running into the "hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars", the RIAA could find itself raiding an empty cash drawer by the time they finally finish shutting down the service.

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CentiZen

June 06, 2010 at 4:14pm

Oh, this will be entirely effective. Everyone will just switch to another Gnutella client

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FRAGaLOT

June 06, 2010 at 12:53am

These people are so ignorant. Lime wire is just a CLIENT on the Gnutella network, right? Line wire can't be held responsublefor what people post on this network, when a lot of are users who aren't using Lime Wire. Tthere's tons of these clients for all platforms that use the Gnutella network, like Bareshare. Just google search!

Killing off a clent in an already HUGE P2P network isn't going to matter. At least Kazaa (kina), and Napster were on closed networks and shutting that down did acctually stop people from using it. But by the time that came around, there were already other file sharing networks. And bit torret seems to be lead the way.

gendoikari1

June 05, 2010 at 10:53pm

Took 'em long enough. Being able to download Limewire paid from your torrent site of choice while using Limewire free is a textbook example of FAIL.

Move on to better clients.

dethdeks

June 05, 2010 at 10:34pm

i think limewire should stay up as well if people use it i hope they get virus's cause they stupid for even using it in the first place(not for the piracy issue just cause limewire is useless) and i think the riaa should stop being little whinny bitchs and take the dick out of there ass n fuck off. the only reason they went after limewire now is cause they finally relized that even if they take single people to court for piracy n nail them will hugh fines, how they gonna pay it when they broke? but i still think the RIAA should all be put in a house which is then boarded up solid then have a water tanker spray the house with gas n diesel n then toss a match at the bitch n let it burn. the riaa is just a bunch of people who were beat up in school so they decided lets become a high profile group who sues everyone for sneezing in the wrong direction of other peoples stuff n make millions for it. fucking losers

Peanut Fox

June 05, 2010 at 10:53pm

LimeWire falls, and there will be two more to take it's place. LimeWire really only replaced Kazaa, which replaced Bear Share, which replaced Napster and all the infinite incarnations in between these P2P applications. There is already a FrostWire which is pretty much just a re-skinned LimeWire.

RIAA. Believe me when I tell you that the people that use these applications would NEVER have paid for the content anyway. With the high risk of a viral infection and the snailish download speeds, they were just after something for nothing. You're just waisting time.

Gailim

June 05, 2010 at 6:08pm

Lime wire is so consumed with malware I say leave it up. anyone dumb enough to actually use Limewire deserves what they get

Danthrax66

June 05, 2010 at 5:19pm

RIAA = bunch of jackasses having a circle jerk

persondude

June 05, 2010 at 1:05pm

Considering how old Lime Wire is, I'm suprised that it took this long for them to be targeted in this way.

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