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Music Game Masterpiece Rock Band3 Available Today in North America and Worldwide This Friday
Harmonix, the world’s premier music video game developer, and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks , today announced that Rock Bandâ¢3, the next generation in the ultimate social and interactive music gaming platform, is available today in North America and will be available Oct. 29 in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and other territories for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment …
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Limewire has been shut down
The music has finally stopped for file-sharing website LimeWire after the plug was pulled by a New York City judge.
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Court Order Could Squeeze LimeWire Dry
A vestige of the music wars at the turn of the century was shut down Wednesday by a federal district court judge in Manhattan. File-sharing service LimeWire was ordered by Judge Kimba M. Wood to stop distributing its peer-to-peer software because its overwhelming use was to encourage its users to make unauthorized copies of copyrighted material.
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