Court shuts down LimeWire music-sharing service

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Court shuts down LimeWire music-sharing service
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday granted the music industry’s request to shut down the popular LimeWire file-sharing service, which had been found liable for copyright infringement.
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R.I.P. Limewire, Stealing Music With You Will Be Missed
After battling with the music industry in the US court system for almost half a decade, a federal court in New York finally shut down peer-to-peer file sharing website Limewire with a permanent injunction, saying the program caused a “massive scale of infringement.” Since Napster eventually collapsed under the strain of its legal battles, Limewire became the […]
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