Limewire is shutting down.

[kaysee]

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=12309578

LimeWire to Shut Down Completely on Dec. 31

LimeWire to shut down its remaining legal operations on Dec. 31, cancel forthcoming service Lime Group, whose LimeWire software was barred from letting people share copyright-protected files over the Internet, will shutter the remainder of its operations on Dec. 31, the company said Friday.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=12309578


It has taken a while but the law is quicking gaining ground on copyright infringements. US agencies have been knocking plenty of skulls in the last few months.

 

[Burzum]

People still use LimeWire?

 

[Biggy_Boy]

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=12309578



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It has taken a while but the law is quicking gaining ground on copyright infringements. US agencies have been knocking plenty of skulls in the last few months.

Yeah, because in 2010, everyone was still using limewire, right? Maybe this would be relevant news 4 years ago. Most people moved on from LW long ago or will be able to easily find other outlets for pirated content.

Torrents, Usenet, direct downloads, other p2p clients. No one will be gaining any ground on piracy if they are so many steps behind.

 

[kaysee]

Settle peeps... was simply bringing attention to it.

On top of
- recent US Dept. of Homeland Security shutting down about 70 other infringing sites.
- Googles recent announcment to implement anti-piracy measures.
- As well as increasing prosecutions against illegal downloaders.

I guess it is like looting stores during riots... you can get away with it for a period of time but law and order are eventually restored.

Each to their own... but like any other laws... don't whinge about it if you get busted and punished.

 

[Smoooothy]

Settle peeps... was simply bringing attention to it.

On top of
- recent US Dept. of Homeland Security shutting down about 70 other infringing sites.
- Googles recent announcment to implement anti-piracy measures.
- As well as increasing prosecutions against illegal downloaders.

I guess it is like looting stores during riots... you can get away with it for a period of time but law and order are eventually restored.

Each to their own... but like any other laws... don't whinge about it if you get busted and punished.

they shut down 70 sites, but they'll have a bit of trouble with the 200 that have since replace those 70 (short term anyway)

1 shuts down, 3 open in it's place

 

[Zarrix]

I don't get why the recording industry is wasting time and money with these court battles. It can't be beaten, so you might as well join them.

What they have done here is like this:

Say there are many roads into a town. They have simply decided to shut down the longest, rockiest road that no one ever uses anymore.

 

[Nardz]

isn't limewire just a client of the gnutella network? and that network will still be operation will it not?

would it just be as easy as downloading frostwire, the lightweight version of limewire that is almost functionally identical?

seriously these fools will never learn. it's been about 15 years since the first mp3's started hitting the internet, and since then they've been swearing black and blue that they'd stamp out this shocking new piracy, meanwhile it has grown from strength to strength. they haven't even managed to put a dint in the armour of piracy.

 

[Biggy_Boy]

It doesn't matter what they shut down, there will always be some means of distribution as long as there are scene groups releasing stuff.

 

[Nardz]

so limewire/frostwire is finally useless

what are people using these days?

nzb seems to be the way to go to download albums, but what about common tracks?

(i'm asking for a friend... who downloads products for eductational purposes before purchasing them )

 

[jo172]

http://www.video2mp3.net/

 

[smiddaz123]

http://www.video2mp3.net/

Legend.

 

[Xtreme]

so limewire/frostwire is finally useless

what are people using these days?

nzb seems to be the way to go to download albums, but what about common tracks?

(i'm asking for a friend... who downloads products for eductational purposes before purchasing them )

A relative that has no clue with torrents and the like has been using frostwire for 3+ years, but over the last few months has struggled to successfully get every song she has searched for.

It's always my fault that it's not working , even though i have explained the situation with it shutting down and the easiest thing to do would be to itunes/bigpondmusic it up. But she won't have any of that, as it costs money .

My preference is to buy the cd wherever i can, however a lot of the music i like to buy (tv show and movie soundtracks), can't be purchased in store these days. So i pop on itunes, bigpond music or other pay to download services and get my music that way. I've survived on a single $100 bigpond music gift cards per year for the last 2 years.