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Limewire down and taken out!

Limewire have recently taken their site down and in its place they've posted a note that says it all.

Quote:Legal notice

This is an official note that Limewire is under a court ordered injunction to stop distributing and supporting its file sharing software. Downloading or sharing copyrighted content without authorization is illegal.

Limewire have announced today that they've been ordered to disable the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and / or all functionality of the Limewire software after being issued a permanent injunction from US District judge, Kimba Wood.

Quote:The court has now signed an injunction that will start to unwind the massive piracy machine that Limewire and Mark Gorton used to enrich themselves."

Limewire was released 10 years ago and quickly emerged as one of the favourite ways to pass pirated music across the Web. Mark Gorton, Limewire founder, and his company have acknowledged making millions from offering the software.

Mark Gorton offered to license music from the top four record companies for Spoon, Limewire's unknown legal music service. The deal fell through after Gorton's lawyers insisted that the music labels allow Limewire to continue to operate for a year so users could be moved over to Spoon.

Limewire as a company still exist but they no longer operate as a file-sharing service. What the New York based company will do in the future is unclear.

Boom, a ship out of the water. Thing is, on Limewire itself can you still do stuff?

Agreed. Limewire going is a good thing, that thing was full of crap. No idea myself, the last time i used Limewire must of been... ooo.. 3 / 4 years ago.

If they've done the take down properly, all servers should also be shut down effectively stopping it all. Limewire can no longer be shared, but they can't do anything about the copys all ready out there.

Nah, everything for LW is dead. No sharing or anything.
That'll teach those 13 year olds to get a proper client

Thank god this shit has shut down, now my cousin can't download shitty viruses on her pc!

The servers are still there. I disagree with all of you, Limewire isn't full of viruses at all. I have downloaded 15GB of music from Limewire not taken a single virus from my music. The music is all still accessible. Limewire is completely legal software, so there was no reason for it to be taken down. The illegal part is the Gnutella network. If they want to take it all down, that's what they should attack. Limewire is just an amazing client for limewire.

I never downloaded a single virus during the brief period I had it, but it certainly removes a lot of newfags from the piracy circle, so yeah, go cops!