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Limewire is a 'pirate'
ANCIENT PEER-TO-PEER SERVICE Limewire has finally lost in court to the big music companies.
A US judge has ruled in favour of 13 recording companies in a copyright infringement case against the popular online filesharing service. According to the Associated Press, US District Court Judge Kimba Wood ruled that Limewire and its owner Mark Gorton were liable for inducing copyright infringement and that the service constituted unfair competition.
In a 59-page ruling Judge Wood said that the evidence established that Limewire users directly infringed plaintiffs' copyrights, and that LimeWire engaged in purposeful conduct intended to foster that infringement.
She added that the free distribution of the recordings through Limewire competed with plaintiffs' sales of the recordings and that this was unfair competition.
Mitch Bainwol, chairman of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), welcomed the ruling, calling it "an important milestone in the creative community's fight to reclaim the Internet as a platform for legitimate commerce."
In a statement, Limewire CEO George Serle said that the company "strongly opposes" the court's decision but indicated it is willing to work out a deal, adding "LimeWire remains committed to developing innovative products and services for the end-user and to working with the entire music industry, including the major labels, to achieve this mission."
The next step will be to see how much the music industry claims from Limewire. On the basis of its previous claims, we imagine that Limewire will face a bill that's large enough to bail out Greece plus pay all British MPs' expenses claims. µ
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Can't wait until courts rule against the users of an entirely citizen-run non-centralized P2P with the same ruling, declaring that the customers of the free system are engaging in unfair competition. Hey, it's just a small jump to getting rid of that pesky open source from there.
the 5 users will be gutted.
When I was younger, if you wanted music or a book etc you had to buy the physical item it came on. Part of the blame must go to the industry itself. They love digital, because your basically selling air. If you make something easy to steal people will take it. The other end is that people who don't steal by basically losing control of our computers. Microsoft and others has no business policing our computers , but they do.
When I was younger, if you wanted music or a book etc you had to buy the physical item it came on. Part of the blame must go to the industry itself. They love digital, because your basically selling air. If you make something easy to steal people will take it. The other end is that people who don't steal by basically losing control of our computers. Microsoft and others has no business policing our computers , but they do.
Why do so many people believe that recording artists and songwriters don't deserve to make a living? Please let us know what you do as work so that we can rip you off to keep things fair and balanced.
The point is that the lawsuits are way to late, the RIAA would be better off thinking of how to intercept the problem in the future than hunting down people w "Ancient Servies". People have moved on and Limewire is a no op....
loved the greek reference in the article.
Come on limewire! give us the money!!!
I see that the first comment here is from the "Parasites With Hypertrophied Sense Of Entitlement" Party.
Oddly enough, he does not seem to understand that the purpose of the law is not to provide him with everything he wants, at no direct monetary cost.
Returning to reality, I fail to see how LimeWire thought that they could win, and in fact, have to wonder if they and their lawyers actually thought that their case was winnable. Possible the real reason for contesting the suit was an attempt to keep some of the profits that they have derived from the copyright infringement which they have so assiduously cultivated over the years.
Although sad it is not unexpected for USA where freedom is a foreign term.
I wouldn't be surprised if they sued them for murder because, let's say some music nazi boss had a stroke when seeing how much garbage he didn't push to paying sheep.
Please stop writing about american non-existent legal system, there is no point. It would be easier to write about the ever changing and weird world of Alice... :)