{"id":5702,"date":"2010-10-28T14:47:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T13:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=5702"},"modified":"2022-06-09T12:27:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:27:10","slug":"lime-wire-finally-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/lime-wire-finally-closes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lime Wire Finally Closes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5703\" href=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/lime-wire-finally-closes\/me-like-lime-hats\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5703 lazyload\" title=\"me like lime hats....\" src=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/me-like-lime-hats.....jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"408\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/me-like-lime-hats.....jpg 480w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/me-like-lime-hats....-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Limewire, one of the internets most popular file-sharing websites, has finally been shut down after along dispute with the RIAA.<\/p>\n<p>The US district court has issued an injunction which effectively ends a four-year dispute between Lime Group and the Recording Industry Association of America.<br \/>\nStrictly,\u00a0its complete closure\u00a0isn&#8217;t\u00a0quite true, but the company has been told to disable its search, download and upload functions, which for a\u00a0file-sharing\u00a0site, is certain doom.<\/p>\n<p>On top of this, the company has finally admitted what we were all thinking and confessed to being illegal. A message on Limewire.com states: &#8220;This is an official notice that LimeWire is under a court ordered injunction to stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing software.\u00a0Downloading or sharing copyrighted content without authorisation is illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Lime Group spokeswoman acknowledged that the company was now \u201cout\u201d of the file-sharing business.\u00a0But she added that they were working on alternative ideas that adhere to copyright laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limewire, one of the internets most popular file-sharing websites, has finally been shut down after along dispute with the RIAA. The US district court has issued an injunction which effectively ends a four-year dispute between Lime Group and the Recording Industry Association of America. 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