ChosenOne Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 The New York District Court, at the request of the RIAA, has forced LimeWire to shut down its network and cease distributing its software. TorrentFreak has the full story, and updates will surely follow as more data becomes available. That a U.S. federal judge would finally grant RIAA's request comes as a numbing shock to the system. Perhaps the RIAA simply drew the right judge -- this is the same Judge Kimba Wood that found LimeWire guilty of copyright infringement back in May -- or maybe the lawsuit just snowballed in gravitas until it became unignorable. For those of you that use BitTorrent, you might be surprised to hear that LimeWire is still most-installed P2P application with a market share of 37% -- uTorrent, by far the largest BitTorrent client, only has a 14% market share. If LimeWire really has been shut down -- and stays down -- this could affect the entire makeup of the Internet. LINK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish7718 Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 :o wow man, been around forever I shocked they finally got it shut down, does this include frostwire too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Check my Stats Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 What happens to frostwire then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AboveLegit Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 Torrents and Mediafire ftw. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRV Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 Frostwire ftw....its the same [expletive] and I am pretty sure its still up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChosenOne Posted October 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 Frostwire is still up, and more than likely will be up for a while, it took over 4 years for Limewire to get shut down, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 Youtube to MP3, emp3world.com, and albumhunt.com are all you need to get ANY song you want without having to use any of the torrent websites (which rely on seedings and all that crap, and more likely to give you viruses). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Check my Stats Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 albumhunt is sweet but limewire and [expletive] was sweet for quickly and easily downloading singles. anyone remember morpheus? lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobb Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 Private trackers FTW! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BasX Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 Filestube through blogs are sick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish7718 Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 Youtube to MP3, emp3world.com, and albumhunt.com are all you need to get ANY song you want without having to use any of the torrent websites (which rely on seedings and all that crap, and more likely to give you viruses).4shared.com is another good 1, I knew about albumhunt, thats one of my favs as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 albumhunt is sweet but limewire and [expletive] was sweet for quickly and easily downloading singles. anyone remember morpheus? lol. That's why I said Youtube to MP3 (any of them) or emp3world.com is also what I use (only for singles). And yeah, Morpheus was like the original Limewire. Good times... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JYD Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 i'm thinking this then sets a precedent for other programs such as this? i saw a lot of people's facebook statuses were freakin out about this hahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pooh25 Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 Torrents and Mediafire ftw.Mediafire? 4Shared ftw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NomarFachix Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 Poor Geek Squad, won't get the steady influx of absolute morons who can't fix the viruses they get off that [expletive] program they call Limewire. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owner Real Deal Posted November 1, 2010 Owner Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 Can't discuss illegal downloading on the site, fellas...sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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