Limewire was a huge website used to download and/or share music,videos and movies. It's a site I, myself used for a few years for all my downloads. Everybody I know used Limewire for their downloads, it was a very popular website. It had everything you were looking for, even new unreleased mp3s and movies still in theatres. So much piracy was done by this system. However, Last year it was closed down after going through a lawsuit for distributing copy-right infringement. Everyone was devastated and had to find new alternatives to finding their music, and such. After searching, there was no website quite as good because many others didn't contain the amount of content Limewire had, or it was very poor quality.
Over thirty publishers and thirteen record labels participated in the lawsuit against Limewire. Record companies own copyrights to the recordings and record labels own copyrights to the songs themselves. (http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2032464/limewire-settles-lawsuit-music-publishers). As Limewire distributed everything under the sun, such people as EMI, Sony Cooperation, Vivendi, BMG, Sony BMG, etc got themselves involved. However an agreement was brought between Limewire and the publishers in which the details have not been made public. The case was dismissed and decided that it could not be brought back up in court again (http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2032464/limewire-settles-lawsuit-music-publishers).
If I had to guess what the agreement was, it was probably Limewire giving the publishers money to drop the lawsuit and promise to either not re-open their systems and continue to distributed music or to create an alliance that will re-open their servers in the future as a website to sell mp3s. Something like that. It would be ideal to join forces to create a website where content such as mp3s, videos and movies are sold rather than distributed illegally. They could make a lot of money and compete against such services as iTunes.
LimeWire was a great website, but not safe what-so-ever, there were so many bugs and viruses that came with it. I also must disagree about nothing quite like it came out because there's Utorrent, it also has everything LimeWire had and more, plus with much much better quality, if you know how to look.
ReplyDeleteI don't use any of those software's for my music. I have my top three trusted download sites that I go to regularly and I think it's better because I've never had a problem with viruses so far. I actually never had Limewire and was just about to try it when it closed down. I think everybody was kinda sad when that happened... Let's see how many other sites they'll try to close down.
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