Tag: LIMEWIRE

LimeWire officially shut its doors in October, and many potential pirates have been left in a lurch wondering where they can get the latest Lady Gaga album for free. Alternatives like FrostWire and BitTorrent have seen an uptick in use since the insanely popular sharing network went down, but not quite the jump one would have expected. In fact, since the courts brought down the P2P file-sharing ...

Cash-strapped record labels are undoubtedly rejoicing today, now that LimeWire has officially shut down its peer-to-peer filesharing client. As All Things Digital explains, the move comes in response to a federal court injunction that requires the company to shut down "the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality, and/or all functionality" of its core ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The Recording Industry Association of America recently triumphed over filesharers in a momentous Limewire copyright suit, and now the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) apparently hopes to achieve its own victory over Google. The BPI has issued a cease and desist letter to the search engine in hopes that Google will remove ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) already nailed the file-sharing site Limewire in court, but the RIAA won't be content with a possibly devastating monetary settlement. The organization is reportedly seeking a permanent injunction against the site, because it wants the courts to "rein in this massive infringing ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... HTC's's much-hyped Evo 4G for Sprint officially arrives June 4th, with a $199 post-rebate price. Yesterday, Sprint revealed the model's default specs, which include a 1-gigahertz processor, an 8-megapixel camera, video chat capabilities and an 8-gigabyte SD card. The phone also awesomely lets users link up to eight other devices ...

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Matthew White, of Sacramento, California, has found himself in a rather unfortunate situation; he's been accused of downloading child pornography. On the advice of his public defender, White is pleading guilty in hopes of cutting his potential 20-year sentence down to three and a half years. After serving his time, White will have to serve 10 years of probation and register as a sex offender. ...

You may think that that only average citizens are susceptible to security breaches that result in identity theft, but you'd be wrong. The rich, famous and powerful can also fall victim to the technological plagues of the 21st century. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer's name, birth date, and Social Security number were compromised when an employee of Wagner Resource Group decided to ...

Music file-sharing site LimeWire never enjoyed the popularity of its spiritual predecessor, Napster, but it certainly has enjoyed as much legal trouble due to all the swapping of illegally-copied music that takes place with its software (particularly on Macs). For example, the RIAA is demanding $150,000 for every illegally shared song on LimeWire, which we're sure would be an almost incalculable ...