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LimeWire granted two-week reprieve, might shut down

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On June 7, 2010, 4:17 PM

US District Judge Kimba Wood has granted LimeWire two weeks to respond to a motion filed Friday. The popular peer-to-peer file sharing software suffered a major legal defeat against the RIAA last week, after LimeWire founder Mark Gorton was found liable for copyright infringement, induced copyright infringement, and unfair competition.

Wood's ruling could follow any time after LimeWire responds to the filing, although the RIAA does have up to two weeks to counter LimeWire's submission. Legal analysts believe the case will result in the file swapping application's demise, and the RIAA has said a damage award could top a billion dollars. LimeWire, of course, begs to differ.

"We feel a permanent injunction is not the best course of action," said the company. "It could hold back the creation of new digital music technologies that LimeWire is in the process of developing, and does not benefit the industry as a whole. Following today's court appearance, we will be submitting our opposition brief."

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  1. actually i dont use limewire or any other P2P softwares... what i use are private torrent sites! none of the torrents are infected with viruses cuz there is a 24/7 modertaion system... none of the files will be uploaded to the site untill its checked for viruses... and all the torrents are 100% working and clean thats why i choose private torrent sites.

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  2. The government will never win. I don't see why they even try! There's always a loophole, to everything. I believe we all withhold the capabilities to reveal these loopholes and spread the word. Lime-wire's down, use frost-wire, that goes down, use torrents, that goes down, we'll obviously find something else.

  3. limewire was the best creation ever. i cant believe they finaly after all the years are trying to shut it down

  4. Well I'd love to agree with CaptainCranky but let's face it they have been ripping us off for decades it doesn't even take 15 dollars to make cd's this is what I've found that it takes between art and supplies that it cost the company's around $2 to $3 per disc made, I also know some of the money is to pay the artist but really they need to jump to 15 to 20 dollars for just 9 to 11 songs on average so that's like paying two dollars per song in a rough estimate not that I'm saying it's right to steal but for a good portion of people it's ridiculous to pay that much for one disc now "if the company producing the music figured this out" people wouldn't want to use p2p site's and just to tell you everything I " " was because the other guy is right the company's have become money hungry and way to greedy anymore and that's the main reason they sell about 10 times the cost to make the CD

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