Limewire to Finally Close December 31st

CommanderFrank

CommanderFrank

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Embattled Limewire is finally giving it up and completely shutting down all operations. Limewire has been in operation since 2000 and has been blamed by the music industry as being a main reason for overall declining music sales.

"As a result of our current legal situation, we have no choice but to wind down LimeWire Store operations," LimeWire said in a statement on Friday. Despite our dedication and efforts, December 31, 2010, will mark the day when LimeWire Store shuts its virtual doors."
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no matter limewire was a cesspool of garbage littered 128m mp3s with ads . . . i say thankful now all those people that where using it, can start finding quality record music elsewhere :p . .
 
One word... good. Now half of the infected computers I have to look at won't have Limewire as the culprit.
 
I just really hope that when the RIAA puts a bullet into the last form of pirating that the creativity actually goes up instead of just the price of a CD.

Wasn't it getting up to $15-$20 bucks back before the pirating happened? I do purchase my music (or find artist that offer their music for free) but I am distrubed to think of where things might go if the RIAA is in charge of the horse again and no... i don't feel that artist will try any harder to make their music good. Sadly they're probably doing their best right now.
 
there are alternates around frostwire been one of them

so now you will have another one to clean up (only get virus is they stray away from avi or mp3)
 
I dont know why everybody is crying the blues,i was just on crackbook and i seen a pile saying "oh no!! where am i going to get my music from now"? like how stupid are these people??haven't they ever heard of other places like pirate bay,demonoid,isohunt etc,,??the list goes on !!
Anyhow to comment to the guy that stated about the computers he has fixed was infected with viruses by limewire.I totally agree with you there,But to say your glad??that is like shooting yourself in the foot ! NOW thats money out of YOUR pocket and countless other Techs that work on computers fixing them when badly infected with viruses,from limewire...think about it !
 
Thank God Limewire is gone though...

some other shitty p2p program will come out to replace limewire.
 
Good riddance. I fixed far too many machines that were absolutely ruined because of it.
 
Phatal said:
What does that mean for the spin-off alternative client Frostwire?
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Frostwire always shared Limewires network it was just a different client. Unless they created new networks of their own which I have not ever heard of. Honestly though both those networks were a dumpster as far as file sharing went. Those networks had more identity theft than all other networks combined, at least 25% if not more of users that were infected used Limewire/Frostwire. As much money as the makers of Limewire made you'd think they would have cared at least just a tiny bit and cleaned up their networks but they probably never cared about their end users at all and were just in it for the profit.
 
Lets see these record companies next quarterly reports. Its time to buy buy buy guys! :rolleyes:
 
Ultima99 said:
Lets see these record companies next quarterly reports. Its time to buy buy buy guys! :rolleyes:
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I listen to the same old cd's with music from the 50's to the late 90's. I doubt this will effect my demographic. :)
 
Skip_ray said:
I just really hope that when the RIAA puts a bullet into the last form of pirating that the creativity actually goes up instead of just the price of a CD.
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ROFL. Oh hell that's funny. To answer your question:
The same candy assed massed produced crap aimed at 12 year old wanna be's is what would be produced were piracy to somehow be completely stopped. However, there will never be a final bullet. Piracy is not going anywhere as long as we have the internet.

IMHO, anymore a great many of the true artists self publish on line. Anymore, what you hear on the radio and what gets pushed by the studios is bands put together like Lego pieces, or via leg spreading, or nepotism, or a dozen other reasons that have nothing to do with talent, skill, hard work, or good music.

I just can't fiigure out why anyone would want to waste the bandwidth to pirate the vast majority of it. And I really can not imagine why some one would use limewire, when all they need to do is enter the following into google.
filetype:torrent song name here
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Hell, just google the song name and you will find a torrent for it if you really want to pirate it. Then of course there is usenet, and the good old fashioned cd party if you are really hard up for free music.
 
what about torrents? That should account for 90% of all content downloaded per day!
 
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