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RIAA thinks LimeWire owes $75 trillion in damages

The music industry wants LimeWire to pay up to US$75 trillion in damages after losing a copyright infringement claim. That's right . . . $75 trillion. Manhattan federal Judge Kimba Wood has labeled this request "absurd."

By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 27 March, 2011 01:45

Tags: web legal issues, intellectual property, copyright, web, legal, Recording Industry Association of America, music & video sharing, LimeWire, internet
LimeWire to close online music store on December 31

LimeWire will close for good on New Years Eve as it will shut its legitimate online music store permanently.

By Carrie-Ann Skinner | 07 December, 2010 01:34

Tags: PC security, security, Desktop security, Internet & broadband, LimeWire
LimeWire is quietly resurrected: It's baaack!

Less than a month after its "permanent shut down," LimeWire has been resurrected by an anonymous dev team -- and it's better and more powerful than before. Or, well, something like that.

By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 10 November, 2010 01:35

Tags: servers, Networking, peer-to-peer, music & video sharing, LimeWire, Tech industry
Court orders LimeWire to cease file-sharing business

In a major victory for the music industry, a New York federal judge has ordered embattled P2P software maker LimeWire to immediately and permanently stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing software.

By Jaikumar Vijayan | 27 October, 2010 10:15

Tags: riaa, peer-to-peer, LimeWire, content piracy, file sharing, P2P
US FTC drops P2P file sharing probe of LimeWire

In a rare break for LimeWire, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week decided to drop its investigation into the embattled software company's controversial Peer-to-Peer file sharing software.

By Jaikumar Vijayan | 27 August, 2010 04:39

Tags: Federal Trade Commission, Networking, security, LimeWire, privacy, file sharing

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LimeWire chairman: P2P concerns overblown

Lime Group Chairman Mark Gorton found himself in the hot seat last week during a hearing on the problem of inadvertent data leaks on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks including his company's, LimeWire. The hearing was held by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

By Jaikumar Vijayan | 05 August, 2009 00:17

Tags: LimeWire, file sharing, P2P