LimeWire Defiant in Face of RIAA Pressure
Written by enigmax on March 25, 2007Despite being ordered to Cease & Desist and then sued by the RIAA, LimeWire is refusing to cave in to industry pressure and is prepared for a long fight. Installed on an amazing one-fifth of desktops worldwide, LimeWire’s popularity has never been greater and in their battle against the RIAA, millions will be cheering them on.
LimeWire just doesn’t want to die; it’s digging in against the pressure to settle with the RIAA and is refusing to join the likes of Grokster, Kazaa, iMesh, Bearshare and MetaMachine (eDonkey) in the ‘where are they now?’ department of P2P file-sharing. Those that have caved in so far have agreed compensation - to the tune of $200+ million in settlements. Joining them would be very painful for LimeWire.
The RIAA sued the Lime Group for $150,000 for each of the songs downloaded using LimeWire. CEO Mark Gorton and Greg Bildson (Chief Technology Officer) felt that the action was taken as “one part of a much larger modern conspiracy to destroy all innovation that content owners cannot control and that disrupts their historical business models”. LimeWire counter-sued the RIAA for anti-trust violations and consumer fraud.
This Tuesday, in a discussion between Digital Music News and the RIAA, some details of the drawn-out legal process with adversary LimeWire were revealed.
According to a source, LimeWire CEO Mark Gorton had anticipated the inevitable legal clash and has been preparing for it for years. With a nod towards the Kazaa case, its claimed there is no paper trail that would show LimeWire is guilty of inducement as laid out in the relevant section of the Grokster decision, detailed below.
“..one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties”
Jonathan Lamy representing the RIAA said “They respond. We respond. They respond, etc. Then discovery. These things take a long time”.
They sure do.
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I hate Limewire myself, but it’s good they are going against those damn RIAA bastards! It would be a success for P2P in general without a doubt.
hell yeah. Limewire knows what’s up.
If limewire does fall frostwire will just take its place :D
if limewire does fall frostwire will be right behind it. if limewire falls, i think p2p is pretty much f’ed in the a.
The RIAA knows its time has come and is fighting for survival.
Each day that goes by some piece of music somewhere emerges from the cover of copyright. Each day the back catalog of the RIAA is losing some of its value. New music they publish is to a great extent atrocious. Noise and junk. New emerging artists know how bad the RIAA [whatever label] will try to screw them as hard as they can with atrocious contracts. They go their own way. This is the day of the internet. You can stop peer-to-peer file sharing the day you stop ftp transfers. Any thoughts on when that will be?
Anyone?
As more and more artists and groups learn how you set up your own website, marketing and distribution, others will want to know how to do that too. They’re not going to be as widely known as heavily marketed bands and artists, but they will have the rights to their own music. The public will decide if it’s good enough to get it.
The RIAA is the dinosaur, trashing against the march of time. What we see now are its death troes. And they know it :).
Fuck RIAA!! We are not in the 90s, we are in Digital Era! and u cannot go against a Community! Stupid Bastards.
RIAA must die!
Limewire sucks, but fuck the RIAA.
Please people, RIAA has a name (i.e. SONY) do not let a marketing strategy help those F**ing ass*** get with a clean name.
Why are they being so nice to Adobe if they are prepared for the fight with thr RIAA?
http://www.limewire.org/blog/?p=206
limewire is stupid . i’d prefer the real thing anyday than downloading music from that stupid thing anyway it’s full of virus’es so if you wanna mess up your computer and have to pay for another cause your computer get’s messed up from a virs on limewire then that’s pretty silly . Limewire is full of spyware and virus’s really bad one’s . limewire sucks .
Poor Alan, obviously you know little about computer’s and virus’s If you can’t speak intelligently about a topic don’t speak at all.
correct holy crap limewire always gives me good files. but then again I know what to look for when it comes to picking the right files to download. As far as limewire goes its not the best. I choose soulseek over all them, pretty much seems the riaa doesnt persue them mm wonder why. they also have a bigger file base. Im thinking torrents
will take the place of P2p eventally. well thats my two cents peace all!!
Thank you Limewire!
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