Limewire is being sued by riaa and record companies

[ladymatika]

:eek:

http://www.betanews.com/article/RIAA_Sues_LimeWire_Over_Piracy/1154722015

they are trying it again , if they make limewire go off the internet I swear to god I am not buying another blasted thing from those idiots and I'm gonna go tell them that too !!!!!!!!!

[PureSin]

Can yo uplease elaborate on this comment and where you saw/read this article of information?
I would be interested to know if it is going to be similar to Nabster and all users were open to litigation.

Thanks :)

[ladymatika]

I get newsletters everytime the riaa does something , and I copied the address down on the page .
just go to yahoo.com and put riaa in the news headings and it comes up all this crap about the riaa again going after limewire and other p2p file sharing systems.

[1337 Killer]

I hate it how they sue the P2P apps. I hate the RIAA so much...

[Forerunnerrocker]

Psh, Limewire deserves it, filesharing sites like these are putting record companies, and music artists into bankruptcy. also you can get sued yourself into paying millions of dollars back to the record companies, have fun with that

[Only A Hobo]

It has always been a mystery to me how the radio stations that play music (thereby advertising it) have to pay the record companies to play it, whilst all their other advertisements are paid for (quite rightly) by the advertisers.

The Arctic Monkeys have had huge success for two reasons, one is that they are a band who are actually good, and one is that their Demo CDs were available on the internet. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4660394.stm and this prompted huge sales of their first album.

Artists are needing to prove they can actually play something on their instuments and get huge amounts of revenue from concerts, in The Rolling Stone's case even from their support band watching (sorry ..just had to get that in:))

Record companies have been fleecing the artists who are any good for years, and have been living off the talentless artists who they can mould into what ever they like with slick advertising and manipulation of the music charts.

No established artist who is worth their salt is getting forced into bankruptsy by p2p, and were it not for outlets such as podcasting, p2p and the like, new artists who didn't fit into the mould of the record company big cats, would have a very hard time getting noticed by the public.

Limewire is, in any case, firmly dedicated to the ideals of Creative Commons and the sharing of all manner of files which are nothing to do with the RIAA, about whom I'm tempted to say more, but with a possible court case looming, perhaps now is not the time to start slinging wild remarks about :)

[MrPSPFreak]

Limewire rocks!!! I only use Limewire to get music that I can't get on iTunes anyway...that's why iTunes sucks. LIMEWIRE ROCKS!!! And if Limewire gets sued then shouldn't other sites like these get sued too?

[LimeWire Freak]

You can still get LimeWire for free, but it's a rather difficult process and you have to know where [and how] to find it and other downloading programs. I thought my heydays of downloading free stuff was over once I heard the news, but I was overjoyed when I found I could still do my thing; I just had to wait 'til things blew over. Don't wanna say too much, b/c I don't wanna commit treason for myself and fellow LimeWire fans. When they announced that they were gonna make it very frustrating for Kazaa users to upload the program for piracy, I had a feeling that LimeWire was gonna be next. I just knew it was a matter of time b/f LimeWire was caught peddling a program that allowed copyright infringement. The cold, cruel music industry [including the filthy-rich RIAA] can kiss my everlovin' @$$ for all the green egg, tea, and ham in China. If some of you don't like it, then fine, but don't invade this discussion.