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U.S. court rules the closure of LimeWire
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 27 October 2010, 21:48 IST
New York: A Federal court judge in U.S. has given out the ruling to shut down LimeWire, a music sharing service owned by the Lime Group. The popular service was found liable of copyright infringement in May. A trial to determine the extent of damage caused is expected in January 2011.
As per the court ruling, pronounced by the U.S. District Court in New York, Lime Group would require disabling the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and distribution features of LimeWire with immediate effect.
LimeWire was founded in 2000 by Mark Gorton. And since the last four years, Gorton has been fighting a legal battle with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the body representing the U.S. recording industry. The contention made by RIAA is that LimeWire's software encourages illegal sharing of copyright-protected music.
Jonathan Lamy, Spokesman, RIAA said, "The court has now signed an injunction that will start to unwind the massive piracy machine that LimeWire and Gorton used to enrich themselves immensely."
Lime Group however stated that the digital music store of LimeWire would still be available. It also added that it was working on a new software which will include a desktop media player, mobile apps and a catalog of music from which people can stream and download songs and will adhere to copyright laws as well. However nothing has been mentioned about the launch of this new service.