will limewire closing make any difference?

[karyn]

from yahoo

Limewire music-sharing service to close December 31

NEW YORK (Reuters) – LimeWire -- one of the world's biggest outlets for people to share music, movies and TV shows free of charge over the Internet -- said it would be shutting down by the end of the year and closing its sole office in New York.

In October, a U.S. federal judge granted the music industry's request to shut down the popular LimeWire file-sharing service, which had been found liable for copyright infringement.

"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."

LimeWire also said its plan to bring a separate, legal music service to market had been canceled.

Founded in 2000 by Mark Gorton, LimeWire has been a thorn in the side of record companies because millions of fans used it to download music for free.

The music industry blames online and physical piracy as the primary reasons for declining music sales.

(Reporting by Soyoung Kim, Jonathan Stempel and Yinka Adegoke)

[Raza]

Not really. I haven't used limewire in years, there's better programs around for the same thing.

Which is not to say that it wasn't an admirable initiative.

[mystoo]

Limewire sucked anyway.

[Mr Karl]

when it comes to music I make a point of only downloading mettalica.......everything else I want I'm perfectly happy with just going to the store and buying it, so I never really bothered with that

[mystoo]

Ha-Ha! Are you being serious?

[Ajax Knucklebones]

Limewire basically turned into a bunch of virus' pretending to be music files, waiting to be downloaded.

[Mr Karl]

Ha-Ha! Are you being serious?

absolutely......they kind of lost me as a fan when they made it obvious that it was all about the money, thier record labels didn't make the fuss all those years ago, it was them personaly...........

[VoltaireBlue]

Limewire basically turned into a bunch of virus' pretending to be music files, waiting to be downloaded.

^^^^^^This.^^^^^^^

absolutely......they kind of lost me as a fan when they made it obvious that it was all about the money, thier record labels didn't make the fuss all those years ago, it was them personaly...........

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