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...Then, illegal downloads available through sites like Limewire almost destroyed the music business, and for more than a decade there was no viable solution in sight....
...British investment -- Monitoring the monitors -- The impact of the printing press on growth -- Big tech’s Yes Men soothe each other’s nerves -- Donald Trump Jr gets heckled on campus...by the right -- Limewire...
...However this amounted to no more than a passing of the baton to copycats like Limewire and Kazaa, which soon became go-to destinations for voracious music downloaders everywhere....
...There was no compromise on quality: consumers could not distinguish between a CD version of Jay-Z’s Big Pimpin’, or the MP3 off Limewire. Many audiophiles will argue this is out of ignorance....
...The industry had sought damages of more than $1bn from LimeWire, but the jury trial made that goal uncertain....
...Even though Limewire has settled this case – details of which have not been disclosed – the service is still locked in a different copyright battle with a raft of record labels....
...Lime Brokerage was co-founded in 2001 by Mr Brown and Mark Gorton, the same entrepreneur who founded the well-known LimeWire file-sharing service and also founded Tower Research Capital, which specialises...
...This turnround is the result of a concerted effort to take down the most egregious file-sharing sites, such as LimeWire, which was closed last year, making it harder for casual users to pirate music....
...Revenues from digital downloads and online streaming services also increased, helped by the blow to file-sharing from last October’s shutdown of LimeWire, a peer-to-peer site, they added, while ebbing ringtone...
...Nobody will leave 25m files on Limewire [the largest illegal peer-to-peer site] to go to 1m [on Spiral Frog] or even five or six million [on iTunes].”...
...The Stones’ original fans may never have heard of Limewire or Pandora, DRM or P2P, but they have the disposable income to indulge their nostalgia....
...Limewire 6. Odc 7. Wikipedia 8. Skype 9. Nickelodeon 10. Blogger Source: Nielsen//NetRatings...
...Grokster’s decision to cease operations and other networks’ agreements to install filter technology and curb abuses, music piracy is still rampant and the industry is pursuing cases against services such as Limewire...
...“If Joe Blow can go on LimeWire and get it - that’s the proof of the pudding.” Others said they are eager for new recruits in the technology arms race....
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