File sharing part 2: what happened to Limewire?

I said that I would have part two, "what happened to Limewire" up by Sunday. obviously, I am a day late.
Never the less, there are some new developments on the "Limewire case" which are much more interesting then the information that was available last week.

the following is from Wikipedia:

On May 12, 2010, Judge Kimba M. Wood of the United States District Court ruled that LimeWire and its creator, Mark Gorton, had committed copyright infringement, engaged in unfair competition, and induced others to commit copyright infringement. On October 26, 2010, LimeWire was ordered to disable the "searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality" after losing a court battle with the RIAA over claims of copyright infringement. The RIAA also announced intentions to pursue legal action over the damages caused by the program in January to compensate the affected record labels. In retaliation, the RIAA's website was taken offline on October 29 via denial-of-service attacks executed by members of Operation Payback and Anonymous.

In response to the ruling, a company spokesperson said that the company is not shutting down, but will be

"using its best efforts to cease distributing and supporting P2P software."

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What the page doesn't say, however, is that Limewire had announced it was going to begin operating again in the near future, legally, with a pay-per-song model (ala iTunes. )

Limewire scrapped those plans last week, when they announced that they would close their already existing  indie music store, and would not open another store, as they said they would earlier. the indie store will close sometime later this month.

              

the trail will continue in January 2011, when it will be decided how much Limewire has to pay  the RIAA. 

The always money hungry RIAA says that Limewire owes them at least 1.5 trillion dollars.

Amendment VIII TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES:

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

yes, it was an extremely short post, I know, but not much information has been released to the general public.



Deo Tecum,

Brandon Montgomery