LimeWire Shut-Down By Court Injunction

Be fair, attentive, and customers
will return.

LimeWire has been shut-down, stopped
its file sharing after a federal
judge signed an injunction to stop
LimeWire from further business.

The suit was filed by the Recording
Industry Association of America in
the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York,
charged LimeWire with facilitating
"pervasive online infringement."
Also, it accused LimeWire of allowing
and actively encouraging users to
participate in music piracy.

"For the better part of the last decade,
LimeWire and Gorton have violated the
law," the RIAA explained. "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."

The lawsuit was filed against the company
in 2006 on behalf of the major record
labels by the Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA).

LimeWire posted the following on its
web site:

"THIS IS AN OFFICIAL NOTICE THAT
LIMEWIRE IS UNDER A COURT-ORDERED
INJUNCTION TO STOP DISTRIBUTING AND
SUPPORTING ITS FILE-SHARING SOFTWARE.
DOWNLOADING OR SHARING COPYRIGHTED
CONTENT WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION IS
ILLEGAL."