Is LimeWire Closing Down?

[rokdad]

Is LimeWire closing down?

Came across this article at p2pnet..net.

Open source p2p application LimeWire is undergoing changes which suggest owner Mark Gorton is on the verge of taking it offline, at the same time stopping sales and distribution.

Limewire was download.com’s most popular independent Windows file-sharing application in January, and was still number one today (July 27) with Morpheus and Warez p2p immediately behind it.

Its adherents are many and even if the commercial, non-ad application goes, obviously, the free ad-bearing version will still be available from aficianados who will, no doubt, also continue to develop it.

In June, "We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by the clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties," wrote Justice David H. Souter on behalf of the Supreme Court on its Grokster Vs MGM ruling.

Then, "Mark Gorton, the chief executive of the Lime Group, a brokerage firm that makes LimeWire, a file-sharing alternative to Grokster, said he was likely to stop distributing LimeWire in reaction to the ruling," said the New York Times.



Be that as it may, it was among the first major p2p companies to take advertising space in p2pnet and at the beginning of the month, Bildson told us he was reluctantly cancelling LimeWire's p2pnet box and banner ad support as of August saying the company is, "in a state of flux".

Is Gorton shutting LimeWire down completely? - we asked.
No Comment.

If so, is the closure based on the Grokster ruling?
No Comment.

If that's the case, is this a holding measure to allow Gorton to re-evaluate?
No Comment.

If LimeWire is shutting down, will it in effect re-open outside of America, perhaps in France?
No Comment.

Either way, what will happen to the US LimeWire company?
No Comment.

Do you have a message for LimeWire users?
No Comment.

If, as appears likely, LimeWire is being taken off the market, will it be a permanent arrangement, or merely temporary?

Only Gorton knows, and for the moment, he's not talking.



read the whole article here

[silentscream]

i wouldent miss it really

[riderx]

use bittorent = ride those waves until oblivion buddie boy

[Malakai1911]

With all the recent flurry of limewire betas, I imagine they wouldn't close down until after version 5's release.

[mcovey]

No comment.

[rokdad]

They're probably hoping, if they cut and run now they won't catch as much shit after the Grokster decision

[TwoLoud]

limewire is till around? lol


bt...w00t

or how about this go buy things for once, it going to come down to it pretty soon.