LimeWire shutdown!
It's happened – The Limewire service is SHUTDOWN!!!.
Due to a court-ordered injunction, the popular file-sharing software has been blocked from the Gnutella network.
According to a quote from PCMag.com, Lime Wire spokesperson Tiffany Guarnaccia told PCMag.com that "the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality, and/or all functionality; of LimeWire's P2P file-sharing software" has been disabled.
According to the PCMag.com article, Lime Wire still hopes to be reborn as a copyright-friendly service that will provide direct sales of copyrighted materials to the public.
The article points out that the plaintiffs, the music industry basically, is in a position to cash-in on Lime Wire's established user-base – which ranks in the millions – by helping to re-establish the Limewire service as a bonafied distribution network.
If you've recently installed Limewire, you'll notice that the service simply will not launch. Zero, zilch, nada.
A component was added to recent versions of Limewire that enables Lime Wire to halt the Limewire software on your computer.
According to the article on PCMag.com, this feature was added clandestinely – a definite indicator that Lime Wire wants to play ball with the Industry Giants who have become infamous for DRM and clandestine activities buried in software.
Right or wrong, can't blame them really – selling and reselling and reselling and reselling the same song is great business.
According to my research about file-sharing and "pirated" muisc/video, the industry will come out the looser, since file-sharers are a lot more apt to buy legal/official copies of the movies and songs they "pirate", than people who don't.
... and this from the control-freak!!!
Personally, I think Frostwire, (Frostwire is available in Ubuntu's repositories), just got the nod from the RIAA, since many die-hard Limewire users will now simply switch to Frostwire or another P2P service. – Here's the link:http://www.frostwire.com/
Resources:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371462,00.asp/
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/drm.html
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/market_news
http://torrentfreak.com/the-war-on-sharing-why-the-fsf-cares-about-riaa-lawsuits-090513/
http://www.frostwire.com/
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What's up with your website's
What's up with your website's layout? I'm using Maxthon to browse your site and the whole layout is messed up, though it works fine when I use Firefox.
re- Maxthon compatibility
Yo Charlie...
Not sure if that's a Maxthon web-standards compliance issue, or if it's a problem with my site's html output.
As far as I know, all the output from my CMS is standards compliant, so chances are the issue is Maxthon-specific.
InternetExplorer was notoriously quirky for years, often requiring special workarounds in order to get it to play nice with standards-compliant sites.
Thanks for pointing it out, I'll try to find out if the issue is originating on my end, or if it's a quirk/bug which the Maxthon developers still need to address.
– Brad
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