Limewire shut down

I did notice over the past few days limewire has been going slower. This must be the reason why. Honestly I'm not too happy about it, since Itunes decided to raise prices on music.

 

They are so many equivalents to limewire so it doesn't really affect anybody.


there are s omany more convenient ways to download music than limewire.

I do one click music downloads instant download for up to 20mb track.

 

You really think the internet hasn't hurt the entertainment industry? You trollin?

(Note these first references are from as late as 2001-2002, the internet has grown much more since then)

The prices of records have fallen: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1932344.stm

Sales have dropped: http://news.cnet.com/Music-industry-Piracy-is-choking-sales/2100-1027_3-996205.html

Recent stats:

Impacts of piracy, decline: http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20100428.html

Compare growth in years 2000-2009: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best-selling_albums_by_year_in_the_United_States

 

This was bound to happen. Limewire's been around far too long.

 

LOL are people really feeling sympathy for the music industry, the record labels that exploit artists and have enough money to buy towns. You don't have to worry about the music industry going out of business anytime soon, as long as there is a demand it will be here.

 

Frostwire is still running strong its basically the same thing.....its still available so im moving all my files there

 

Meh I knew it was coming just never thought it would be so soon. What ever I will just get music another way.

 

I've never used Limewire properly before, the first time I tried it, I ended downloading some random crap which gave me a few trojans and viruses. Since then I've only bought music legally, or got it from friends.

 

whatever doesnt affect me, i hate limewire music. most of it is bad quality

 

i never used limewire in the first place to download music theres a hack in itunes that lets you download albums for free... i use that but you have to download the full album not individual songs

 

this is honestly so lame, i usually got my music from limewire.

 

There are still plenty of torrent sites that people can use. Many people use torrents instead of programs like lime wire because people enjoy downloading albums rather than individual songs. This isn't really a big loss. Plus for people who are interested and rap & hiphop there are plenty of sites that let you download albums/mixtapes of the artist.

 

Everyone can still use frostwire, and you can sync your music with the program called winamp and it will make the music 10x louder & clearer:love:

 

Its all about money...

Itunes is way to over priced if you ask me. Say its a $1 a Song yer thats ok if you Download a few songs but if your wanting to download All your Favs that would easy add upto 250 Thats $250 Thats alot of money for Young People its Unfair...

Any way, GF. Nice Find

 

I'm happy they were forced to shutdown.

 

limewire died out like 3 years ago in my opinion.. it was just took too long to get what you wanted and there are quite alot of viruses on it. IMO, this will have no effect on the music/whatever business as there are plenty of other sources...

 

Yeah, when I saw that I cried. I loved that program.
RIP Lime Wire, and your viruses will be missed.

 

They do not have an indisputably fair case. Copyright laws in America are utter shit and need to be rewritten. Once you buy something, its yours. No one can tell you what you can not do with it. Thats complete bullshit. The multimedia cooperations are fucking rich as hell. They just want to make more money, that they honestly do not need.

It is IMPOSSIBLE to stop piracy. Impossible without government mandated censorship and even then it would be hard. If the government censors the internet, I'm moving to fucking Canada.

 

I used Limewire like all the time

 

Frostwire is still here guys.