RIAA Wins Lawsuit Against LimeWire, Big File-Sharing Changes Coming
The RIAA won a major lawsuit against LimeWire yesterday, in a ruling that found that the makers of the LimeWire software can be charged with copyright infringement. This changes the old idea that software makers aren't responsible, individual users are.
This is notable for two reasons: first, LimeWire still exists, apparently, and it is used by 58 percent of people who illegally downloaded stuff last year (use RapidShare you dorks!). Second, this could mean a major exodus by illegal users to other file-sharing software, which in turn could open up every platform to being sued by the RIAA (look out, BitTorrent). This could very well be the beginning of the end of the wild wild west that has been illegal downloading in the past 10 years. [CNET]
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