Music Piracy Down After Limewire Shutdown
After the shutdown of the popular P2P music/file sharing program Limewire, the NPD Group is reporting a drop in overall piracy going on! Here are some deets: Filesharing activity fell from 12% of U.S. Internet users in the third quarter of last year ...
LimeWire Settles with Record Companies for Only $105 Million
The settlement is a far cry from the $75 trillion that record companies demanded for the "enormous damage" the peer-to-peer network wreaked on their profits. First there was Napster back in the early Oughts which earned the ire of everyone from David ...
LimeWire Settles With Record Companies for $105 Million
LimeWire, the peer-to-peer file-sharing network that was shut down last year following a federal injunction that kept its users from sharing copyrighted material, has agreed to a $105 million out-of-court settlement with 13 record companies. The ...