RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) requested the court on Friday to shut down the largest commercial file-sharing service, LimeWire.
Last month, a federal court found LimeWire to be liable for copyright infringement. The U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York granted summary judgment against LimeWire, going by the music industry’s claims that Lime Group, and the founder Mark Gorton committed copyright infringement, induced copyright infringement and engaged in unfair competition.
The Judge said in her decision, “The evidence demonstrates that [Lime Wire] optimized LimeWire’s features to ensure that users can download digital recordings, the majority of which are protected by copyright and that [Lime Wire] assisted users in committing infringement.”
Representative of RIAA and LimeWire were asked to present themselves in court on Monday, June 7, 2010.
The court decision today may prove fatal to the nearly ten-year-old file-sharing service, costing Mark Gorton as much as a billion dollars. A Lime Wire spokesperson said, “”We are looking forward to an opportunity to address the Court for the first time in two years and show that as a matter of fact and law there is no support for this motion.”
Everybody knows that nothing can be done to prevent LimeWire users from using the software to pirate more music. If LimeWire is closed, most users will just shift to some other file-sharing tool.
According to the record companies, nothing can compensate for the music pirated through LimeWire. They only hope that at least some of the LimeWire users will choose to use legal services like the iTunes and Amazon in the future.
Tags: copyright infringement, file-sharing service, LimeWire
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