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world's fastest LimeWire, Close by copyright

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A court order from a court in New York ordered the closure of LimeWire, one of the exchange sites larger files from the Internet.
The program allowed the transfer of files between users through network-to-peer (P2P), which, according to the recording industry, digital piracy caused by sharing songs and movies.

The decision ends a four-year dispute between the company Lime Group and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA, for its acronym in English).

The company says it will soon launch new services that respect copyright.
According to the RIAA, LimeWire operation resulting in the loss of U.S. $ 500 million dollars a month. The figure is obtained by considering those who illegally download songs legally buy them if they had no other choice.

But specialists in the field believe that this argument is not always correct, as the prices of some songs or movies beyond the budget of the people.

A long way

But what does the closure of LimeWire? The first impression is that this is one more of the music industry battles waged against this type of service, but it is far to end digital piracy.

In fact, it is not the first time you close a site of this nature. In the past, similar services such as Napster and Kazaa, stopped operating after a court order, only to appear later on other services such as LimeWire.

And the legal battle against each of these tools takes years.

Even this week it unveiled a new application for Android, FrostWire, which allows the exchange of files through the device.

Today, in addition, there are many alternatives to LimeWire, as MP3Rocket, BitTorrent and uTorrent, which have been described by industry as "like" and could become the new target for record companies.
Meanwhile, the court of appeals Stockholm is to be announced on November 26 if the file sharing site Pirate Bay is guilty of copyright infringement.
The site defends itself by saying that they do not host any material, only provide links to.

Some have begun to launch innovative services like Spotify, GrooveShark and We7, which offer free music in exchange for advertising or a monthly subscription, and some experts believe that this could be one of the alternatives to end digital piracy. Via

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