Limewire down and taken out!

[Mark]

Limewire down and taken out!

Limewire have recently taken their site down and in its place they've posted a note that says it all.

Legal notice

This is an official note that Limewire is under a court ordered injunction to stop distributing and supporting its file sharing software. Downloading or sharing copyrighted content without authorization is illegal.

Limewire have announced today that they've been ordered to disable the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and / or all functionality of the Limewire software after being issued a permanent injunction from US District judge, Kimba Wood.

The court has now signed an injunction that will start to unwind the massive piracy machine that Limewire and Mark Gorton used to enrich themselves."

Limewire was released 10 years ago and quickly emerged as one of the favourite ways to pass pirated music across the Web. Mark Gorton, Limewire founder, and his company have acknowledged making millions from offering the software.

Mark Gorton offered to license music from the top four record companies for Spoon, Limewire's unknown legal music service. The deal fell through after Gorton's lawyers insisted that the music labels allow Limewire to continue to operate for a year so users could be moved over to Spoon.

Limewire as a company still exist but they no longer operate as a file-sharing service. What the New York based company will do in the future is unclear.