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LimeWire. LimeWire was a free peer-to-peer file sharing client for Windows, macOS, Linux and Solaris. [ 1] Created by Mark Gorton [ 2][ 3][ 4] in 2000, it was most prominently a tool used for the download and distribution of pirated materials, particularly pirated music. [ 5] In 2007, LimeWire was estimated to be installed on over one-third of ...
v. t. e. Arista Records LLC v. Lime Group LLC, 715 F. Supp. 2d 481 (S.D.N.Y. 2010), is a United States district court case in which the Southern District of New York held that Lime Group LLC, the defendant, induced copyright infringement with its peer-to-peer file sharing software, LimeWire. The court issued a permanent injunction to shut it ...
October 12 – RIAA files a lawsuit against Usenet .com, accusing it of being an illicit peer-to-peer file sharing site. [ 97][ 98] October 23 – OiNK's Pink Palace BitTorrent Tracker is raided and shut down by a joint effort between Dutch and British police. [ 99] October 24 – The civil-court jury trial for Capitol v.
LimeWire provides software that allows users to share music -- most of it copyrighted -- with each other and that profits from ads it runs on its site. If this sounds familiar -- and illegal -- it ...
Online piracy or software piracy is the practice of downloading and distributing copyrighted works digitally without permission, such as music or software. [1] [2] The principle behind piracy has predated the creation of the Internet. [not verified in body] Despite its explicit illegality in many developed countries, online piracy is still ...
Music piracy. Music piracy is the copying and distributing of recordings of a piece of music for which the rights owners (composer, recording artist, or copyright -holding record company) did not give consent. In the contemporary legal environment, it is a form of copyright infringement, which may be either a civil wrong or a crime depending on ...
v. t. e. File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books. Common methods of storage, transmission and dispersion include removable media, centralized servers on computer networks, Internet-based hyperlinked documents ...
Operation Payback. Operation Payback was a coordinated, [1] decentralized [2] group of attacks on high-profile [3] opponents of Internet piracy by Internet activists using the "Anonymous" moniker. Operation Payback started as retaliation to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on torrent sites; piracy proponents then decided to launch ...