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2. LimeWire - Wikipedia

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   GPL-2.0-or-later. 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 ...

3. Arista Records LLC v. Lime Group LLC - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. FrostWire - Wikipedia

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   FrostWire is a free and open-source BitTorrent client first released in September 2004, as a fork of LimeWire. It was initially very similar to LimeWire in appearance and functionality, but over time developers added more features, including support for the BitTorrent protocol. In version 5, support for the Gnutella network was dropped entirely ...

5. Judge Makes Music Pirate LimeWire Walk the Plank - AOL

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   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 ...

6. Music piracy - Wikipedia

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   Napster became hugely popular because it made it so easy to share and download music files. However, the heavy metal band Metallica sued the company for copyright infringement. This led to other artists following suit and shutting down Napster's service. Likewise, Limewire was a free peer-to-peer file sharing software similar to that of Napster ...

7. Kazaa - Wikipedia

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   e. Kazaa Media Desktop ( / kəˈzɑː / ka-ZAH ). [1] (once stylized as " KaZaA ", but later usually written " Kazaa ") was a peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol licensed by Joltid Ltd. and operated as Kazaa by Sharman Networks. Kazaa was subsequently under license as a legal music subscription service by Atrinsic ...