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Limewire Shuts Down Service

Published on October 27, 2010 By ccorbet

The popular peer2peer file sharing service, Limewire, was ordered yesterday to shut down, reports ComputerWorld. “In a 17-page injunction (PDF document) issued on Tuesday, Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered LimeWire to cease the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and file distribution functionality of LimeWire’s [...]

FTC Drops Limewire Investigation

Published on August 27, 2010 By ccorbet

Some rare good news for Limewire… The FTC, who has been investigating the company on grounds of copyright infringement, has dropped the investigation due to some software enhancements that Limewire has made.  These enhancements provide safeguards to help protect users from inadvertently sharing sensitive information. It seems odd that it is the software company’s responsibility [...]