LimeWire Shuts Down After Losing Court Battle With The RIAA

[matt$]

Only pay for games, and films in the cinema but barely buy dvds or cds but still theres thousands of people that do so there still making more money then the average guy who has to work much harder for his money.

[beth]

I only pay for movies and games. Music isnt that good that i'd pay £8-£9 for about 9 songs which in all seriousness id only like 1 for half a week.

WinMX was the ultimate music download client back in the day.

winmx ohmydaysss, ahaha best program ever. was so basic LOL.

[Apple]

Limewire brings back memories of searching it all night trying to find the latest songs when I was like 12. But in reality, most of the songs were crap quality and it was full of viruses. I moved onto the likes of Utorrent about 2 years ago.

[Judas]

Only pay for games, and films in the cinema but barely buy dvds or cds but still theres thousands of people that do so there still making more money then the average guy who has to work much harder for his money.

you think musicians work harder than "the average guy"? so constantly flying around the world with jet lag and playing shows every night whilst writing and recording music on the road is harder than sitting behind a desk in an office? i dont think thats fair.

Studios and recording companies were worried tapes and VHS were going to see the death of them, the same went for CDs and now they're worried about the internet.

how is that?

[GoldenMerc]

I remember searching for Habbo on it coming up with DJ Mint and Mizki ahaaa

[Recursion]

you think musicians work harder than "the average guy"? so constantly flying around the world with jet lag and playing shows every night whilst writing and recording music on the road is harder than sitting behind a desk in an office? i dont think thats fair.



how is that?

It's a known fact, you should read up on it.

[Plean]

Its been shut down

[Luke]

Its been shut down

that was the idea..

[peteyt]

Thought I'd add my stuff in.

Firstly I occasionaly download stuff to see if i like it - but i seem to be one of the few people who gets cds - when people have asked me they've often went what you get cds still?

I don't mind people trying out - but it does annoy me when people claim they are a fan, just like my dad, of many bands, yet own not one legal cd by them - if you do like them that much you should show it, I mean if everyone decided to do the same they would make hardly anything.

When using LimeWire i never found much of a problem - the so called viruses on LimeWire where pretty easy to spot and if you didn't download software most of the time you where fine. Most people who got viruses just downloaded whatever they could find without really checking.

LimeWire may have closed but someone else will come

[GommeInc]

Surely the issue with "they don't get much money through sales" is that record labels and companies are simply taking too much money from each song and album? It's difficult with digital music, because it doesn't have any physical worth, therefore little worth at all because people only find something worth while when it exists in reality, not some virtual picture on a screen. Digitial music has made it easy to obtain music, the only reason album sales have plumetted is because the songs are so easy to obtain, and it's not just through illegal downloads, people give out their CDs to let their friends borrow them. It's a difficult subject, because some people don't want plastic clutter around if they only want music, yet people don't want to buy something that doesn't physically exist and holds little value, so illegal downloads exist. It'll never be solved.