Limewire is back in new shape and looks
on November 19th, 2010 2 So, here is someone who we had been missing in action for quite some time. After less than a month’s “permanent shut down,” LimeWire has been revived by an anonymous dev team–and it’s better and more powerful than before.
The new LimeWire, known as LimeWire Pirate Edition (LPE) is now circulating on download sites such as BitTorrent. Based on the LimeWire 5.6 beta (released earlier this year, before LimeWire’s permanent shut-down), LPE has even been improved by its secret Frankensteins–the Ask toolbar has been unbundled, all dependencies on LimeWire LLC’s servers have been removed, all remote settings have been disabled, and all the features of LimeWire Pro have been activated for free. According to the site TorrentFreak, a “secret dev team” stayed loyal to the Gnutella-based file-sharing client, even after its creators closed their doors indefinitely, thanks to copyright law.
LimeWire was officially shut down on October 26, after a federal judge found it guilty of assisting users in committing copyright infringement on a “massive scale.” The shut-down was the culmination of a four-year suit against the company, brought by the RIAA on behalf of eight major music publishers. Federal Judge Kimba Wood found the company, LimeWire LLC, and its founder, Mark Gordon, liable for copyright infringement. The case resumes in January 2011, when damages–expected to total at least $1 billion–will be assessed. LimeWire Pirate Edition is currently only available for Windows users.
Credit: www.pcworld.com
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