Limewire Gets Sued Man - file sharing to be destroyed

LimeWire was sued by the RIAA in federal court on Friday, accusing the company LimeGroup, which runs LimeWire, of helping illegal music downloads by users all across America. The total suit is worth approximately 150,000 dollars, but LimeWire is confident that they are not at fault. Other file sharing services, such as the torrent indexer Isohunt, located at www.isohunt.com, have experienced similar suits, but the fact that these companies are based in foreign countries protects them from the copyright legal action that the RIAA and MPAA is doing against these companies.

Many have said that LimeWire had its chance to come clean go legal. It was one of the several P2P services that received a letter last September threatening legal action if it didn't shut down or change to a licensed business model. LimeWire, instead, has totally ignored the letter, allowing illegal file downloading to continue. Many other services, including BearShare and WinMX, exited the business, and several lost suits against them and were shut down by the MPAA and RIAA. Many of the recent lawsuits pursued by the RIAA, such as the lawsuit against an elderly woman accusing her of downloading music illegally (Even though she didn't even have an Internet connection, LOL), I applaud their motivation to take down many of these P2P services that continue to exist and cheat many out of download music legally. They are infringing on the copyrights of these singers and artists that spend so much money and time creating good music for Americans.

I believe the music and movie industry is greedy and corrupt, but respecting copyrights of others is the main factor in why many people don't file share. How would you like it if someone stole your life's work? But nonetheless, illegal file sharing continues, despite action by the MPAA and RIAA.

Isohunt, the result of a recent merger between itself and torrentspy, is probably going to win their suit, considering their foreign association and policy of "provide the list, we'll take it down" has made the MPAA helpless against them. However, isohunt-intitiated filtering was not done by Isohunt, because they claim that it should not be their resposnbility to filter the content, but they would comply with requests for content removal.

Americans are the most greedy people in the world. They see a chance to get free cash they dont care who it hurts or ruins they just want the money. And i'm an American and i'm saying this.

What I don't understand is, if these sites aren't legel, then why are they even there? Shouldn't they be shut down instead of taking the risk of people getting sued over downloading the music on Their site? It makes no sense. If I can freely go to Limewire and download music, why should I be punished for it? They let me do it. They were there. Nobody said to them "your putting this here illigally for people to download from and must stop". And even if they did, why haven't they stopped? I have no clue as to which sites are legel and which sites aren't. I wouldn't even know how to tell. They are there, so as far as I'm concerned, it must be ok, or they would have been shut down by now.

This is america, a sue-happy nation united by money.

I think that artists should be glad to know that they have so much fans that their songs are being shared throughout the internet. Besides there are other ways they get their money like making commercials and all the other miscellanous things they do. They don't single handedly rely on just the albums they sell.