![]() ![]() After Napster, received a court-ordered injunction for copyright infringement in February 2001, LimeWire’s marketing team developed a plan to quickly acquire all of Napster’s previous users. The court observed that LimeWire had actively “induced” its users to infringe its copyrighted material. ![]() In turn, the RIAA made its case by selecting 1,800 files at random from the LimeWire database, and finding that 93% of them were copyright protected, i.e. Limewire argued that granting its users access to copyrighted files was not technically the same thing as infringing copyrights, and declared that it was not responsible for the actions of others. Thirteen separate record companies – all represented by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) – sued for mass copyright infringement. On October 26th 2010, the rogue P2P service LimeWire was shutdown. ![]()
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