Volume X

Issue : 10: February 9, 2012

• Intrusion Upon Seclusion - Ontario's Newest Tort Recognizes Invasion of Privacy
• Even After Shutting Down, LimeWire Can't Catch a Break [Piracy]
• U.S. Supreme Court Surveillance Decision Limited to Physical Surveillance Methods
• U.S. Businessman Jailed for Trade Secret Theft
• NDP Requests Privacy Act Investigation into TV Citizenship Ceremony
• Prisons Sentences Upheld for The Pirate Bay Founders

Home > Volume X > Issue 10: February 9, 2012 > Even After Shutting Down, LimeWire Can't Catch a Break [Piracy]

Even After Shutting Down, LimeWire Can't Catch a Break [Piracy]

After shutting down last October, LimeWire settled with Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for $105 Million to put an end to five years of heated litigation.  The once-popular, now dead file-sharing company is again being sued, this time by six Hollywood studios: Twentieth Century Fox, Viacom, Comedy Partners, Disney, Paramount Pictures, and Warner Brothers that claim massive infringements of such works as Harry Potter, South Park, Desperate Housewives, and more.  

The Plaintiffs cited a federal judge's May 2010 summary judgment decision in the music case, which determined that LimeWire “intentionally encouraged direct infringement” by LimeWire users and that the LimeWire software was used “overwhelmingly for infringement.”

"The scope of copyright infringement that occurred through LimeWire was staggering," the complaints say. "Millions of users copied billions of files using LimeWire, and each time a user copied a file, that user obtained a permanent copy of copyrighted work without paying a penny to its owner."

To read more:
http://bit.ly/wiNFBT

A copy of the order for injunction is found at the following: 
http://download.limewire.com/injunction/Injunction.pdf