Limewire to shutdown core services, for now

By on Oct 26, 2010 at 9:27 PM
Software October 26, 2010

It truly is the end of an era. AllThingsD is reporting that P2P file sharing service Limewire will shutdown “searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality” as the result of a court ruling last year that favored the recording industry. A Limewire spokesperson had this to say:

While this is not our ideal path, we hope to work with the music industry in moving forward.  We look forward to embracing necessary changes and collaborating with the entire music industry in the future.

If you have a drink in your hand, pour a little out for your homeboy Limewire… and go find yourself a good BitTorrent client.

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  • Derrick

    I’ve never personally used LimeWire, but I have used Pirate Bay, as well as a perfectly crafted Google search combined with a rapidshare account to find exxxxxxactly what I’m looking for.

    As an IT professional one thing I have noticed is that every non-IT person that says “can you look at my computer for me, I think I have a virus” almost always has LimeWire installed.

    I need to try to get a job with the RIAA, they seems to be on a roll lately. At least they seem to be here to stay.

  • joejoe

    ahh limewire i use to use this soo much that sucks that it wont be around :( i still use it once in a while for remixes and stuff

  • joejoe

    will we still be able to get on limewire and listen to the music we have on it already?

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