In an unprecedented step, LimeWire’s owner has hit back at the RIAA by countersuing it for trying to control how music files are distributed.
The P2P company alleges that the recording industry’s US trade body’s objective is “to destroy any online music distribution service they did not own or control, or force such services to do business with them on exclusive and/or other anticompetitive terms so as to limit and ultimately control the distribution and pricing of digital music, all to the detriment of consumers”.
It goes on to call the RIAA’s suit part of a “modern conspiracy to destroy all innovations that content owners cannot control and that disrupts their historical business models”.
LimeWire’s developer has defended the company’s position by saying that the software will be used as much more than a music file sharing tool in the future; it will also distribute news stories, research papers, and more, all via the Gnutella P2P network.
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A great deal of copyrighted material is available on file sharing networks.
Please be aware that many files are not legal to share or download. Please do not download LimeWire software if you intend to use it for illegal purposes.
LimeWireis the world’s fastest P2P file-sharing application, letting users share and search for all types of computer files, including movies, pictures, games, and text documents. The applications other features include dynamic querying, the ability to preview files while downloading, advanced techniques for locating rare files, and an extremely intuitive user interface. LimeWirefeatures personalized spam blocker to get rid of junk results. Automatic updates will keep you sharing faster than ever with the latest version. You can search for Creative Commons and Weedshare licensed files, and publish your own creative works with Creative Commons licensing. LimeWire continues its guarantee of no adware or spyware.
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LimeWire 4.12.6is released! LimeWire 4.12.6is a major improvement to LimeWire, including many new and improved features to keep LimeWire safe, secure, and speedy. This release contains support for ’secure results’, which will prevent spammers from sending search results that could open a browser window. LimeWire 4.12.6also features the ability to enable content filtering. The core of LimeWire has been completely rewritten to use less memory, resources, and be overall nicer on your computer.
There’s a ton of minor improvements, many of which have been requested for years. Changes like:
Sorting the bitrate correctly.
A prettier LimeWire icon when using alt-tab.
Easier ways for people to change LimeWire’s language.
LimeWire PRO will always show a PRO splash, regardless of the theme.
A prettier setup wizard.
LimeWire respects the OSX dock & Windows taskbar when sizing itself.
Not displaying the ‘No Internet Connection’ dialog multiple times.
The ability to append (#) and use that as a default when downloading (contributed by MaTZ!).
A ‘Search More’ feature to get more results without erasing the current ones (contributed by Philip Schalm!).
Automatic configuration of the Windows firewall.
For the complete list of changes since 4.10.9, see LimeWire’s feature history page.
LimeWire also now ships with translations in over 20 languages, thanks to the hard work of everyone who has contributed a translation! LimeWire is translated into Bosnian, Danish, German, Spanish, Estonian, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Portugeuse (Standard), Portugeuse (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Albanian, Turkish, Chinese (Traditional), Greek, Finish, Indonesian, and Norwegian! You can help translate LimeWire to see LimeWire in your language.
And this isn’t it… Starting in the next beta series,LimeWirewill feature BitTorrent integration and a custom DHT. Keep a look out for what’s next!
Several record companies have sued a Richland woman for allegedly violating federal copyrights by downloading or uploading music via the Internet.
The suit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Richland by the Recording Industry Association of America on behalf of Warner Bros. Records Inc., Sony BMG Music, Virgin Records and several other major recording labels against Merri Board.
Board, who has not seen the lawsuit, was blindsided by the news.
“It’s been over two years since I heard anything about this,” she said.
A Laramie man was sentenced Tuesday in Albany County District Court to three to 10 years in the Wyoming State Penitentiary on each of two counts of child pornography. The sentences are to run concurrently.
Tucker James Perry, 26, of 800 S. Ninth, was placed on 10 years of supervised probation for possessing child pornography, and his prison sentences were suspended. At the time of his arrest, Perry was a student at the University of Wyoming. Perry admitted to searching for and possessing child pornography on or around Dec. 15, 2005. He was charged with three counts of manufacturing, generating, creating, receiving, distributing, reproducing or delivering child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography. He was sentenced on the third and fourth counts.
On Dec. 22, 2005, the Division of Criminal Investigations obtained a warrant to search Perry’s home due to probable cause that a computer at the residence was involved in the distribution of child pornography. At the time, Perry lived with one roommate, who had been out of town for several days. Perry admitted to the DCI agents that he had used Limewire software to download pornography, and he admitted to using search terms that are known to return results containing child pornography. Perry also admitted to being interested in pornography depicting persons under the age of 18.
The RIAA continues to fire flaming subpoenas against suspected file-swappers across the country, many of whom lack the resources with which to defend themselves. Those without cash find themselves hard-pressed to even begin defending against a federal lawsuit of the kind that the RIAA usually files, and few legal firms are willing to help.
Ray Beckerman is one of the few lawyers who has taken a stand against the RIAA, and he recently took part in a conference call organized by Defective by Design, an anti-DRM coalition. Beckerman gave a broad overview of the RIAA’s tactics; not surprisingly, he was opposed to them on the grounds that the group’s investigations turn out very little actual evidence.
“They say the defendant downloaded, distributed and/or made available for distribution certain song files. But they have no evidence of any downloading, they have no evidence of any distributing, and at most they can say that someone who might somehow be associated with the IP address might have made some files available. But they certainly don’t know what the defendant did. All they know that the defendant did was to write out a check for internet access.”
Despite these key weaknesses, the RIAA uses its resources to file suit against individuals and then presses them to settle out of court for cash—usually $3750 or $4250.
According to a couple of reports circulating the Internet the last couple of days, and bolstered by recent RIAA lawsuit losses, the best way to defend yourself against a lawsuit from the RIAA is to open up your WiFi network.
From CD Freaks:
Earlier this month, the inability to prove who actually did the file sharing caused the RIAA to drop a case in Oklahoma and now it looks like the same defense has worked in a California case as well. In both cases, though, as soon as the RIAA realized the person was using this defense, they dropped the case, rather than lose it and set a precedent showing they really don’t have the unequivocal evidence they claim they do.
Of course, I don’t know many people who are too keen on sharing their Internet connection with all their neighbors, but this is an interesting development in the ongoing RIAA lawsuits that sheds even more negative light on the RIAA.
The record industry sued four St. Louis-area residents, two other Missourians and people in nine other states this week, claiming they illegally downloaded copyrighted music.
In all, the Recording Industry Association of America has sued 18,200 individuals over songs the industry says have been illegally downloaded or made available for uploading by others online, spokeswoman Amanda Hunter said Thursday.
In Missouri, the RIAA has filed 119 cases and settled 63, she said. Some have been settled for thousands of dollars, according to court records, but Hunter said she did not have total figures on Thursday and could not access current figures for Illinois lawsuits.
Warner Bros. Records Sony BMG and Virgin Records, have filed a lawsuit against LimeWire. The RIAA said in a statement that they had tried numerous times to engage LimeWire but the site owners have “shown insufficient interest in developing a legal business model”.
The recording industry is asking for compensatory and punitive damages, such as $150,000 for every song distributed without permission. LimeWire is “devoted essentially to the Internet piracy of plaintiffs’ sound recordings,” the record companies charge in their suit. “The scope of infringement caused by defendants is staggering.”
The virus, MSH/Cibyz, which is based on Windows PowerShell, was released by members of the RRLF virus group, according to an advisory from McAfee.
PowerShell is a command line shell and scripting language that runs on Microsoft XP, Windows Server 2003, Vista and Longhorn operating systems.
The malware is a low risk to home and corporate users, according to a McAfee advisory. However, it can create a copy of itself in the Windows system directory and then modifies registry keys so users cannot view hidden files and extensions.
About 1.8 million people in Japan are active users of file-sharing software, a sharp increase from a year ago, according to a survey by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ), TV broadcasters and other industry groups.
The figure is equal to about 3.5 percent of all Internet users and represents a jump from last year’s survey, which put the number at about 1.3 million, or about 2.7 percent of Internet users. The survey was conducted online in mid-June and gathered 18,596 responses.
The average number of downloads per user per year was 194 files, of which about 87 were music, 79 were movies, 11 were images, nine were software applications and eight were documents.
The most popular file-sharing application being used was Winny, according to the survey. WinMX was ranked second and Limewire third. BitTorrent clients, popular in the West, were fifth on the list, with only 6 percent of people using it as their main application.
Forty songs are being downloaded illegally for every legal music download, according to estimates produced on Thursday as the record industry scored one of its biggest victories against online piracy.
Some 20bn songs were downloaded illegally last year, compared with a legal digital market of about 500m tracks, the IFPI, the international music industry lobby group, said.
The estimate was disclosed as the IFPI and its US counterpart, the RIAA, confirmed a settlement with Sharman Networks, which distributes the Kazaa peer-to-peer software applications that are thought to account for up to 15 per cent of music file-sharing.
Under the terms of the deal, Sharman will pay Universal Music, Sony BMG, EMI and Warner Music more than $100m (€79m, £54m), the biggest settlement fine by far in any music piracy lawsuit. The music companies will also receive 20 per cent of future income from Kazaa after it agreed to adapt to a legal model.
“Kazaa was an international engine of copyright theft which damaged the whole music sector,” said John Kennedy, the chairman and chief executive of IFPI. “This brings the biggest piracy brand in the world into a legal model.”
THE music industry hailed a victory in the battle against illegal downloading yesterday after forcing one of the world’s most prominent file-sharing sites to pay $100 million in damages and become a legal business.Kazaa, a longstanding source of illicit music and film downloads, enjoyed 4.2 million simultaneous users worldwide. The “peer-to-peer” network acted as a free jukebox, making files accessible to any computer user. In 2003 Kazaa became the most downloaded software with 239 million.
Sharman Networks, which is based in Australia and is the owner of Kazaa, agreed yesterday to pay the world’s four leading music companies — Universal, SonyBMG, EMI and Warner Music — more than $100 million (£54 million) in compensation for lost sales.
Kazaa had been under mounting pressure after a series of landmark court rulings, instigated by the music and film industries. Australia’s Federal Court found Sharman Networks guilty of encouraging its users to swap songs illegally, breaching copyright law. In June last year the US Supreme Court ruled that file-sharing companies could be held accountable for promoting copyright theft by users of their services.
A man was arrested Monday on suspicion of stealing about 500,000 yen from a postal savings account using LimeWire file-sharing software, police said.
According to the Nagano prefectural police, this is the first known case of the software being used to gain illegal access to an Internet banking system.
Arrested was Mitsugu Tominaga, 34, of Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, who is on trial on charges of violating the Antiunauthorized Access Law.
Junichi Iwai, 33, of Hatogaya in the prefecture, who had been indicted on the same charge in an earlier case, was sent to the prosecutors for the same charge.
In February, the two men were arrested on suspicion of withdrawing 950,000 yen by illegally accessing an Internet banking account at Hachijuni Bank in Nagano.
According to the police, Tominaga and Iwai obtained the password for a Japan Post postal savings Internet account and transferred 500,000 yen from the account of a Ishikawa Prefecture man to Iwai’s account.
About 1.8 million people in Japan are active users of file-sharing software, a sharp increase from a year ago, according to a survey by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ), TV broadcasters and other industry groups.
The figure is equal to about 3.5 percent of all Internet users and represents a big jump from last year’s survey, which put the number at about 1.3 million, or about 2.7 percent of Internet users. The survey was conducted online in mid-June and gathered 18,596 responses.
The average number of downloads per user per year was 194 files, of which about 87 were music, 79 were movies, 11 were images, nine were software applications and eight were documents.
The most popular file-sharing application being used was Winny, according to the survey. WinMX was ranked second and Limewire third. BitTorrent clients, popular in the West, were fifth on the list, with only 6 percent of people using it as their main application.
As record companies this week filed lawsuits against alleged illegal downloaders, one of whom is from Framingham, music lovers and musicians unloaded on downloading.
“I think people make a big deal about it,” said 18-year-old Amanda Rattliffe, of Framingham, who occasionally downloads music from Limewire. “I would actually rather pay for music than download, I only download when I can’t find the song I want in the store.”
This week, a suit was filed by the Recording Industry Association of America on behalf of record companies such as Arista, Sony and Capitol. The lawsuit accused 76 people nationwide, including 23-year-old Omri Duek, of Framingham.
The suit accuses Duek of illegally distributing copyrighted music on the Internet, through such programs as Limewire.
Rattliffe said she believes it’s not wrong to download songs occasionally, as long as people don’t grab an entire album. She said she doesn’t believe one song hurts musicians.
“I would think, when people hear a song they like on the radio, they’d rather download it than buy the CD,” said 24-year-old Justin White, of Framingham. “You don’t see people carrying portable CD players anymore, everyone has iPods.”
Despite the cost, White said he buys CDs, because he likes to support musicians and prefers the CD over the MP3.
A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for many purposes. Sharing content files (see file sharing) containing audio, video, data or anything in digital format is very common, and realtime data, such as telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.A pure peer-to-peer network does not have the notion of clients or servers, but only equal peer nodes that simultaneously function as both "clients" and "servers" to the other nodes on the network. This model of network arrangement differs from the client-server model where communication is usually to and from a central server. A typical example for a non peer-to-peer file transfer is an FTP server where the client and server programs are quite distinct, and the clients initiate the download.
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