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LimeWire Makes It Official: It's All Over

It took a day, but LimeWire has responded to my request for comment on its imminent shutdown: It acknowledges that it’s shutting down, imminently. Via email: “Given our current situation, plans to bring our separate, legal music service to market have been canceled. The beginning of 2011 will mark the closing of LimeWire’s New York office and cessation of business by LimeWire. We attracted some of the top talent from the technology community over the years to build our new music service. We’ll be helping our team members commence their job search over the next few months.”


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  • http://www.nvpr.com Hal Bringman

    Meanwhile, a P2P developer I know, who shall remain nameless, told me that their traffic has surged more than 300% since LimeWire’s demise. Good thing they crushed LimeWire’s legal efforts too, that’ll show ‘em.

  • http://www.youtube.com/iamtrinyd Triny D

    Tough situation all the way around. Perhaps the era of the selling of records will be just an aberration in the history of music

  • http://twitter.com/dhernandez5622 Daniel Hernandez

    Record companies are too short-sided. With iTunes ready to take overall CD sales, they should really be looking for friends. The same goes with the movie industry! They really have a hard time keeping up with the times.

  • Anonymous

    Who’s next in line ARES?

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