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2. LimeWire - Wikipedia

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   LimeWire. LimeWire was a free peer-to-peer file sharing client for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Solaris. [1] Created by Mark Gorton [2][3][4] in 2000, it was most prominently a tool used for the download and distribution of pirated materials, particularly pirated music. [5] In 2007, LimeWire was estimated to be installed on over one-third of all ...

3. Peer-to-peer file sharing - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. Peer-to-peer file sharing is the distribution and sharing of digital media using peer-to-peer (P2P) networking technology. P2P file sharing allows users to access media files such as books, music, movies, and games using a P2P software program that searches for other connected computers on a P2P network to locate the desired content ...

4. Music piracy - Wikipedia

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   Napster became hugely popular because it made it so easy to share and download music files. However, the heavy metal band Metallica sued the company for copyright infringement. [11] This led to other artists following suit and shutting down Napster's service. Likewise, Limewire was a free peer-to-peer file sharing software similar to that of ...

5. Gnutella - Wikipedia

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   This allowed the network to grow in popularity. In late 2001, the Gnutella client LimeWire Basic became free and open source. In February 2002, Morpheus, a commercial file sharing group, abandoned its FastTrack-based peer-to-peer software and released a new client based on the free and open source Gnutella client Gnucleus.

6. Trade group efforts against file sharing - Wikipedia

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   The RIAA has apparently in the past been revealed to and may have admitted to the practice of spoofing, deliberately flooding P2P networks with "junk music". [23] [24] A further reference to such activity was discovered when computer software and source code along with emails were stolen from US Company "Media Defender"; [25] their software was designed to facilitate "interdiction" on all the ...

7. Judge Makes Music Pirate LimeWire Walk the Plank - AOL

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   LimeWire provides software that allows users to share music -- most of it copyrighted -- with each other and that profits from ads it runs on its site. If this sounds familiar -- and illegal -- it ...