Looks like the parasites are up to their old tricks again with the "lets bankrupt you by starting a legal case we can afford and you cant", method
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1258In a surprise move, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has sued Lime Group, LLC., LimeWire, LLC, Mark Gorton (CEO), and Greg Bildson (CTO). Lime Group is the umbrella company which the LimeWire development firm belongs to.
LimeWire's continued operation was in stark contrast to other P2P developers such as BearShare, eDonkey, and WinMX, who all ceased operations following the order.
LimeWire's more notable contributions since September was a security upgrade, and a proposed overhaul of the protocol to include DHT and BitTorrent support.
These advancements aroused curiosity as it appeared a serious protocol revision, especially one that greatly enhanced the functionality and efficiency of the user experience, would be in conflict with the RIAA's demands. However LimeWire's work on an expected copyright filter mitigated the immediate expectation that LimeWire would become the next RIAA statistic.
As month's passed, the filter never came to fruition and advances kept coming. In fact, according to LimeWire's latest blog entries, two significant developments are in the work. With negotiations stale and the RIAA impatient, the day of reckoning appears to have come.
Many believed, as did LimeWire, that their open source nature would preserve their existence - at least for some time to come. LimeWire's open source nature may not save the company from the RIAA's onslaught, but it may save the Gnutella network. LimeWire's newest features and talent comes from the open source world; even if Lime Group vanishes tomorrow, development won't.
I think a lesson need to be learned by the RIAA, its a simple one, you can hit the cash raking sites all you want but on the ground floor there's nothing you can do to stop folks using the client, If they RIAA go ahead I suggest those in charge of Frostwire make more hurdles for the RIAA to jump through including IP obscuring and heavy encryption, folks are allowed after all to do what they want with their own material and pretending folks only share copyrighted material is just hogwash, no network will fall while the community behind it wishes to keep it going.
The RIAA's members may use illegal business practices in the real world but I think they are biting off more than they can chew in thinking they can close down an open src project that will splinter into a thousand different clients, you cannot and will not hold a monopoly on the internet over how people share their files, to believe otherwise is a dream.
I hope I speak for us all here in wishing Limewire good luck, the media Mafia's attempts to monopolise any file sharing for their own selfish ends are not going unnoticed and will be opposed.
