| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.11.2025 | This Week In Techdirt History: November 9th – 15th | Five Years Ago
This week in 2020, we looked at election polls as an example of the challenges involved in defining and handling misinformation. We noted how Trumpland seemed to have entirely forgotten about its own manufactured TikTok hyste... |
| 26.06.2025 | We Have All Become Too Comfortable With Corruption | For years, we’ve written about the concept of “soft corruption,” which is the idea that there are certain actions that may not mean the full definition of corrupt practices in the legal sense, but are so obviously corrupt that they make peo... |
| 23.06.2025 | The Shifting Sands of Media Power: News Corp's Future and the Echoes of History | In the world of media, change is the only constant. News Corp, a titan in the industry, has just extended the contract of its CEO, Robert Thomson, through June 2030. This decision is more than a mere corporate maneuver; it’s a reflection of... |
| 21.06.2025 | This Week In Techdirt History: June 15th – 21st | Five Years Ago
This week in 2020, the killing of George Floyd and subsequent protests were having an impact, with one court citing the incident in denying immunity to officers in another case, more schools moving to end contracts with cops,... |
| 09.03.2024 | Бесплатные аналоги Midjourney для генерации изображений | Если вам нужен бесплатный аналог Midjourney для генерации изображений, можем порекомендовать несколько интересных решений. Вот небольшая подборка, которая поможет вам создать красивые и оригинальные фотографии:
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| 29.09.2023 | LimeWire: Content Creation and Monetization with AI | Home - Generative Art with AI - LimeWire: Content Creation and Monetization with AI
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| 19.09.2023 | After relaunching as a studio for creators, LimeWire acquires BlueWillow, a Midjourney competitor | In the Wild West of generative AI, a new, unlikely cowboy is riding into town. LimeWire — once infamous for music piracy and incurring the wrath of the music industry before shutting down — last year pivoted under new owners into the world ... |
| 06.07.2022 | LimeWire Resurfaces Over a Decade After Shutting Down as a Music-Based NFT Curator | Ryan Epps, Tech Times 06 July 2022, 05:07 pm
For the many who may be wondering what happened to LimeWire, its evolution into an NFT music marketplace may be the last thing on their mind. Following its resurgence in March, when Austrian entr... |
| 16.03.2022 | LimeWire Founder “Not Thrilled” That ‘Strangers’ Exploit the Brand for NFT Marketplace | In a world that’s dominated by viral social media posts and catchy headlines, branding is everything.
Controversial statements and recognizable names are a great way to gain visibility. This attention can then be monetized. LimeWire Comebac... |
| 09.03.2022 | LimeWire is coming back as an NFT marketplace a decade after shutting down following battle with music industry group | LimeWire is resurrecting as an NFT marketplace after being shut down years ago as a peer-to-peer file-sharing platform.
The NFT operations will go live in May with a waitlist now open.
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LimeWire is preparing to relaunch as a ma... |
| 14.08.2020 | LimeWire Developer Creates MuWire, an Anonymous File-Sharing Application | When a US federal court ordered LimeWire to shut down ten years ago, it marked the end of an era.
Initially, the site informed users about the court order and urged people to remove the software from their computers.
“If you have downloaded... |
| 01.03.2012 | Defunct LimeWire Buries The Copyright Hatchet With Music Agency Merlin, Settles For $15M? | Another hefty payout for the now-defunct file-sharing P2P service LimeWire, and, perhaps more importantly, another nail in the coffin for P2p services: Merlin, a rights agency representing independent labels, says that it has reached an out... |
| 02.12.2010 | LimeWire Closes Online Store, Ends Plans for Legal Music Subscription Service | It appears as though a recent court decision forcing LimeWire to halt its P2P services is having a ripple effect to other parts of the company, as All Things Digital reports the site is closing its online music store at the end of the year ... |
| 02.12.2010 | LimeWire may have lost zest for legal music downloads, too | reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating
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| 27.10.2010 | LimeWire Ordered To Shut Down | LimeWire, we hardly knew ye. A New York court has ordered the company to turn off the software’s ability to search, upload, and download, which pretty much means that it’s dead. I guess this would have affected me greatly, I don’t know, in ... |
| 26.10.2010 | After Ten Years, LimeWire Capitulates To The Music Industry | The music industry lawyers just put another notch on their wall. After ten years of existence, peer-to-peer music sharing service LimeWire is joining Napster, Kazaa, and all the rest. It will abide by a court-ordered injunction today and be... |
| 10.02.2010 | Shop Talk: West Philly’s OpenHatch is “a business card for geeks” | Update: corrected college names, edited Atlanta information.
OpenHatch, like many companies, was one born of frustration.
The company calls itself a “business card for geeks,” a service that allows open-source programmers to automatically i... |
| 11.09.2009 | Facebook Bans LimeWire’s Share Feature | LimeWire is by far the most used filesharing application, with a market share of approximately 35%. The client recently updated its BitTorrent support and added the option to share files with friends on Facebook, a feature that thousands of... |
| 04.07.2009 | Limewire Gets More Serious About BitTorrent | In 2008 LimeWire was the most installed P2P application with an impressive market-share of 37%, compared to 14% for runner-up uTorrent. Although Limewire is primarily a Gnutella-based client it also supports BitTorrent downloads.
Although w... |
| 23.04.2009 | Government shakedown for music-sharing service LimeWire? | Congress is winding up to give LimeWire hell again. The peer-to-peer file-sharing service apparently still poses a risk to users who store personal information on their computers, according to the House Committee on Government Reform.
As a ... |
| 07.11.2008 | Old Dog, New Tricks: LimeWire Adds Social Features | LimeWire – an eight-year old P2P service that manages to survive despite the best efforts of the RIAA – isn’t resting on its laurels. In fact, despite the turmoil in which they find themselves embroiled, the company continues to make effort... |
| 27.08.2008 | LimeWire Music Store Adds 1.2 Million Tracks | LimeWire is by far the most used filesharing application, with a market share of approximately 35%. Their popularity is declining worldwide – mostly due to the BitTorrent boom – but roughly 18% of all PCs worldwide still has the application... |
| 26.04.2008 | Filesharing Report Shows Explosive Growth for uTorrent | The data presented here are based on a sample of over a million PCs (Windows only), and were gathered by PC Pitstop.
A few months we already reported that uTorrent overtook Azureus’ position as the most installed BitTorrent application, and... |
| 19.03.2008 | Limewire music store now open in beta | Limewire, formerly a popular Gnutella-based P2P file-sharing service, has opened the beta of its DRM-free download store.
Though the store was announced in August of last year, Limewire's DRM-free download shop has only now opened in public... |
| 17.03.2008 | LimeWire Opens Music Store, Plans to Integrate with P2P: Have They Lost Their Minds? | LimeWire has just opened their online music store in beta form at store.limewire.com. The store which is reported to currently have a catalog of 500,000 tunes, features DRM-free MP3s encoded at 256 Kbps. Although the store is currently a st... |
| 17.03.2008 | LimeWire Store Opens for Business | A message on the LimeWire Store frontpage reads: “Welcome to the LimeWire Store: We’re so new, we’re beta!”
A little late, but open for business today, the LimeWire Store Beta is here offering a web browser-based interface for downloading m... |
| 09.01.2008 | Could P2P Networks Enable a Google Killer? | Word association: P2P = Napster = disrupted the music industry. P2P technology certainly did that. Skype shook up telecoms and Joost may do the same for TV.
P2P (Peer to Peer) networks could be a lot more. They could be the last big disrupt... |
| 15.08.2007 | LimeWire to Launch Legit Music Store | File sharing company LimeWire has announced plans to open a legitimate music store, which it will eventually integrate into its popular -- and controversial -- P2P software. The company is facing increasing pressure to clean up its business... |
| 09.08.2007 | uTorrent Takes on the BitTorrent Scammers | To the novice file sharer, the site Mp3downloadhq.com sounds like it has an attractive name. MP3’s? Check. Downloads? Check. HQ? Sounds like the nerve center – check.
But this site doesn’t bring a free file-sharing experience. It brings a n... |
| 02.05.2007 | LimeWire Adds Ubuntu Support | Up until today LimeWire was only available as an .rpm package. Unfortunately these packages didn’t work on the latest Ubuntu versions without having to apply a workaround. Luckily, the LimeWire developers didn’t sit still, and today they re... |
| 13.04.2007 | Digital music unstoppable… Big screens increase productivity… Eco advice for SMEs | New figures confirm digital music creeping up
The digital share of local wholesale music sales has jumped from 1.5% to 5.5% in calendar 2006, according to new figures from the Australian Recording Industry Association.
There was a 251% incr... |
| 28.03.2007 | LimeWire Most Installed P2P Application, BitTorrent Clients Runner up | Unfortunately the report is not open for the public to read, people who are interested in the results need to pay $195 for a summary of (in my opinion) heavily confounded, and pretty much worthless statistics. Let me first start with a shor... |
| 15.02.2007 | Subscribe to TV Shows with Torrent Episode Downloader | Torrent Episode Downloader simplifies the process of locating and downloading torrents of your favourite TV shows to a great extent. All you have to do is launch the application and hit the “New show” button. Once you choose which show you ... |
| 19.11.2006 | How to install LimeWire on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) | If you’re an Ubuntu user, you’ve probably upgraded to the new version 6.10 (Edgy Eft). If you haven’t, I recommend you leave it that way for now, especially if less-experienced people other than yourself also use the computer it’s installed... |
| 02.11.2006 | Limewire now supports BitTorrent downloads | Limewire is not aiming to be the most sophisticated BitTorrent client, they just want to provide an extra service to the existing Limewire users. There is not a lot of info on the torrents while you are downloading. No tracker info, no seed... |
| 23.10.2006 | SkyRider gets $12M more for aggressive P2P search engine | Updated
SkyRider, the Mountain View start-up developing an aggressive search engine for peer-to-peer traffic, has raised another $12 million in venture capital.
The round, led by ComVentures, comes just two months after it raised $8 million... |