As you will recall, Judge Kimba Wood ordered LimeWire to shutdown last October after finding the file-sharing service liable for copyright infringement and inducement to commit copyright infringement.  An estimated three billion songs per month were downloaded through LimeWire and the music industry wants the now defunct company to pay upwards of $75 trillion in [...]

The popular file sharing program, Limewire, was issued a permanent injunction on October 26, 2010 by Judge Wood of the Southern District of New York to cease “the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading…and/or all functionality” of the software.  In May, the court granted summary judgment in favor of the music industry’s (the RIAA and thirteen [...]