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2. LimeWire - Wikipedia

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   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. Timeline of file sharing - Wikipedia

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   June 1996 – Mp3 warez group Rabid Neurosis founded. Using connections inside record companies, they rip pre-release music CDs, and make the mp3's available for others to download. [13] Mirabilis developed ICQ a chat client for Windows that can do file transfers up to 2 GBs. 1997 – Scour Inc. is founded by five UCLA Computer Science students.

4. Napster - Wikipedia

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   Napster agreed to pay music creators and copyright owners a $26 million settlement for past, unauthorized uses of music, and as an advance against future licensing royalties of $10 million. To pay those fees, Napster attempted to convert its free service into a subscription system, and thus traffic to Napster was reduced.

5. 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 ...

6. Music piracy - Wikipedia

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   There have been several means of free access to copyrighted music for the general public including Napster, Limewire, and Spotify. Napster was a free file sharing software created by college student Shawn Fanning to enable people to share and trade music files in mp3 format. Napster became hugely popular because it made it so easy to share and ...

7. Metallica v. Napster, Inc. - Wikipedia

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   Metallica traced the leak to a file on Napster's peer-to-peer file-sharing network, where the band's entire catalogue was available for free download. [5] Metallica argued that Napster was enabling users to exchange copyrighted MP3 files. [6] Metallica sought a minimum of $10 million in damages, at a rate of $100,000 per illegally downloaded ...

8. LimeWire Is Making a Comeback to Sell Music NFTs - AOL

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   LimeWire is coming back to life as a digital collectibles marketplace, and it's starting with a partnership with Universal Music Group, according to a press release issued by UMG. POLL: Do You ...

9. BearShare - Wikipedia

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   The principal operators of Free Peers, Inc. were Vincent Falco and Louis Tatta. [2] Bearshare was launched on December 4, 2000, as a Gnutella-based peer-to-peer file sharing application with innovative features that eventually grew to include IRC, a free library of software and media called BearShare Featured Artists, online help pages and a support forum integrated as dedicated web browser ...