Tag: limewire

Filesharing service LimeWire was reborn this year as an NFTs marketplace, complete with $10.4m of token-sale funding and a deal with UMG.

It took the wrappers off that relaunch, including the first artists who'll be selling NFTs on the service, and the terms.

Music industry veterans will be forgiven for boggling at this headline, but it's true. LimeWire and UMG are now partners.

While VC firms including Kraken Ventures, Arrington Capital and GSR led the investment, there are also some music figures involved.

It's fair to say few people in the music industry were hoping for a comeback for LimeWire in 2022, given its history.

The gloves are well and truly off in the long-bubbling copyright infringement case brought against Grooveshark by major labels

TechDirt has torn a strip off the NME (and others who linked to its recent story) for erroneously claiming that the RIAA was looking for $72 trillion (yes, trillion) in settlement from LimeWire.

Nielsen Netview data claims that 65% of people who were using Limewire in September 2010 weren't using other sites that primarily provide illegal downloads a year later - from a group including The Pirate Bay, Frostwire and...

The RIAA has published a blog post outlining the impact of the closure of Limewire in late 2010.

LimeWire may be defunct as an operating business, but it remains enmeshed in litigation from various rightsholders. Merlin is the latest to reach a settlement with the company, following its lawsuit filed in July 2011 on...

The RIAA has published a statement welcoming the shutdown of storage service Megaupload, and saying it should send some new users to legal services.

Remember Douglas Merrill? He's the exec that EMI poached from Google in 2008 to be its worldwide president of digital, but who left the company a year later. Now, in his role as CEO of a company called ZestCash, he's been...