Thereafter, the company stopped distributing the LimeWire software, and versions 5.5.11 and newer have been disabled using a backdoor installed by the company. As a result of the injunction, the RIAA initially suggested that LimeWire was responsible for $72 trillion in damages, before eventually settling for $105 million. A trial investigating the damages necessary to compensate the affected record labels was scheduled to begin in January 2011. federal court judge Kimba Wood issued an injunction ordering Lime Wire LLC to prevent "the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality, and/or all functionality" of its software in Arista Records LLC v. BitTorrent support is provided by libtorrent. LimeWire uses the gnutella network as well as the BitTorrent protocol. īoth a zero-cost version and a purchasable "enhanced" version called LimeWire Pro were available however, LimeWire Pro could be acquired for free through the standard LimeWire software, where users distributed it without authorization. In 2007, LimeWire was estimated to be installed on over one-third of all computers globally.
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