The shuttered NYC-based P2P file-sharing service LimeWire has agreed to settle the lawsuit brought against them by a raft of record labels, negotiating out of court to pay a sum of $105 million.
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THE FIVE BOROUGHS: 2010 has been busy all right. For anyone involved in New York City’s expansive business of music – producer, publisher, entrepreneur, engineer, artist, and many more – the environment remains fast-paced, ultra-competitive and constantly changing.
With 2011 looming, SonicScoop looked for the news, trends and topics that Read more...
LimeWire, the NYC-based file-sharing service, said on Friday that it would completely shut down its operations as of December 31, 2010. The SoHo office will be closed in the process.
The announcement appears to mark the final chapter for the highly controversial company, which started out as a peer-to-peer (P2P) Read more...
The bad news continued on Wednesday for NYC-based LimeWire, as the National Music Publisher’s Association filed a lawsuit against the file-sharing service for copyright infringement of their works “on a massive scale”.
In May, Judge Kimba M. Wood of United States District Court in Manhattan ruled that LimeWire and its Read more...
Last week, the LimeWire Store exclusively released an EP titled Live at Lime with The Hidden Cameras, featuring the Canadian indie pop group fronted by singer-songwriter Joel Gibb.
For the six-track EP, The Hidden Cameras recorded a session with LimeWire before a gig in New York City during their North Read more...
