The music industry has long been overtly hostile to the world of peer to peer file sharing and the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) has gotten very aggressive, funding epic spending towards law suits targeting nearly every source of music trading over the past few years. This time, the music industry is going to federal courts in the United States in an attempt to have file sharing service Lime Wire stop streaming any and all advertisements or collecting ad money in any form. The RIAA also wants to see the management end all software upgrades and cease collecting revenue in any form whatsoever. It appears that the US courts may indeed side with those in the RIAA and put a true damper on what Lime Wire has been doing up until now, shutting the service down for good with a permanent injunction that will not allow it to keep up its operations. Copyright issues are, of course, the top complaint and these suits were filed back in 2006. The damages could be up to a billion dollars and would certainly put Lime Wire out of business once and for all, a massive strike to file sharing.
The high level partners that Lime Wire had been able to bring in on its side are now fleeing the scene and this alone could be horrible news for the company as it will be left to fend for itself in an increasingly hostile environment. Citing irreparable harm, the court is set to put the file sharing giant down for good in favor of the RIAA, a major victory for the music industry that is definitely going to make it more difficult for future services to operate without their graces.
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