Limewire Countersues RIAA

[madbunny]

hah... that reminded me about the classic AMD vs Intel discussion threads....

Even if they do close down limewire, limewire uses the gnutella network, wich is vertually impossble to close down completely, since it doesn't rely on a central server. Getting rid of the limewire servers will make it a little harder to connect, but all you need is to find another access point to connect to, which could be any other gnutella client software's servers, which will then connect you to everyone else until you create the swarm. they'll have a hell of a time clossing down everyone.

wel, without going all off topic and such, what they really need to do is to create legislation that will allow them to control it from the backbone servers. Once they get that, or at least permission from the higher courts to have XYZ shut down pending investigations it won't matter since it'll be hammer time.

[Shazzy]

Limewire's case may also focus on the illicit methods possibly used by the RIAA to pursue music sharers; for example, distributing copyrighted music via Limewire and then hacking the next unlucky downloader in the name of law enforcement. Not really sure on the details, but the RIAA has attempted to have such actions legally sanctioned in the past.