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LimeWire has sent out a PR missive stating that they have been forced to shut down the fully-legal LimeWire Store. Most people I know who used LimeWire had no idea you could actually buy music using the app, though they seemed universally convinced that paying for the pro version meant all their P2P downloads were perfectly legit.
The store will close down for good on December 31, 2010 and is no longer accepting new customers. If you've got credits to spend, hurry up and do it. After the 31st, they're gone for good... and the poor little store never even got to shed its beta tag.
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Subscribe to commentsXDec 5th 2010 6:43PM
The Record Industry still doesn't get it........... They tried the shit in the 70's with the advent of cassette recorders, claiming it was cutting into their profits. Turned out it wasn't people copying recordings onto cassette, it was the quality of music that the record industry was churning out was the factor in their loss of profits.
Anthony S.Dec 5th 2010 7:10PM
@X Totally have to agree with you, there. A lot of music nowadays is really shitty. With all of the new recording technology out there, singers, songwriters and musicians no longer have to actually have talent. They just have to record and run it through auto-tune and pray it all comes out sounding half-way decent. What a sad day we live in... when it comes to music, anyways...
war59312Dec 5th 2010 9:44PM
About time it closed. Means more peeps on bittorrent. Win, Win! :p