This month, Limewire was found guilty of copyright infringement, a significant court ruling that changes the structure of peer-to-peer file sharing, and may signify the decline of the company. Last week, Limewire CEO George Searle told Billboard that despite the ruling, he hopes that record labels are still willing to work with his company.
“We’d made no secret about the fact that we want to work with the entire music industry,” Searle said. “We’ve had numerous promising meetings with labels, publishers and artists to develop models that will compensate all. We have very strong ideas about how to integrate relevant, contextual marketing into P2P networks. We’ve been thinking about this for a long time and would like to give it a shot. The industry has supported very little experimentation on trying to leverage distributed activity to everybody’s benefit. Ten years after Napster, we’re still wondering if there’s a real business here. So we’ve expressed our desire to license music and settle the P2P.”
However, music labels, publishers, and artists are extremely wary of cooperating with the entity, which still fails to acknowledge that over 98% of its shared material infringe on copyrights. “I’ve been in meetings where I ask a music executive in all earnestness, ‘How can I best help you?’ The knee-jerk response is, ‘Shut down LimeWire.’ It provides for an interesting discussion, because what’s going to happen if we do that? We’re building a revolutionary music service and we’d like to launch it smack dab on top of the P2P network. It’s got to be a better alternative.”
Searle said he hopes to also work with iTunes and other players to legally make accessible millions of music files through an entirely new model. As of now, there is little news from music labels on whether or not they would be willing to cooperate with Limewire on the matter.
I know this isn’t exactly the same but this reminds me of the shit that happened with the Japanese anime site crunchyroll. They were streaming anime with out the permission of the owners and they knowingly did it for years. Intill the american and Japanese companys said fuck this and planed on sueing them and all that jazz. But then CR said hey let’s save our ass by working with these guys instead of stealing from them….. Years later there still around only this time legite. It seems like limewire is pulling the same shit instead of just takeing it down there triying everything they can to save there baby. I’m not saying I wouldn’t either if I were them but to me this just seems like a cop out becuz they know if they keep going down the same route there fucked. And god knows they don’t have the money to pay these people even if they wanted to. If there smart thell start at square one and rebuild from there into a more legite company so they can gain back some cred in the music industry.
Anime. Nigga get the fuck outta here
I love limewire. I got the new nas album last night. And for the haters who thinks downloading free music is illegal but buy shit that glorifies illegal shit is stupid. Rappers love illegal shit until that shit affects them. Plus leave it to the white boys to buy music.
You go kill yourself, Quality music deserve to be purchased. Nas—I will never download Nas but I will download Lil Wayne for my young brother.
Your’re an idiot. I bought the cater 3. Nas like little wayne. He was on the album (shitty album)
“I bought the cater 3”, wtf is that, some Denny’s shit?
Hughes to teh pen!
Theres only 2 categories of music these days:
the kind i wont mind spending $25 on a disc (jay z,em,kanye,lupe,rihanna,j. cole,clipse,n.e.r.d,outkast,t.i,50 cent) The rest is illegal download all day!
wtf? what kind of expensive ass cd’s are you buying? $25 for real? Bought distant relatives the other day for like 11 bucks. People act like discs are hellllla expensive lol wow
I buy music form Nas, Jay-Z, Talib, Mos def, Jadakiss, common, etc,,,,But will never buy crunck music and garbage music…drake, and the crew..
niggaz i bought 10 copies of C3 and i downloaded it too…
when u respect ur favorite rapper u do everything for him not just screaming his name over the net..lil wayne! will sell whether there’s limewire or not,it’s not about free stuffs it’s about quality..
C3 sold 3 million cuz it was dope,it was real it was g album u could hear weezy’s! heart..on the other hand that nigga shit from nas sold 300k cuz it was wack not cuz niggaz download nas and buy lil wayne!…
gangstas don’t spend 20 hours on the net like some of ya,they have stuffs to do hustling to do bitchz to fuck niggaz to kill…they go and buy the shit they don’t get on da net to download it…
lil wayne! is a blood and bloods aren’t cyber gangstas they’re on the street they hustle\steal the $10-$20 from nas and nas fans and go buy weezy’s! shit…that’s what make u sell more than others…
being blood and spitting that real gangsta shit helped weezy! sell 3mill not reporting his album all over download sites..i hope u lil kids get the message…
lil wayne! is da greatest of all da time fuck haters
ahhaahahah what a faggot…………………………you aint a thug foo shut the fuck up! thugs aint on every post on hip hopdx riding wayne, they out doing work motha fucka! prob a teenager, real niggaz at work bitchhhh
I didn’t know they let you use computers and the internet in prison dwayne!
C3 was a hitmaker album it wasnt a classic album. Plus people brag that it sold 1 milion in a week but it took a whole year to sell three million copies. Nelly sold 500,000 copies in one day and went diamond. Fifty sold 800,000 in a week and went diamond. Outkast Stankonia sold 15 million copies. So stop giving C3 so much credit like it sold more than thriller. 400 degreez went four times platinum
nah…all yall trippin…todays market doenst support units anymore….why? cause its not worth it….if a fan loves an artiss music they should be able to listen to it. Dude up here talkin bout buyin 3 c3? that wasnt even his best album or even of the year…the only people that have a problem with it are the rich ones with all the money…..how else could an artist get heard if it wasnt for the internet and free music…..kid kudi, wale, and even drake wouldnt have had a chance without all that…besides, the radio makes enough money for the big rappers anyway….if u want ur fans to respect u then make music worth it and put on a good show…hearin all this bullshit is like hearin the guy with a horse store that gets mad cause the economy is switchin to cars…music should never have been about the money…
aye just call gucci and merk them niggas
fuck a lawsuit nigga
I wonder what the industry can do, besides accepting whats happening in the digital world and working with companies like LimeWire to produce new profits.
It started 10 years ago and beyond with Napster and the likes, but it hasn’t slowed down one bit. If the Labels shut this one down, people will find others.
It’s not about quality anymore it’s about quantity. How can you expect people to buy quality CDs in an already over-saturated marketplace.
Labels better start changing the way they think…
Do what you gotta do Limewire, but don’t take away the porn!
NO PLEASE NOT THE PORN
ahhhh not the porn!!!
Limewire helps you find that free music they were offering awhile ago, when you’ve miss your chance cuz they had a limit of downloads, plus download movies that you might have but didn’t with you cuz using the disk drive drain your computer batteries, but if it’s downloaded on the computer while you travel it helps pass the time, and won’t drain your computer batteries as much as it would using the disk dive to play your movie(s).
Nothing tastes better than sucking on my daddy’s dick. Maybe Lil Wayne’s. Now I see where he got the Lil in his name.
if limewire goes away then someone else will replace it. as long as trash keeps getting put out there, and rappers telling me how rich they are and how broke i am cuz i buy they shit, then fuck all them niggas and the record companies, i’ll download ur cornball as wacka flacka fag and keep money in my pocket. fuck what you or ur mama heard