By nathan | August 8, 2006
Friday afternoon, we received a call from a reporter from the Associated Press asking about the lawsuit that had been filed against Lime Wire. That was the first we heard of the lawsuit filed by the four major record labels against Lime Wire in the Southern District of New York. Later in the afternoon we received the official papers.
We are currently in the process of looking for legal counsel and figuring out what our strategy will be.
By jherskowitz | September 10, 2009 - Posted in LimeWire/Gnutella, News, Updates
Dear Friends -
Recently we rolled out a great feature in LimeWire 5.2 that let you guys easily share files with your Facebook friends using LimeWire. This feature has been very positively received and we have been working on building out that feature and extending it to users of other social networks as well. Shortly after […]
By meverett | June 10, 2009 - Posted in Java, Swing, Updates
Thanks for everyone who attended our session at JavaOne 2009.
Anyone who was there knows we promised to post our slides and demo source code. So here you go:
LimeWire: Swing for the Masses.pdf
Guice-Demo.zip
GlazedLists-Demo.zip
JXLayer-Demo.zip
Painting-Demo.zip
If you’d like to see slides from other talks, all of the slides from JavaOne can be found here.
LimeWire is also open source. So […]
By Dan | May 28, 2009 - Posted in Community, Java, Swing
Sam and Mike are presenting “Developing LimeWire: Swing for the Masses” at JavaOne, this Wednesday at 1:30. Their presentation is for all Swing developers targeting the Java™ 1.6 or later platform and discusses LimeWire’s new UI architecture. It covers tips and examples for using various technologies such as core Swing, SwingX, AppFramework, GlazedLists, and XUL. […]
By Ernie Yu | May 19, 2009 - Posted in Coding, Java, Swing
The upcoming version of LimeWire adds advanced filtering features to help you refine search results and locate files. These features display controls to select from several file attributes, such as category, file extension, and file size. In particular, the file size control uses a dual-thumb slider to allow you to select a range of sizes […]
By meverett | April 9, 2009 - Posted in Coding, Java, Swing
One of the features we added into LimeWire 5 was a thumbnail view for images which solves a lot of problems. In older versions, images appeared as a list of filenames. There are few problems with this.
1) Most images are poorly named. Digital cameras have not helped this at all; it’s impossible to remember that […]
By meverett | March 13, 2009 - Posted in Java, Swing, miglayout
Take a look at the image below. There are three major components: a top header that spans the width, a left hand nav and a main panel that fills the remaining width and height. It would be pretty easy to lay out these three components using BorderLayout.
Now suppose we wanted to add a floating component […]
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Charles Marseille Says:
August 9th, 2006 at 9:02 am |
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Salut guys, I can only say keep it up! Not only the RIAA lawsuit is ridiculous, LW has a chance to stop the sue-everybody-and-their-mother stupidity. I hope the hard earned money LW got over the years and support from M. Gorton will serve to fight in justice. The justice system might look corrupted by corporations these days, but the strongest have the duty to stand for the others who can’t use the legal system.
Anyway, it might be a little harder than usual, but keep on working! Be positive, we (users and supporters) are with you ;)
Looking forward 4.14!
Ciao
Aleksandersen Says:
August 9th, 2006 at 4:03 pm |
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I thought LimeWire was the most legal or clean file sharing applications out there!?
With the license warning, content filtering an such.
Anonymous Says:
August 10th, 2006 at 4:09 am |
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I say sue Sun for creating a programming language that can be used to develop filesharing software.
Monsuco Says:
August 11th, 2006 at 8:09 pm |
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Limewire’s official website will not allow for downloading of limewire if you say you will use it for infringment. Limewire’s end user license agreement says something about that I think. Their software warns you about unlicensed content and allows for you to display the license for content. Their site tells users to not download content illegally. Their site says that you may not use limewire for copyright infringment Their official forums has a section for discussion of how to use P2P technology legally. To top it off, their forums also talk about how to publish your own content and how to publish creative commons content. I personally have uploaded a lot of information to the Gnutella network. Not one bit of that was illegal. Much of what I put in my shared folder was FOSS software primarily availible under the GNU General Public License. Some was LGPLed. Some was under other FOSS licenses. I also uploaded several photo’s of nature that I personally took. I shared software such as Gaim, QEMU, Firefox, Thunderbird, Bochs, Limewire, Frostwire, Mute, AUdacity, Open Office, Sunbird, Mozilla, Damn Small Linux, Damn Small Linux Embeded, QEMU Puppy Linux, Clamwin USB, 7-Zip, and FillZilla. All this was significant noninfringing use.
I kind of think that Limewire would have even more “noninfringing use” defence power if LimeWire LLC would make a deal with Creative Commons to have their CC Uploader app also upload to a server using Limewire to distribute Creative Commons content via Gnutella (of course, it would still upload to the archive site). I think it does this with another Filesharing network, and that would prove that there is significant noninfringing use. Limewire’s site could also do a daily “highlighted Creative Commons artist of the day” who would be an artist who’s work was licensed under a Creative Commons license that Limewire would have a link to and would talk a bit about on their site. That would provide a powerful “significant noninfringing use” defence.
Of course, if Limewire should fail, and then be forced to filter content, Frostwire has stated that they will continue on without censoring people. Every time the RIAA attacks P2P, it only seems to get stronger. They attack Napster, Limewire pops up. Since Limewire is decentralized, they attack Limewire users. Peer Guardian pops up and Mute pops up. If Mute style P2P ever replaces Gnutella style, then the RIAA wont be able to find users to sue.
Of course, Limewire is probably the P2P service with the most respect to copyright. They have been activly discouraging infringment. That alone proves innocence.
Another Anonymous Says:
August 12th, 2006 at 5:49 am |
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I say sue IBM for creating an open standard for hardware that allowed Sun to create a programming language that can be used to develop filesharing software.
Belle Catharine Says:
August 21st, 2006 at 6:48 pm |
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What Limewire has enabled the Internet community to do, share ideas and information, CANNOT be stopped, as “Monsuco” so eloquently states. All I wish to say is I will do whatever I can to help fight big business.
Robert Doyle Says:
September 14th, 2006 at 1:57 am |
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Frankly, It totally pisses me off. A few questions come to mind that should aid you in your defense. First off, Can you or can you not sell a gun to someone and expect them to use it properly… Answer YES… that means that everyone that l kills someone with a gun has misused a TOOL for another perpose… I don’t see people in the masses lining up to take down the 2 million gun shops in america. Secondly, Can you or can you not record right off the radio which is CONTROLLED by the FCC HOT and Freshly releaased music from popular artists?… Answer YES… Tape players have been around for years and if it wasn’t intended that way when it was designed then the Tape deck wouldn’t get power when the radio is switched to FM or AM. same goes with movies… IF I want to watch something off the tv again say american Idol… then I just set my VCR to record… lets not even get into copy machines… the point is IF i wanted to send tommy down the street a song I have from one of my cds…. ONE it may encourage him to go buy it… because i’m not going to let him have mine forever and secondly Just forget LIMEWIRE… NAPSTER… BEARSHARE… I have been sending songs threw Emails ever since I learned how to use a computer… The artist this and the artist that…. The MOGULS could give two somethings and something else about Artists… The fact is there records don’t sell because they get 2 good songs and put them with 10 to 16 average or crappy songs and Generation X refuses to be limited to having to buy an entire cd for 2 or 3 songs when we could just get them off the radio convert them using exsisting technology to disc and have our own versions of “Now thats what I call music Vol. Mine”
It pisses me off that a good lawyer wouldn’t take your case and ask these questions. I don’t even use it to download music, most of the time its used to pass mine and my friends shareware (which is perfectly freaken legal)or to download home videos from other users who haven’t put a copy right on it and have released it for everyone to veiw. I don’t believe that you have to change a thing, well except, maybe a low monthly charge say 15 dollars U.S. no more than a video game would charge for an MMO. If the MoGuls want a slice then so be it but LIMEWIRE has a disclaimer everyone excepts… its on the individual… and on that note its agains privacy acts to release (if its even loged, download logs) simply because they don’t know what our cause for downloading is… this whole case should be brought down to local level… if one individual is downloading and bootlegging music eventually they will get caught, the police put in a request for ISP traffic levels…. and that is how you catch them… you don’t go after the LIMEWIRE (Gunshop) because they just provide a service.
Please feel free to bounce thoughts off me…. I have been thinking your postion over ever since Napster so I am probably way ahead in critical thinking if not then i’m right up there with them… lol
sighs… had to vent a bit… thx for listening
Robert Doyle Says:
September 14th, 2006 at 2:16 am |
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And further more…. the next thing they will say… is… Okay… No more emailing… you can send other media in the form of media and well were not getting paid… all the well hell son… they day a song goes on the radio, is the day they gave up the right to the way it was used because they RELEASED it to the public… granted you can’t make your own hit song over someone elses beats or there vocals over someone elses beats… OH WAIT MY BAD… sirius already does that its called… the mash-up with El Caveno on Octane channel 20… Thats right I PAY for my radio music… so in a since the moguls have already been paid by someone for broadcast of music and since I pay for my satelite signal I am free to do whatever I want with it as long as I don’t sell it… last time I checked limewire wasn’t a partner of paypal…
I think thats enough for tonight… lol
hopeless Says:
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:45 pm |
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I must say because of all this crap …….it looks like i will have to rebuy over 500 movies…i already paid for them once on vhs(of course no longer popular) and now tried to convert them to dvd, only to find copy infringement laws and (macrovision) prevent me from doing it. How is this fair to me? So i find myself on limewire doing the unthinkable and downloading movies. (movies i already own) with my luck i will be the person caught and thrown in jail. I salute p2p..to me it’s the little guy looking out for one another……i have no legal way to preserve my movies and should i have to buy them again?
Robspace1 Says:
January 7th, 2007 at 1:30 am |
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When the day comes that we as people are not allowed to share music and books with each other then the day has come to close all the librarys-HLets start with the Library Of Congress!
Robert Doyle Says:
January 9th, 2007 at 3:47 pm |
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See thats just it… once I pay someone for the movie I feel I own it for life… I have bought boot-legs in other countries before… The crime isn’t downloading and keeping for yourself… because thats the reason they made a vcr able to record off of the tv and other vcrs… the crime is what the gentalmen in the other countries were doing… getting the movie and mass producing it for the public at a fee to them… Copying something you have already paid for is perfectly legal… The Internet is just like Radio or the TV… its a medium from which you get programs made by companies… The only difference is that I pay for High bandwith so I can transfer media… if I can’t then whats the use in paying for something I can’t use… So justifing what I do on the internet thats “FREE” isn’t because I have to pay for an Internet connection capible of handling downloading sizes of various media…