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                By Yinka Adegoke and Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday granted the music industry's request to shut down the popular LimeWire file-sharing service, which had been found liable for copyright infringement.
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By Yinka Adegoke and Jonathan Stempel
        
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        Wed Oct 27, 2010 5:48am EDT
        
    
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday granted the music industry's request to shut down the popular LimeWire file-sharing service, which had been found liable for copyright infringement.
The ruling by Judge Kimba Wood in Manhattan federal court halts one of the world's biggest services for letting consumers share music, movies and TV shows for free over the Internet.
Saying that LimeWire's parent Lime Wire LLC intentionally caused a "massive scale of infringement" involving thousands of works, Wood issued a permanent injunction that requires the company to disable its "searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality."
Record companies "have suffered -- and will continue to suffer -- irreparable harm from Lime Wire's inducement of widespread infringement of their works," Wood wrote.
She called the potential damages "staggering," and probably "well beyond" the New York-based company's ability to pay.
The signed ruling was made available by The Recording Industry Association of America, which represents music companies. It has said Lime Wire has cost its members hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. A copy of the ruling was not immediately available on the public court docket.
In a statement, Lime Wire expressed disappointment at the ruling. "While this is not our ideal path, we're working with the music industry to move forward," it said.
Lime Wire said the injunction lets it continue testing a service that allows users to buy music from independent labels. The company said it hopes to negotiate agreements with the entire music industry ahead of a full launch.
Founded in 2000 by Mark Gorton, Lime Wire has been a thorn in the side of record companies because millions of fans used it as an easy means to find and download music for free.
U.S. recorded music sales have fallen in value to $7.7 billion in 2009 from $14.5 billion in 1999 according to the RIAA. The music industry blames online and physical piracy as the primary reasons for the decline.
"MASSIVE PIRACY" ALLEGED
Tuesday's injunction "will start to unwind the massive piracy machine that Lime Wire and Gorton used to enrich themselves immensely," the RIAA said in a statement. It said the court will consider damages at a January trial.
The RIAA represents labels owned by Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Group, owned by the Terra Firma private equity firm.
LimeWire has said it has more than 50 million monthly users. These users accounted for 58 percent of people who said they downloaded music from a peer-to-peer service in 2009, a survey by NPD Group showed.
As technology and broadband speeds have improved, LimeWire has also been used to illegally share movies and popular TV shows, attracting criticism from Hollywood as well.
	
	
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Good! I’m glad there’s one less device that the evil criminals of the world can use to transfer free music. 
It just makes me sick to think about all the money being ripped out of the hands of all those poor and starving musicians, producers and record companies.
I think all of the people ever involved with Limewire should be doing hard prison time, I mean, can any of you imagine how much pain and suffering all of these Limewire people have caused. It’s worse than those Napster criminals.
Criminals!
        
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These guys have commited way more injustices in our world than any banker ever has!
        
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