LimeWire In Fight of Its Life

LimeWire, the peer-to-peer software that has turned this mild-mannered engineer into the music industry’s most-wanted geek. According to the NPD Group, in Port Washington, N.Y., LimeWire is the leading peer-to-peer (P2P) program—with 62 percent of the transaction share, ahead of programs such as BitTorrent and Kazaa.

I had assumed that BitTorrent was the predominant file sharing application, but LimeWire has that beat by a landslide. If the RIAA succeeds, it will go the way of the dodo. I am not sure what Judge will take the $150,000 per song violation request that seriously though.

Source: IEEE Spectrum