launched ten years ago it appears that as of yesterday the peer to peer file sharing software called lime wire is dead now in a four year old case brought by the recording industry association of america a us judge ruled that lie wires users commit a substantial amount of copyright infringement that the company hasn't taken any meaningful steps to mitigate that infringement and the jam just to the music industry amount to over one dollars now we won't know how much line wire is going to have to pay until january but for users yesterday marked the day that the website officially of sports to shutter its file sharing service is now to make clear just how large line wires retied extended over the years it's been estimated that its software was downloaded two hundred million times on the website now if visited offers a few thoughts from the c.e.o. entitled dark clouds and silver linings here feels his disappointment at the sadness but also the promise of their team of technologists are creating a new service for users to look forward to how can we really look at this is this proof the record label