Ares Connect

If I were to tell you that LimeWire – the filesharing service that epitomizes everything that is gung-ho and ‘wild west’ about the industry – were going to try and provide a subscription-based service, you’d think that I were mad. If I told you that this service had been in the pipeline for quite some time, and they LimeWire were in talks with record companies about it, then you’d think I was even more mad.

Well, bananas to you. I must be mad.

This announcement from LimeWire, on the back of a huge legal loss against the RIAA and with the threat of another legal battle looming, seems to us very much like a panic attack from the filesharing company. Their contention that this has be planned “for months” sounds like them spinning a yarn… as we see it this is the only way they can see to get out of this mess.

Whatever the motivation behind this sudden change of heart, it’s going to be interesting to see them manage such a huge upheaval in what HAS to be record time. Of course, we’ve all used LimeWire at one time or another (well, over 50% of us have, anyway, according to statistics), and we sure do wish them well.

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