Ares Connect

It is difficult days for filesharing services across the world. The legal battles are coming quick and fast. It seems that governments and lawmakers everywhere are increasingly eager to bring in new laws that go out of their way to prevent filesharing services doing business.

So it is with LimeWire, the giant filesharing service that provides its client to a huge number of filesharing fans. First it was the RIAA – a battle which LimeWire unequivocally lost – now it’s the RIAA’s younger sister, the NMPA: National Music Publishers Association. The charge is very similar, and we cannot see how the result is going to be any different. Very unfortunate on so many levels.

LimeWire is allegedly in talks with music publishers to figure out some way to offer music in a legal and aboveboard manner. In our humble opinion this move is flawed, if not only because of the massively belligerent attitude that publishers’ groups have taken towards the filesharing service. We think it very unlikely that any move to go legitimate will be welcomed by publishers: they want blood.

But what good will that do, in fact? LimeWire will be in a position to start another filesharing service – one without the bad reputation, perhaps – and are very likely to do so.

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