Court shuts down LimeWire music-sharing service

Federal Judge Kimba Wood 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 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, Judge Wood issued a permanent injunction that requires the company to disable its "searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality."