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Lime Wire to launch digital music store
Before BitTorrent was all the rage in peer to peer file sharing, you may remember that the easiest way to illegally obtain music, movies, and other files was through file sharing programs like Lime Wire, BearShare, Morpheus. You know, the children of Napster.Of course, now Napster's gone legit and sells music. It looks like Lime Wire is looking to follow suit. The company has announced plans to open a music download store.
The store will be web-based, although you'll be able to access the site from links in Lime Wire's file-sharing software. So far the company has signed up IRIS Distribution and Nettwerk Productions. Content will be available as MP3s, and customers will be able to buy individual songs and albums or pay a monthly fee for subscription plans.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Carol Boris said 6:29PM on 9-07-2007
I have alot of respect for Lime Wire; I have at least 2000 music files from every era, genre, musician, current newly released 2007 albums, all from Lime Wire. I download music I hate because I believe in the peer sharing policy. I am happy Lime Wire is Opening a music store website, what is funny is that is where I wrote down all the best albums, song by song and artists from other web music stores for free. I spent hours of hard work finding all the best top billboard music from every era and year. I am 60 and know all the songs and year they came out. I find that by watching Lime Wire's Advanced graphs, I have hundreds of thousand downloads and uploads off my computer in less then a week, which later show up as adds on tv for artists and music long forgotten, that I had downloaded years ago or recent new recordings all of a sudden so popular. I watch the charts and see the same pattern. I can see the numbers of which recordings are being downloaded the most, sometimes nearly 1000 for one song, and this is an almost every day going on. Lime Wire should not be ridiculed but paid for all their advertising with the help of the peer sharing.
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Carol Boris said 6:30PM on 9-07-2007
I have alot of respect for Lime Wire; I have at least 2000 music files from every era, genre, musician, current newly released 2007 albums, all from Lime Wire. I download music I hate because I believe in the peer sharing policy. I am happy Lime Wire is Opening a music store website, what is funny is that is where I wrote down all the best albums, song by song and artists from other web music stores for free. I spent hours of hard work finding all the best top billboard music from every era and year. I am 60 and know all the songs and year they came out. I find that by watching Lime Wire's Advanced graphs, I have hundreds of thousand downloads and uploads off my computer in less then a week, which later show up as adds on tv for artists and music long forgotten, that I had downloaded years ago or recent new recordings all of a sudden so popular. I watch the charts and see the same pattern. I can see the numbers of which recordings are being downloaded the most, sometimes nearly 1000 for one song, and this is an almost every day going on. Lime Wire should not be ridiculed but paid for all their advertising with the help of the peer sharing.
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Carol Boris said 6:34PM on 9-07-2007
I have alot of respect for Lime Wire; I have at least 2000 music files from every era, genre, musician, current newly released 2007 albums, all from Lime Wire. I download music I hate because I believe in the peer sharing policy. I am happy Lime Wire is Opening a music store website, what is funny is that is where I wrote down all the best albums, song by song and artists from other web music stores for free. I spent hours of hard work finding all the best top billboard music from every era and year. I am 60 and know all the songs and year they came out. I find that by watching Lime Wire's Advanced graphs, I have hundreds of thousand downloads and uploads off my computer in less then a week, which later show up as adds on tv for artists and music long forgotten, that I had downloaded years ago or recent new recordings all of a sudden so popular. I watch the charts and see the same pattern. I can see the numbers of which recordings are being downloaded the most, sometimes nearly 1000 for one song, and this is an almost every day going on. Lime Wire should not be ridiculed but paid for all their advertising with the help of the peer sharing.
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