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opular file-sharing website LimeWire has been ordered to permanently shut down six months after a federal judge found it liable for copyright infringement on a "massive scale."

In an order Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood in Manhattan entered a permanent injunction, ordering the service to disable the searching, downloading, uploading or file trading of its software and to block the sharing of unauthorized music files.

The lawsuit was brought in 2006 on behalf of the major record labels by the Recording Industry Association of America.

In May, the judge found that LimeWire had violated copyright laws and induced users to infringe on copyrights. She also found Mark Gorton, LimeWire's founder, personally liable.

"Plaintiffs have suffered—and will continue to suffer— irreparable harm from LimeWire's inducement of widespread infringement of their wires," the judge wrote in her order.

In a statement Tuesday, the RIAA said the court w...See More


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