![]() ![]() We can get as much music as we want by just tapping a few buttons with our hands. No one is going to FYE, Best Buy, or your local music store to buy CDs anymore. We live in a time where the streaming era is now how we consume music. It prepared us for what the music industry had in store for everyone down the line. Of course, there were many other file sharing services that came such as Mediafire, Hulkshare, Bearshare, etc., but Limewire was the one that raised us. If you did not get a virus on your computer by being on Limewire, then you weren’t living right. It gave us joy and it got us in trouble all at the same time. Limewire gave people around my age access to get music for free. ![]() It practically cost the music industry hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. The site’s popularity is reflected in a survey by NDP Group, which found that LimeWire was used by 58% of people who have downloaded music from a peer-to-peer network in the year from May 2009.” Although Limewire wasn’t the first to do it, they were one of the biggest since Napster. The rise to prominence of peer-to-peer filesharing networks is singled out as a primary factor for this decline by the RIAA. The Guardian reported: “According to RIAA figures, US recorded music sales fell to $7.7 billion in 2009 from $14.5 billion in 1999. ![]()
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