Music Industry Asks Court to Shut LimeWire

The music industry has asked a federal court in New York to order a shutdown of the LimeWire service. Lawyers working for the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group for the four top record companies, filed documents requesting that a U.S. District Court in Manhattan grant them a permanent injunction against the country's largest commercial file-sharing service.

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