How that Limewire fine could fix the UK budget deficit

The company behind the file-sharing software is facing a big bill. A very big bill. More to the point, it faces a shutdown order in two weeksAndrew WK at the LimeWire Party, March 2010. Photo by jasonlam on Flickr. Some rights reservedHere's a solution to the budget deficit: get LimeWire to pay it.That's because a calculation by a lawyer acting for the US's record label representative, the RIAA, is that LimeWire - found guilty earlier this year of knowingly abetting the infringement of copyright...

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