Blog: Listening Post - Wired Blogs

The file sharing software Limewire, with "80 to 100 million reasonably regular users," is one of the biggest forces in music distribution and still faces a lawsuit from multiple record labels. But now that the majors have made deals with MySpace, YouTube and other content networks, Lime Wire hopes to offer the sort of licensed P2P service that the original Napster could have become. One move in this direction is a new personalization feature that lets people share music and other content only with specific friends. "Lime Wire was started, unbelievably, about eight years ago [...]