Why is LimeWire shutdown?

[Richard_CA]

There are plenty of other fileshare sites such as Frostwire and Bearshare that are still in operation. Why is Limewire singled out to be the one that has to be shutdown?

[XxCharmedxX]

Limewire was the most well-known, so a lot of people used it. With fame they gained a following, which is why they were stopped.

[Jesse Rutan]

On October 26, 2010, US federal court judge Kimba Wood issued an injunction forcing LimeWire to prevent "the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality, and/or all functionality" of its software in Arista Records LLC v. Lime Group LLC.[3][4] A trial investigating the damages necessary to compensate the affected record labels is scheduled to begin in January 2011.[5] As a result of the injunction, LimeWire 5.5.11 and newer have been disabled using a backdoor installed by the company. However, version 5.5.10 and all prior versions of LimeWire remain fully functional and cannot be disabled unless a user upgrades to one of the newer versions.[6][7] The program has been "resurrected" by the creators of Limewire Pirate Edition.[8]