(2010-12-01) Limewire Closed Then Cloned

*On October 26, 2010, popular Gnutella servent LimeWire was ordered shut down by Judge Kimba Wood of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York when she signed a Consent Injunction which LimeWire and recording industry plaintiffs had agreed upon. This event may have caused a notable drop in the size of the network because, while negotiating the injunction, LimeWire had staff add remote shutdown of gnutella access and file transfers as some users installed affected versions. When the injunction came into force versions later than 5.5.10 left the network or were disabled as users started them.

On November 9, 2010, LimeWire was resurrected by a secret team of developers and dubbed Limewire Pirate Edition. It was based on LimeWire 5.6 BETA. This version had its server dependencies removed and all the PRO features enabled for free.*