This past Tuesday, the peer-to-peer file-sharing program Limewire underwent scrutiny in court. Judge Kimba M. Wood of the U.S. District court in Manhattan ruled that the file-sharing service was liable for copyright infringement, and furthermore that the program itself encouraged copyright infringement. Limewire has been around since the year 2000, founded just one year before Napster was shut down, and surprisingly, continued to operate, with no changes in file-filtering practices, even after the Supreme Court Grokster case, in which the file-sharing program Grokster was found to be guilty of encouraging file-sharing, and was forced to shut down. It's somewhat odd that Limewire has continued to operate in a similar manner to Grokster, even since 2005, and had managed to avoid the same fate for so long…until now. In this past Tuesday's case, the RIAA said it is seeking up to $150,000 per copyright violation, and found through a random sample of 1800 files, that 93% of these files infringed upon copyright. A hearing is scheduled for June 1st, during which actual damages will be discussed, and we'll find out what the future looks like for Limewire, and the many individuals who use it.