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Digital
LimeWire still working on new and legit cloud-based service
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 16 July 2010
The record industry might be preparing its last big swoop against the evil beast that is LimeWire – expect a dramatic torpedo fired to its very heart, causing gallons of green sticky ooze, several billion carelessly shared tedious pop songs and a dangerous cloud of binary code to explode above your heads – but the Lime Group is still busy hiring people to work on plans to launch a new legit ‘cloud-based’ digital music flim flam.
It’s no secret that LimeWire has been developing legit digital music offerings for a while now, the problem being that none of the majors and few of the big indies seem all that keen in going into business with an organisation they’ve placed just this side of the Third Reich in the evil stakes for much of the last decade.
But, despite the major music companies circling above, getting ready to injunct LimeWire off the net, and bankrupt its business and founder, press statements from Team Lime insist talks are ongoing with the labels regarding them licensing their music to the company’s new digital services, including one that will combine MP3tunes-style anytime anywhere access to a user’s record collection with a subscription-based Spotify-style streaming service.
Confirming the company was continuing to recruit new staff, LimeWire CEO George Searle told Digital Music News this week: “We have always valued technological innovation and creativity, and we continue to grow our team to include more people that share these values”.
Of course, given the size of their database, there is an argument that the major labels and publishers should collaborate with LimeWire in any effort to replace its illegal P2P network with something licensed and consumer-friendly.
But you just can’t help feeling that any future profits such a deal might generate for the labels isn’t as valuable to record company bosses as the smug satisfaction they’ll feel when the Lime operation is finally shut down, and its founder Mark Gorton bankrupted into oblivion, left to limp through the rest of time living on nothing but file-shared dust. Well, that and the ten million stashed away in that family trust.
