Judge Kimba Wood issued an injunction that forces LimeWire to close off "the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality, and/or all functionality" following a protracted series of cases and appeals in its court battle with RIAA dating back to August 2006.

In May this year, LimeWire was found guilty of facilitating mass copyright infringement. In the case, it was claimed that 93% of traffic on LimeWire was made up of infringing content. The LimeWire software had been ...