system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How did LimeWire get away with being known as the easiest way to pirate media and yet they continued to make money?
gpt
Bill Clinton passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It protects websites from legal repercussions from piracy. Nothing illegal was hosted on Limewire's servers, it was just users sharing mp3's with each other. 

The copyright owner must instead go after the individual users with lawsuits. In this way the establishment diabolically pitted artists against their fans. Metallica tried going after Napster users and faced a massive backlash because of it.