WinMX shut down following RIAA requests
{{date|September 23, 2005}}
[[Image:Wmxlogo.jpg|right|WinMX Logo]]

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The network run by the {{w|file sharing}} program {{w|WinMX}}, as well as the WinMX homepage, has become the first casualty of a {{w|Recording Industry Association of America}} (RIAA) crackdown on file-sharing programs.

In mid-September, the RIAA sent Frontcode Technologies a {{w|cease and desist}} letter asking them to implement filters to make it impossible for users to download copyrighted material from their site, or shut down. Frontcode seems to have shut down the network for now. 

Earlier this year, the [[U.S.]] [[U.S. Supreme Court|Supreme Court]] decided that maintainers of a network can be held responsible to the content shared on {{w|Peer-to-peer|P2P}} networks.

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== Sources ==
*{{source|url=http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/5002/winmx_down.html
|title=WinMX Shut Down
|author=Richard Menta
|pub=MP3 Newswire
|date=September 21, 2005}}

*{{source|url=http://today.reuters.com/business/newsArticle.aspx?type=technology&storyID=nN21602219
|title=P2P music sites closing doors in legal fallout
|author=Sue Zeidler & Eric Auchard
|pub=Reuters
|date=September 22, 2005}}

*{{source|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4272164.stm
|title= Anti-music swapping tool launched
|author=
|pub=BBC News Online
|date=September 22, 2005}}

== External links ==
* WinMX homepage ([https://web.archive.org/web/20041130093701/http://www.winmx.com/ archive])

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The network run by the WinMX, as well as the WinMX homepage, has become the first casualty of a  (RIAA) crackdown on file-sharing programs.

In mid-September, the RIAA sent Frontcode Technologies a  letter asking them to implement filters to make it impossible for users to download copyrighted material from their site, or shut down. Frontcode seems to have shut down the network for now. 

Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that maintainers of a network can be held responsible to the content shared on P2P networks.


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