The Whetstone/ Cochise Lucas

By Melissa Boyd (Whetstone Staff Writer)

Wesley College has had a No Lime Wire policy outlined in the student handbook.

Now, the United States has a No Lime Wire Policy after the courts put a permanent ban on the website.

Taken to federal court by 13 record labels and the Recording Industry Association of America, the battle on copyright infringement ended Oct. 26.

Last month, Lime Wire’s website said, “This is an official notice that Lime Wire is under a court-ordered injunction to stop distributing and supporting its filing-sharing software. Downloading or sharing copyrighted content without authorization is illegal.”

Record labels who sued the website claimed that their companies and clients were performing poorly because of free illegal downloading.

Mark Gorton, founder of Lime Wire, neither denied nor confirmed the claims made against them but are proposing a “new music service.”

Employees of the company were laid off and the website was shut down.

The case will resume in January to decide on what fines Lime Wire will have to pay.

These are estimated at $1 billion.

In Wesley’s community standards, Lime Wire, Ares, Torrents and other illegal download sites are not allowed.

If a student is found using these websites, it “may result in network access in being revoked, which will require the equipment be brought to the Information Systems Dept.”