That’s very interesting to note. I imagine that the popularity of the iPod led a lot of new people to Limewire before the iTunes Store and Spotify took off, pushing its true peak to be a lot later than most (including myself) might recall.
The “Don’t steal music” label on every new iPod might as well have been a Limewire ad.
We had an internal URL for a graph of daily sales. Sales definitely went up every time the major record labels put out a press release that they were planning to sue because of the amount of music available.
KMag|5 years ago