WinMX shut down following RIAA requests

September 23, 2005

The network run by the program, 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 networks.