So farewell then, Aimster

Aimster, more recently known as Madster, is to fall silent in the next few days after a court ruling in the US went quite resoundingly against it. Like file-swapping pioneer Napster, Madster failed to persuade a judge that there was nothing they could do about those pesky users were breaking the law on its service. Indeed, the case couldn't have gone much worse for Madster. "[The] defendants manage to do everything but actually steal the music off the store shelf and hand it to Aimster's users," wrote Judge Marvin Aspen in his findings, reports CNET News.com.