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Blockbuster Canada Closing 140 Stores

Blockbuster Canada will be closing 140 stores this month.

Liquidation sales will begin at the target locations on May 27th and the new owner of the chain is attempting to retain the Blockbuster trademark and software for the remaining 260 locations.

Limewire Closing

An injunction to cease P2P operations has been issued to Limewire on the 26th of October, 2010.

The company has stopped offering downloads of their software via their web site.

(UPDATE : The original site on which the injunction was hosted is gone but thanks to Simon Grant you’ll find a replacement source for the injunction by clicking on the above link. And for good measure, here is another source, also in PDF format)