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Finally after one year of announcing that it will be opening its own online music store, Limewire has fulfilled its promise. Everybody’s once favorite peer-to-peer file sharing application joined the online music industry with its very own online music store. Limewire is making available its catalog of around 500,000 DRM-free music file for download at a price of $.99 per single track, similar to the price of many other online music stores today.

For users who want to download more than one music track, Limewire is also offering a 25 download per month package for $9.99, a 50 download for $14.99 and a 75 download for $19.99. So if you think you will be downloading full albums, you might as well take some of these packages. Those packages would save you some more money, which you could then spend on other digital tracks. Digital music available in the Limewire store is encoded at 256kbps and can be played on any media player since its DRM-free.

Currently in beta stage, the Limewire store is not connected with the LimeWire Basic or Limewire PRO interface, which are Limewire’s peer-to-peer file sharing application. So, users are assured that the music that they are buying is of high-quality and came from the legitimate source. Although Limewire is planning to introduce some kind of integration between the Limewire Music Store and the Limewire peer-to-peer application, I think it is no longer necessary if Limewire wants to stop music piracy on the web. Hopefully, Limewire just leave its two products as separate entities from each other.
The Limewire Store is currently available for the U.S. digital music consumers but Limewire promises to make the online store available to other countries later on.

Via [Download Squad] Via [P2P Blog]