Good riddance. I'd say two-thirds of the last few computers I've had to fix for friends or relatives involved malware from LimeWire.

for the time it took them to take out limewire, 100 brand new p2p networks emerged.

can the labels start looking to the future yet?

It seems that you slightly misunderstand the situation (and the article is certainly misleading on "Popular file-sharing website LimeWire" part). Limewire is not a network, it is a piece of software, which provides access to networks using Gnutella and BitTorrent protocols.

As LimeWire is (was?) distributed under GNU GPL, I'm particularly curious about effects of this ruling on any forks.