“the file sharing act was launched by chairman towns in 2009, this act prohibited the use of applications that allowed individuals to share federal information amongst one another. on the other hand, only specific file sharing application were made available to federal computers” (united states.congress.house). in 2009, the pirate bay trial ended in a guilty verdict for the primary founders of the tracker. the decision was appealed, leading to a second guilty verdict in november 2010. in october 2010, limewire was forced to shut down following a court order in "arista records llc v. lime group llc" but the gnutella network remains active through open source clients like frostwire and gtk-gnutella. furthermore, multi-protocol file sharing software such as mldonkey and shareaza adapted in order to support all the major file sharing protocols, so users no longer had to install and configure multiple file sharing programs.