In a survey recently conducted by Thumbplay, 70% of respondents reported that they have stopped using Peer-to-Peer P2P services since engaging Thumbplay Music. Thumbplay Music, which works on numerous devices across all major smartphone platforms in the U.S., is one of the most widely-available cloud-based streaming music services in the U.S. More than 500,000 people have downloaded Thumbplay Music to date; nearly 70% are male and the largest user group for the service is 25 – 34-years-old, followed closely by 35 – 44-year-olds. Thumbplays popular, feature-rich app with more than 10 million songs has been publicly available on Android, Apple and BlackBerry smartphone platforms since June 2010. It is also available for PCs/Macs.

A New York judge ordered LimeWire to stop distributing its file-sharing software, agreeing with the plaintiffs that LimeWire’s service is used “overwhelmingly for infringement.”

Judge Wood of U.S. District Court in Manhattan said that LimeWire “intentionally encouraged direct infringement” by users of its site, and also “marketed itself to Napster users, who were known copyright infringers.

The LimeWire site shut down its service Wednesday, displaying only a legal notice announcing that that company “is under a court-ordered injunction to stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing software.” Nonetheless, the company insisted that it has not been permanently put out of business.