Poor PearLyrics

So this is why my iTunes Lyrics Widget never worked...

PearLyrics still offline -- shame on Warner Chappell.
Remember the sad saga of PearLyrics -- the iTunes helper app that acted like a specialized web browser, searching the internet for song lyrics while you play music in iTunes?
Walter Ritter, the Austrian tech researcher who coded it in his spare time for fun, received a forceful cease-and-desist letter in December from music publisher Warner/Chappell. They demanded he take the popular app offline, and cc'd Apple, insisting they also remove links to the software from apple.com.

Link to story on boingboing with more links.