the hell, no legal backing for this crap because Limewire does not host any files. Down with the RIAA, they operate under no rules so THEY are the pirates.
People still use Limewire? All they did was use the source code from Frostwire and made it a paid program. Btw you should try Frostwire free and open source
Sorry for being late to the scene, but how is limewire basic, pro or whatever different from bit torrent or utorrent.
BitTorrent works by having everyone share. Even if they don't have the full file, they'll share what they do have currently. So this is basically the best way to share files with A LOT of people since everyone is taking the burden of sharing the file. So for example if I download 1/2 a file from a guy who has the full file, then you can come in and download from me. So say you've downloaded 1/4 of the file, some new person can come in and download up to a 1/4 of the file from you.
I know tons of people still using Limewire. This is bound to force more over to bit torrent. I was always amazed at how long limeWire stayed open. Nevertheless I can not see how using OLD versions of any software for the gnutella network wont work. There is no central disturbutor like Napster had, I see no reasons why older programs can not still work on that network.
Think the biggest reason why they went after Limewire was because if people wanted to use the "Pro" version they had to pay for it. Most of all the others are open source/free.
Could be. In fact, in recent months, on installation of bittorrent (use that only), after you open and close (or whatever order), and open again, there is a message like `this is free. if you have paid for it, you have been scammed'. Message on these lines after installation. By the way, is bit torrent 7.0 any good. I have not been using utorrent because of that bandwidth test. Somehow it slows down my downloads. Bittorrent 7.0 also by default does that (not bittorrent 6.4). That is why I continue to use bittorrent 6.4 and not 7.0
I don not want to go off topic, but utorrent goes slow for me only because of that default bandwidth test on install. Maybe I am not configuring it properly. I stay in Delhi, India. Bittorrent 6.4 has bandwidth test as optional. I just install and run 6.4. Bit torrent 7.0 runs that test and in one install, I found that it slowed downloads.
Yeah i think a lot depends on your location. But i'm glad Limewire got kicked to the curb. Pathetic they wanted to charge people for a "Pro" version when there are other free and better programs. I seriously think that if Limewire was not charging people then it would have taken much longer for something like this to come to pass. Either way it's a sad day for the P2P community.
Not that sad since limewire wasn't half as good as most p2p programs I know 90% of my friends used it for music where they paid for limewire pro lol