It's back: LimeWire Pirate Edition debuts

Or call the game publishers and ask for another to be sent out? I have a friend who lost his Crysis Disc, was pissed off and spoke to someone and they used his license key to give him a download version, they used the DRM system so if he ever found his disc it wouldn't be usable.

At the end of the day, if you've paid £40+ on a game (license, since at the end of the day thats what you pay for) I would expect them to support me.

Some people don't seem to realise you don't actually need a justification for piracy. Some people are going to have moral qualms about it, others (probably the majority) won't. You can argue why piracy is wrong and evil all you want, but ultimately morality is a subjective argument, not a physical constant. The facts are the Internet, p2p, DRM cracking, all exist and thus far combating it with legal and technological measures has proven completely futile and a waste of resources on the part of copyright holders.

If industry really want to maximise profits then they need to concentrate on boosting sales through competitive pricing and availability (considering piracy a competitor rather than something they can just make go away - they can't), and accept the fact that things will never ever go back to how they were pre-Internet, when they held strong control over their IP.

Be sure to not allow your players to look for album art when playing. Get a better firewall. This is how they determine where you are. WMP fail.

Such a good post until this sentence.

Unfortunately, as some others here have hinted at, its DRM thats the relevant and justifiable excuse for downloading modified or backup copies of your purchased content. From companies taking down licensing servers to limiting resale to restricting device access, there's many forms of DRM that prevent everyone from LEGALLY using their purchased products that can only be resolved by DRM circumvented products.

This is hilarious

Lol. Why would any1 want to ress this?

This, I worry, will fuel a resurgence of infected computers, which hurts everyone. Most of us who visit TechSpot are savvy enough to update our anti-virus software and don't randomly download stuff from shady websites. However, most computer users aren't like us. They probably have an outdated antivirus program, or no antivirus program at all.

I bet this has even more spyware and trojans than before.

It's not surprising that it appeared on the web again.
BTW is it just me or does the 1b $ fine seem a bit too much? It's not like they even have close to that amount to pay them.

..or if you can't stand the greedy higherups.

You can never stop pirates.

I find it quite ironic that the pirated version is the version with no viruses, Lol.

Limewire has always been full of viruses, I have not used it in years and will never use it again.

Not a very smart one, but funny.

Virus after Virus from the original Limewire... I can't imagine how 'sick' this Limewire is going to be; oh wait, very.

I will stick to other means of attaining data.

Along with free stuffs comes good blessings

I am of two minds about this. First off, pirating leads to drugs, drugs lead to aliens, aliens lead to probing...where was I going with this?? Oh yes Pirates are bad because they probe...wait that isn't right?!

I use torrents to do the following:
A. Download shows that are already free in the states that I cannot watch because I am not in the states.

B. See A.

Other than that I don't have much reason to "pirate" per se. However, the lengths the ACCC go to stop people pirating only make them look like the fools they are. By "shutting down" limewire, all that has been accomplished is a better tool to download content from...wow brilliant piece of work. Maybe we should shut down Microsoft, and see an open source, more stable, less prone to BSODs Windows!

Some of us are willing to pay but we can not get the opportunity. Nobody thinks anybody in Africa can buy anything. So every store 'is not available in your region' so you want the music, buy the whole album at 20 dollars just to get the one song you like, or just pirate.

A resurgence? No, because personal computers are not infected any more than they were last year. Many viruses come from simple web surfing. P2P is not responsible for that. Whether or not a new LimeWire is released, won't make people any more or any less stupid.