LimeWire shuts down P2P service, looks to future

[nismo91]

i quit using LimeWire long time ago, probably 3 years back. Torrents are 'cleaner', and have many FLACs files. Simple google or 4shared search also usually gets me things that I want, also faster.

 

[Basher]

I haven't used this terrible program for many, many years. The only thing I had ever found Limewire to be good for was music. I turned to Yahoo Music a long time ago, and eventually had them swap me over to Rhapsody. I pay $6 a month for their highest plan and can't complain a bit.

 

[ViNCiLiCiouS]

I used to use Limewire back in middle school/early high school (about 4-5 years ago). In its defense, I actually liked it for a while. It was convenient, had good selection. Everyone talked about viruses, but I never seemed to have got one.

Of course I have since moved to torrents, mainly because of the far greater quality control. But I remember torrents being rather slow in the past, it is usually not the case anymore.

 

[Wendig0]

Limewire was like the best little *****house in Texas (The Chicken Ranch), only they weren't that great, it wasn't nearly as fun, you would get a bad case of gonorrhea every time you went, and they weren't in Texas.

Come to think of it, going to Limewire to download p2p was more like going down to the corner of 110th st. and Central Park West, rather than The Chicken Ranch, and instead of gonorrhea you get AIDS. /memories

 

[edison5do]

windmill007 said:
One word Frostwire. Almost everyone in the know has made the switch. And I'm sure there will be many more backup applications in the works. Seriously..>What else would kids use. People say it's garbage but u look on any PC with kids and they all use it because it's easy. There is no alternative out there that works as well or well known that I know of.

Ares Galaxy is another option, but its not so popular, and considerably less malware on there.

 

[HaMsTeYr]

Limewire... P2P softwares like that seems like yesterday's technology... or at least the way people pirate. On the other hand, there's still IRC and Torrents.

I remember using Limewire when I was in highschool, and you'd be damned if you found something with decent quality in it... That and trying to get a whole album was a pain in the ***. >_> (yes i know its considered pirating... now... )

Still, Loss of limewire doesn't seem anything important to say the least. They can disappear and never come back, and that is probably whats going to happen, die off like Kazaa :X

 

[ColdFusion1990]

I also got rid of LimeWire a while back, happy torrent user

 

[jetkami]

Maybe the internet will get faster now without all those machines downloading virus fill crap now. Huraah Huraah!

 

[pyari]

the bad thing of P2P tools is that u don't know what u r downloading......seeder may fool you all the way......

 

[sMILEY4ever]

I never liked LimeWire so I don't really care they got shutdown. I care about RIAA sueing individuals.

 

[j05hh]

I remember back on the day when I used Napster then switched to limewire then to frostwire, now its nothing but torrents, good ridins limewire. I'm sure more will follow suit, just a matter of time.

 

[captaincranky]

LimeWire shuts down P2P service, looks to future

And what future would that be? Limewire's operators making license plates?

 

[zogo]

Yeah, it's about time. Limewire is full of viruses. Practically you are searching through viruses, not through music. There are far better alternatives, like torrents. So why even bother with limewire anymore. I think nobody is going to miss it

 

[Cryptopsy]

Limewire really last longer than its competitor and it is still good that it get closed. There was so many virus and malware shared on with this software - but I guess its not because of Limewire but because of P2P.

We most remember, P2P is a legal activity, but shared files may be licensed to NOT share them. It's like buying guns - you can buy guns but you can't kill people with it. Thats how I see P2P and illegal shared files.

 

[captaincranky]

Limewire really last longer than its competitor and it is still good that it get closed. There was so many virus and malware shared on with this software - but I guess its not because of Limewire but because of P2P.

We most remember, P2P is a legal activity, but shared files may be licensed to NOT share them. It's like buying guns - you can buy guns but you can't kill people with it. Thats how I see P2P and illegal shared files.

Indeed....! "Guns don't kill copyrights, people do".....! :haha:

 

[ChrisG683]

Sometimes I wonder why they continued to produce Limewire, noone likes it, and it's filled with junk. What was their motivation?

 

[RebelFlag]

stensland said:
I just don't get it, fighting internet piracy in such a manner is about as effective as the war on drugs.
You can't really make downloading legal like you could with things like marijuana where you can physically control the substance, but you can make the media out there more widely available at lower costs.

I agree with the comparison between the war on drugs and internet piracy, but not with the example used. One of the issues the people who are trying to legalize marijuana are running into is that it is very difficult to control the product. It can be grown almost anywhere. The reason alcohol is legal is because the government can control the production and tax the product, which would be very difficult to do with marijuana because of the ease with which it can be grown.

The key to cutting down on internet piracy is to give people a quality product at a reasonable price, and without all of the DRM restrictions. If you offer a piece of software at a reasonable price, and allow it to be easily backed up, or re-downloaded it in the event of a hardware failure, or upgrading to a new PC, more people will buy it. There are always going to be people who will illegally download software, but it is less likely if people feel they are getting a fair value.

 

[oasis789]

back in the day it was napster, then kazaa, now limewire... who's next? emule?

 

[captaincranky]

This is nonsense, plain and simple;

The key to cutting down on internet piracy is to give people a quality product at a reasonable price, and without all of the DRM restrictions. If you offer a piece of software at a reasonable price, and allow it to be easily backed up, or re-downloaded it in the event of a hardware failure, or upgrading to a new PC, more people will buy it. There are always going to be people who will illegally download software, but it is less likely if people feel they are getting a fair value.

Once upon a time, almost all software was installed with a serial number only, which the companies supplied with the packing.

Furthermore, once upon a time, this installation discs contained NO DRM!

Then people copied it at will, and installed in as many computers as they saw fit, and after wards gave copies to all their friends.

So then, it seems we've brought the DRM on ourselves.

So now, why don't you rethink this idealistic b**s***, or at least realize you're reinventing what was several years ago! It's certainly not a new idea.

And incidentally, people never ever think that a product is worth the price being asked for it!

 

[TorturedChaos]

LimeWire was nice if you wanted just one song from an album, instead of torrenting the whole CD. I used to use it a lot several years back, and yes there were a lot of files full of viruses, but it didn't take a genius to pick the legit files from the fake virus ones (music file ending in .exe...come on).

But I'm really not all the sad about seeing it go, from what I hear it kept getting worse and worse for viruses. As several others have stated hopefully this will cut down on the calls from friends and relatives who infected their computer with something via LimeWire .

 

[ElDaFree]

I think it has almost been over a decade since I used Limewire ^_^ Switch to Bittorrent was an easy one.

 

[Mike]

In reporting on this story I repeatedly took out the term "virus-ridden." You guys make me wish I had left it in, but I was trying to cover the story, not the experience of using LimeWire.

Like many of you, LimeWire for me was a stepping stone that I was happy to leave behind. But I know many a user (many of them with little computer experience) who made their first downloads with LimeWire, which to me does mark this as a bit of an occasion. Not that it's anything I'd ever go back to.

 

[Timonius]

It's about time. Almost every computer I've dealt with that had viruses had limewire installed and the users used it a lot. Coincidence? I tell them they need to ditch Limewire for something more 'modern' and make sure everything they download from Limewire is scanned.

 

[captaincranky]

As I've never used Lime wire, forgive this possibly stupid question, "other than P2P, exactly what "services" did Limewire have"? Oh wait, there was the free malware. Are they going to keep that portion of the service up and running?

I'm still looking forward to license plates made by their execs......

 

[klepto12]

OH the many times ive had to clean computers because of limewire i say good riddance and goodbye im not saying all p2p is bad just seems like an abnormal amount of viruses and spyware come from limewire.