Limewire Question

[Shibby]

How is it that it stays active and all these other music downloads site have to charge for service?

[blm]

cuz it sucks, lol

[Shibby]

Well I guess if you really know what it's all about maybe, but I don't have any problems finding songs.

[gamahooch]

Me either. BUt then again some of the more obscure things I find difficult to locate. Good question as to how they are staying under the RAA radar.

[Tinfish]

i am not sure either. have wondered for a while. my wife insists that i will be part of the group that gets in trouble because of the close to 3000 songs that i have ripped from limewire.

[ROCKILLER]

morpheus is good too. It has more stuff and I think somehow it has all or some of the files from limewire plus its own. I got stuff from there and it said that it was from limewire.

[beefcake]

Originally Posted by Tinfish

i am not sure either. have wondered for a while. my wife insists that i will be part of the group that gets in trouble because of the close to 3000 songs that i have ripped from limewire.

Yea, that's a lot. Probably good time for you to change internet providers and sign up under someone else's name.

[JUICE]

i got 2 questions for this cause i too got LimeWire. Sorry Shibby, since it was a Limewire thread I thought of adding it to this one to not create another one.

1). everytime im downloading a song, lets say im downloading like 6-7 songs, then all of a sudden my FIREWALL thing pops out saying like : tx.rr.com Attack. Another one that says your computer had been attacked DDos (denied service).

2). Also, before i had like 3k songs on it but i had to restore the whole thing cause of some virus that messed it up. I Just re-started downloading again, im pretty close to 600 songs now. If every week or 3 days, i change them to another folder can they still detect them. ON MY THINg I put not to share any music and dont have files on the thing to share.

I ask cause my sisters friend's cousin recieved a lawsuit thing about 2 years ago. I dont know if its true but fuck wouldnt want that.

[beefcake]

Originally Posted by JUICE

2). Also, before i had like 3k songs on it but i had to restore the whole thing cause of some virus that messed it up. I Just re-started downloading again, im pretty close to 600 songs now. If every week or 3 days, i change them to another folder can they still detect them. ON MY THINg I put not to share any music and dont have files on the thing to share.

I ask cause my sisters friend's cousin recieved a lawsuit thing about 2 years ago. I dont know if its true but fuck wouldnt want that.

I don't think they can see the files you have on your computer, but they can see all of your download history. Everything you do is being watched.

[JUICE]

Originally Posted by beefcake

but they can see all of your download history. Everything you do is being watched.

like lets say they have busted people in the past and revent. Do those people get busted because they are sharing or can they adjust setting to not share and still get canned.

[beefcake]

Originally Posted by JUICE

like lets say they have busted people in the past and revent. Do those people get busted because they are sharing or can they adjust setting to not share and still get canned.

Doesn't matter if they're sharing or not, it's all about whether they are downloading. They were busted because they were downloading not because of sharing. It's only ok to download if you already own or have paid for the material that you're getting.

[JUICE]

Originally Posted by beefcake

Doesn't matter if they're sharing or not, it's all about whether they are downloading. They were busted because they were downloading not because of sharing. It's only ok to download if you already own or have paid for the material that you're getting.

yeah thats what i didnt understand. So either way ur screwed.

Now that i hear that i rather pay to download music.

[beefcake]

Originally Posted by JUICE

yeah thats what i didnt understand. So either way ur screwed.

Now that i hear that i rather pay to download music.

Yup, after a while, all them downloads you do pile up. You lose track and then all of a sudden, you're on the FCC's list. Might as well just pay the $15 per month for unlimited downloads. It's like buying 1 cd a month, but getting a bunch more songs.

[redsquirrel]

Then why isn't there some type of disclaimer or something on the website?? And why wouldn't it be shut down like the Napsters of the world??? Their whole appeal is that it's "shared music". Therefore, I thought it's just a bunch of peeps with all kinds of different songs on their computer allowing others to download.

[blm]

Originally Posted by Shibby

Well I guess if you really know what it's all about maybe, but I don't have any problems finding songs.

There is just too many corrupt and/or bad files on those types of P2P's

[rude]

I have no problems with limewire.

[rado]

I've never had a problem with it, I love it.

[iceberg]

I do not know if this is true, but I heard this from a friend.
Limewire is ran through multiple frewalls, making it hard to locate the source, that is why it has not been shut down yet.

[blm]

You have NEVER had one file that was not the file it was labeled as or any files w/noise (such as beeps or crackling)?

I use Limewire if there is a single song I can't find through torrent, but other than that I use strictly torrents. I've dl'd nearly 120Gb and have not had one noisey, mislabeled, or corrupt file.

If you're dl'ing large quantities of files...especially movies, software, or full cd's, torrents are the only way to go. It's not as cut and dry as LImewire or other P2P's but its multitudes more efficient.

[beefcake]

Originally Posted by redsquirrel

Then why isn't there some type of disclaimer or something on the website?? And why wouldn't it be shut down like the Napsters of the world??? Their whole appeal is that it's "shared music". Therefore, I thought it's just a bunch of peeps with all kinds of different songs on their computer allowing others to download.

I don't know why they don't state all of that, but they should. I think they aren't shut down because they are just providing the software in which to use p2p sharing, I think napster kept all the songs and stuff in their own database once it was downloaded from other peers, so therefore they were providing the copyrighted material, instead of just the peers. The same kind of goes for bittorrent, you can't shut isohunt or torrentspy down, they just provide the means for you to hook up with other people and then download from there. It's not all totally illegal, if you've already paid for whatever you're downloading. Like if you own the faith hill cd, you can download those songs from someone.

[beefcake]

Originally Posted by blm

You have NEVER had one file that was not the file it was labeled as or any files w/noise (such as beeps or crackling)?

I use Limewire if there is a single song I can't find through torrent, but other than that I use strictly torrents. I've dl'd nearly 120Mb and have not had one noisey, mislabeled, or corrupt file.

If you're dl'ing large quantities of files...especially movies, software, or full cd's, torrents are the only way to go. It's not as cut and dry as LImewire or other P2P's but its multitudes more efficient.

I've found that movies and video games usually end up being corrupt with bittorrent.

[blm]

Originally Posted by beefcake

I've found that movies and video games usually end up being corrupt with bittorrent.

WOW! I honestly have never had one bad file.

[beefcake]

Originally Posted by blm

WOW! I honestly have never had one bad file.

Oh, I didn't most of the time, just every once in a while. It may also be my computer. Sometimes it shuts down all of a sudden and that may be messing up the download in between. I hate the guys that put passwords on their zip files though.

[Sev408]

limewire stays free cause they just moved their servers to Switzerland.


and i hate those songs that play and halfway through it turns to static and a loud beeping. it hurts my ears so much.