Regular LimeWire users don't have access to tech support, relying instead on message boards and forums. The most common problem with LimeWire is a failure to connect to the Gnutella Network.
Here are a few different ways to figure out whether or not you're connected to the network:. Connectivity problems can be caused by several factors, which you should check in the following order:. For those who only want to download non-copyright material, you have the option we mentioned before of filtering any content already on LimeWire's list of copyright files.
Another legal tip is to only search for files with an open license. When you search for audio, for example, there's an option to show songs carrying the freely distributed Creative Commons or Weedshare licenses. Another common complaint is that files download too slow. LimeWire's answer is that a file can't download any faster than the maximum bandwidth of either the uploader or the downloader.
If you have broadband, but the person you're downloading from has dial-up, the file's going to download at dial-up speed.
Also, if you're downloading more than one file at a time, or the host computer is uploading more than one file at a time, that's going to put a strain on bandwidth as well. The best tip for speeding up downloads is to only choose files from high-bandwidth hosts and preferably more than one host.
One of the features of p2p networks like Gnutella is that they can download pieces of the same file from many different hosts at once and reassemble the whole file on the downloader's computer. Downloading a song from eight high-bandwidth hosts should take less than 30 seconds.
If that doesn't help, you could always upgrade to LimeWire Pro, which promises faster download rates, or try one of the many third-party applications that claim to do the same. LimeWire, the software application, is completely legal. What many people do with LimeWire -- namely downloading and distributing copyright material -- isn't legal. LimeWire's defense is that its software is a tool. Like any other tool, its use is dependent on the users.
The same hammer that helps build a house can be used to break the back window and rob it. The person who sells the hammer can't be held responsible for how it's used. In August , several large record companies sued LimeWire for encouraging Internet piracy. As of this writing, the case against LimeWire is still pending. Even if LimeWire is found not guilty, its users are still vulnerable. The accused individuals receive a letter from the RIAA's lawyers with a settlement offer to avoid going to court.
The individuals are identified by their IP addresses. Even with the RIAA's legal assault on software companies and individuals, the number of active worldwide file-sharers continues to grow. And if LimeWire gets shut down tomorrow, there are already dozens of other programs poised to take its place.
LimeWire responds to these concerns by educating users on how to protect themselves and their children from accidentally sharing or downloading the wrong files. Next up is LimeSpot, a new online social network , now in beta version. LimeSpot, like other online communities, will allow users to create a personal profile page, host blogs, write wikis and make "friends" with other LimeSpot users. Plans for the online store, which isn't yet operational, include buying songs directly from LimeWire search results, plus a standalone LimeWire Store Web site.
Establishing a legal online store could be a way to stay alive if LimeWire loses its copyright infringement lawsuit with the RIAA [source: Cnet].
For now, LimeWire still appears to be concentrating on improving its p2p service and offering more features like BitTorrent support. We hope this HowStuffWorks article helped you understand more about how LimeWire software works and the controversy around p2p file-sharing.
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Once the installation is complete, you'll enter the Setup Wizard. Indicate the folders you wish to share with the Gnutella network. You have the option of letting LimeWire search your hard drive for all media files. Signatures may be used as long as they are not offensive or sexually explicit or used for commercial advertising. Commercial weblinks cannot be used under any circumstances and will result in an immediate ban.
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We hope your visit is helpful and mutually beneficial to the entire community. March 1st, How much hardrive space does limewire take?
LimeWire itself doesn't take up much space about Now the files that you download with LimeWire could be a different story. The average music file is about 4.
And software and Games can be anywhere from 5MB to 5GB so you see it all depends on how you use LimeWire as to how much space it takes. As far as LimeWire Being safe it is only as safe as the person using it. There are Virus and spyware files on the Gnutella net but if you do a little reading and educate yourself before using it is very safe. And having a MAC will help in the Virus department.
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Add Thread to del. User Name. Remember Me? Castro: [The Bill Clinton] sample was the original rickroll. It taught us to keep vigilant and make sure that the file size of what we were downloading was correct. Castro: There was also a lot of porn, like, a lot.
And of course, with porn, comes some fucked-up shit. One study by the U. Castro: It was even reported that out of randomly downloaded files on LimeWire , 37 of them contained malware. If you were downloading content from the program, chances are you probably had a handful of viruses on your computer.
Nobody cared. It was a small price to pay for the infinite amount of music at your disposal. Everything else we were largely laissez-faire about.
In our view, it was actually a compelling argument for our new music service. Sometimes you take a chance and hope for no viruses. Klee: Apart from the viruses and smut, there were always rumors that users would one day be dragged into court over this unrepentant piracy.
Jones: Yeah, we had a vague sense that our galactic-scale larceny was probably some kind of violation of a university honor code or regulation or law, but no one had actually explicitly said anything about not doing it. There were just thick blue ethernet cables for everyone and a big shrug from all authority figures, like some kind of Oklahoma land-run.
It was glorious. I filed for bankruptcy years ago; the RIAA never got a dime from me, while I — hopefully — cost them millions of dollars to litigate me. It felt very unfair, but I have the satisfaction of knowing they were more hurt by the lawsuit than I was.
Castro: The music industry was pissed, and someone needed to hang for it. Profit for albums kept plummeting, with the only program helping them being the iTunes shop, which was released three years after the birth of LimeWire. File-sharing changed the entire music industry as a whole, and nobody knew what the fuck to do.
So companies did what companies do at a time of crisis. They sued. LimeWire allowed us to get around a lot of those limitations and made distribution particularly straightforward.
That trained the legal eyes of the media dinosaurs on us, leading to our ultimate demise. In , LimeWire reportedly had 4 million active users a day , and was well on its way to being downloaded million times. The company itself was extremely profitable, thanks to the small percentage of users who opted for the paid service. It was just Mark [Gorton], 35 other engineers and next to no corporate structure. I called it Engineering Eden — it was well-funded, and led by a former engineer.
At that point, there was a low, single-digit percentage of their users converting to paid users, but most of the users were free, so it was a very simple model to administer. Bowser: We were making money through ads and the higher support tier from LimeWire Pro. DiRe: But the strategy pivoted to making friends with the music labels, so we needed to staff up with lawyers [and] marketing people.
Tan: By , we were largely finished with Grapevine [the Spotify-esque subscription service]. It was up and running, but the content was mostly indie with a few very small labels on there. DiRe: We were basically building what would turn into a Spotify.
From what I understand, within the music industry, there was a battle between the younger, digital side who saw the future of their industry, and the legal teams who just saw the pain of the past.
You never own music, you simply buy a license to consume that music at that moment. Next year, when you want to listen to that same song, I want you to pay us again. Thirty years from now, when your grandchildren want to listen to that Madonna song, I want them to pay us.
You will never own this music, you only buy a temporary right to listen to that music at that moment, nothing more. We were developing it just ahead of Spotify getting its U. So that was sad. It was a little bit like [ trombone noises ]. Searle, two months and 10 days before being shut down by a federal judge: We now have more employees, more resources and more users than ever before.
I firmly believe the best is yet to come! DiRe: The possibility of being extinguished was right there, and the possibility of doing something huge, pioneering and groundbreaking was right there too. But we were outgunned. The record labels were so spiteful, they not only wanted us closed, they demanded that we destroy the code. Things started to cut against us, and we had to do layoffs.
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