LimeWire Alternatives See Huge Increase in Downloads

Ernesto
October 31, 2010
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A few days after LimeWire shut down nearly all alternative file-sharing applications report a massive increase in downloads, most likely from LimeWire refugees. On the one hand the developers of LimeWire’s competitors are pleased with the additional users, but some of them are also slightly worried about what the RIAA’s next move will be.

limewire alternatives LimeWire lost its case with the RIAA earlier this week, with the New York District Court demanding that LimeWire shut down its entire operation.

As a result of this verdict, millions of LimeWire users had to find an alternative download client, resulting in a healthy boost in downloads for a variety of P2P applications.

Over the past days TorrentFreak has spoken with the developers of various P2P applications that are considered to be alternatives to LimeWire, and without exception they all report a huge boost in download numbers following Tuesday’s verdict.

Aside from the obvious conclusion, it is remarkable that almost none of the people we spoke with wanted to go on the record and provide any statistics on the skyrocketing downloads. From what we can tell the LimeWire verdict has quite a few people worried, and none of the P2P-developers want to draw attention from the RIAA at this point.

MP3Rocket did tell TorrentFreak that they saw a “nice increase in downloads” following LimeWire’s shutdown, but at the same time they say their client will leave the Gnutella network before the end of the year. Worried about the effects of upcoming legislation and the LimeWire verdict, MP3Rocket will re-brand itself as a YouTube video to MP3 downloading client in the coming weeks.

The only P2P application that did come out with detailed figures is ironically the RIAA-backed BearShare client. Before turning ‘legal’, BearShare was a Gnutella-based application like LimeWire, but it was taken over after the developers lost their case against the RIAA and were ordered to pay the music labels $30 million.

Wednesday, the day after the LimeWire verdict was handed down, BearShare saw a 780% increase in US downloads, up from 8000 to 62,400 a day. The company did not mention whether the number of paid downloads had also increased, which is of course the big question for the RIAA.

The effects of the LimeWire verdict can already be felt by P2P developers in more ways than one. Although most don’t mind the bump in downloads, there seems to be a lot of uncertainty about the future and who the music industry will pick as their next target. Only time will tell.

BearShare’s download spike

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MasterJ633

I never saw what the whole deal with LimeWire was.
I could never find anything i wanted.
Most of the time it was fake/misnamed.

Torrents are the way to go and have been.
Anon

They close 1 service, users move on to the next service, it’s an endless battle.
Ving Joo

I am soo ticked that LimeWire Went down! That was my sole source of music. Now Im using torrents instead. A bit more tedious!

mask-your-ip.it.tc
Anonymous

@2 LimeWire was for ppl that didn’t know other things (torrents, etc). They probably don’t even know the tech behind LimeWire. I even went to school on Friday and ppl were freaking out and saying they have to pay for songs now…
MasterJ633

@5 Yeah, i get you.

I Tried LimeWire, couldn’t find anything. Then uses Ares, it was better, but not the best.

Then my friend told me about torrents and i never looked back.
Anonymous

It may seem disastrous now but I would like to point out that every closure of a popular file sharing system results in the opening of new opportunities.

This is how Lime wire came into being. It was filling a gap left by Napster.

It is not talked about but it is readily acknowledged when the question comes up that these participating in sue-em all know they can not eliminate file sharing. They may slow it down but they will not and can not stop it.

When one system goes down, often not just a single new one comes up but more times than not, multiple open up as a result.

Just is just high publicity with no hope they will ever recover any serious money other than crowing value.
Me

Limewire who? I didn’t even Limewire was still around until I heard the other day it was shut down. Torrents what? I stopped using torrents a couple years ago too. I can find a direct download to almost anything I want nowadays. No need to worry about how many people are seeding the torrents or if I’m gonna download a virus from Limewire. You people have a lot to learn about the internet if you depend on Limewire and torrents for your music, movie and software needs..smh
Prj

@2: Agreed. I could hardly ever find anything remotely like what I’d want (unless I happened to want mislabeled 128k MP3s…)
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Please

@ 8 – ME
Usenet is amazing and all but I’m (along with millions of others) pretty content not paying for the same service.
w0ts0n

Interesting they think there is a market for youtube to MP3 when something like this exists:
http://tubegrabba.com
bamfan5520

MP3Rocket turning into a Youtube Video to MP3 converter, well, at least they changed their image before the a-holes at the RIAA targeted them…For all you people dependent on Torrents, heres a little story going back a few years..When all assets of thepiratebay.org was taken over by members of the MPAA/RIAA, all torrents were switched to a different tracker which was a open bittorrent tracker…The problem with that is that Open trackers have huge gaps in them leading to bots being sent into them by MPAA/RIAA officials…Ever since 2007, torrent downloading has been very, very teadious…Everyone who uses torrents should be aware, masking your ip is not 100% perfect since ip maskers can be rerouted to your main ip, Peerblock is not always 100% perfect either since some of what peerblock considers safe actually is not…You take a chance using a proxy server since most of the bots target proxy ips and can decrypt them…Torrents have been a giant waste of time since the demise of the original piratebay since 90% of all torrents on the internet came from there (or did come from there)…Really, the safest route to take is to use peerblock and get direct downloads…100% of the time, peerblock will detect anything wrong when direct downloading from a source such as megaupload or rapidshare…Take it from a person who has recieved infringement letters for torrents even with masking software or blocking tools…TORRENTS ARE UNSAFE SINCE YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHO YOU ARE DOWNLOADING FROM…All bittorrent programs do is give you an ip address, it doesnt tell you where or who they belong to..At least when you are direct downloading, you are getting it from 1 source and it is the source of your download which is whatever site you get it from…Take it from me, you want an alternative to Limewire, use forum sites like amaderforum.com or rslogs and go that route, you will take yourself in the future for doing so
Anonymous

Having switched from Limewire to torrents years ago I can’t even imagine ever going back, with limewire you can never be certain the file isn’t misnamed/fake/virus depending on what you are using it for, with torrents if a file isn’t what it claims to be there are several ways to tell, you can check the uploader once you learn who to trust, you look at several comment sections after googling the hash file, you can find a forum you trust to guide you to decent files, also if a file is a fake no one will seed it and the torrent dies so fakes don’t hang around long though they do exist so you still have to pay attention to what you are DLing.
bamfan5520

even if you find a person who you trust with torrent download he or she can be subjected to ip bots from the RIAA/MPAA….All of you understand when I say this…TORRENTS ARE UNSAFE!!! You have no way of knowing who you are downloading from on torrents..You think it is someone you trust but 2 weeks down the road, you end up with a little infrignement letter for trusting that so called person for your torrent needs…I used torrents for 1 month back in 2006 and I have never used them since and never plan on doing so again..Torrents are a giant waste of my time and many others..Direct downloading is faster, and safer…I know what im talking about
Anonymous

#14 again, I should mention I am from a sensible country (Canada) so I am less concerned about my IP address being shared, though to #13 if you are sharing your library then your IP address is just as visible to lots of people as they DL from you. Though if you just DL from one person and don’t share then you are less exposed.
jack

@12 you talk alot of stuff that rlly makes no sense at all ina technological world and saying it to the dummys that downloaded using limewire would understand you’re a liarr and you have NO IDEA WHO YOU ARE E V E R downloading something from
jack

@12 you talk alot of stuff that rlly makes no sense at all ina technological world and saying it to the dummys that downloaded using limewire would understand you’re a liarr and you have NO IDEA WHO YOU ARE E V E R downloading something from unless its from a friend directly sending to you
Wilson Andrew Bolton

Did anyone else lol when they saw this?
All that’s changed now is that Limewire is down. Everyone but the idiots that can’t use google is not going to be effective. Just google Limewire alternatives, and the 3rd link was frostwire.
neostyles

I love how on the Bear Share site, they try to fool their users into believing that Bear Share is legal. How are they going to explain what happened with Limewire?
Anonymous

i am still using my Limewire client and it is still working well. Since this is a decentralized network there is no reason to thing it will stop to work anytime soon.

Winy is still working fine 5 years after it’s developer stop supporting it.
Anonymous

I use torrents for albums, movies etc but when you’re just looking for a single song it can be somewhat tedious going to those mp3 search sites, although, vk.com with a firefox add-on makes the process quite easy. It’s too bad I don’t use fire fox.
bamfan5520

Well, limewire actually does not work until you apply the gnutella.net file from frostwire into the limewire directory…Trust me, before I learned about this, limewire would not connect…I know there is talk about some older versions of limewire still working so if I may ask, if your limewire is still working without a patch, what version are you using since most versions going al the way back to 4.5.5 are dead until the patch is applied
Anonymous

@12 Nbamfan5520

“When all assets of thepiratebay.org was taken over by members of the MPAA/RIAA. . . ”

This is a bunch of non-sense.

Obvioulsy you are a troll paid by the corporates parasites to try to scare people away from BT and or the The Pirate bay.

You fail dude because you don’t know what you are talking about.

The Asset of the pirate bay was not ceased because they was and there is no asset to cease.

They have been no change in the way thepiratebay.org or BT is working.

And the thepiratebay.org is still up and running.

Sorry parasite!
bamfan5520

limewire has stopped working on most version for anyone that doesnt read news…both limewire and the RIAA put whats called a killswitch on most newer versions of limewire making them incapable of connecting to the gnutella network…Until you apply the patch into limewire I stated above, it will not work…This is not my own personal info for anyone wondering, someone else found this out before me and I just happened to try it with success
bamfan5520

To the jackass who called me a troll, I got news for you…I am in no way affiliated with those jerks at the RIAA…also, the piratebay HAS CHANGED!!! THEY NO LONGER HAVE THEIR OWN TRACKER IF YOU FOLLOW NEWS LISTINGS!!! GO AHEAD AND LOOK AT A TORRENT AT THE PIRATEBAY! YOU WILL NOTICE THAT THE PIRATEBAY TRACKER IS NON-EXISTANT ANYMORE!! IT IS AN OPEN BITTORRENT TRACKER WHICH HAS MULTIPLE FLAWS WITH IT!! GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT BEFORE YOU RANT A_HOLE!
LimeyBastards

?Well…Limewire was good for finding individual mp3s.

Will never be able to do that again.

What’s up with Freenet or Osiris
lorro

Now all the Noobs can go to torrents and get caught out before us l33t torrent users :P (and usenet, vpn, direct download ect ect)
Anonymous

to be fair bamfan, piratebay still works fine for finding torrents without their own tracker and as long as you live in a decent country the RIAA/MPAA won’t be knocking any time soon, and if your country is not so sensible there are plenty of options (which are just as important if you are using limewire styled clients as opposed to torrents) for DLing annon, just look at the previous article by this very website for examples.
lawl

Just ask that moron DreadWingKnight from utorrent, that guy will tell you that p2p is the same as bittorrent :D
bamfan5520

I understand what you are saying but you have to understand, it doesnt matter what country you live in, all countries monitor torrent traffic through ISP providers…You may not ever get caught but there is anyways that small chance…I dont take risks like that…Better to be safe then sorry…I agree the RIAA/MPAA will not be coming to your door anytime soon but just as a safety measure, I dont use them…I get along just fine going the direct download route…You find just as much as your would with a torrent and probably get faster download rates then you would with a torrent…Forstwire is great, if you know how to use it correctly…In my personal opinion, it is better direct downloading from a site such as megaupload so this way, you know exactly where your files are coming as opposed to using a torrent when you have no idea where or who the files are coming from…You get where im coming from
whyarewepanicking

usenet > torrents/limewire/anything.

enjoy waiting for seeds not being able to get old files :)

*waves*
bamfan5520

@whyarewepanicking

what do you mean by not being able to get old files…You can get practically anything from forums in direct download form…Things you would have never though of you can find through forums…
MPAAHATER

@14

I have 2TBs of Brrips that would suggest that Torrents KICK FUCKING ARSE!!.
anonymous

@12 wow, I would be scared being inside your mind, you are a major weirdo!

Regarding BT downloading, one good solution right now for downloading torrents is to have a Canadian IP address… the minority conservative government over there is having a hard time updating the copyright laws since they need the support of the opposition parties and they are not getting it.

So as of now now, Canadian copyright laws are outdated and useless to anyone who would want to enforce their copyrights. This is why there is no “pay up or else” scheme going on over there.

if you live outside Canada, get yourself a VPN account that is hosted in Canada. Problem solved!

obviously, some day the Canadian government will update its laws but right now this country is a real P2P heaven.

Oh and I forgot to mention that Canadian police forces have less than 50 “cyber cops” on duty and they are way too busy chasing “pedobears” and “Nigerian Prince Letters” to bother themselves with movies and MP3 downloads…
Ettore

“[bamfan5520] I understand what you are saying but you have to understand, it doesnt matter what country you live in …”

It does, actually. I live in Canada, downloading from other people is explicitly legal. Providing the indexing service is what is questionable, but copying from others is completely legal.
Wilson Andrew Bolton

TIEM TO BECOME CANADIAN!
WHERE IS THE SYRUP AND BEAVER COATS?
jk
BTW is there a site that rates VPN services?
bamfan5520

@Ettore

I would like to see some sort of proof…If what you are saying is true then I will agree with you until I see some kind of internet article about what you just stated, my answer stands..Downloading torrents in any country is questionable the least…Show me a url link proving what you just stated and I will agree with you
Anonymous

@31 actually it isn’t that Canadian law is outdated though the conservatives would like to push though tougher laws and can’t for the reason you stated, but the reason it isn’t illegal is down to a few court cases where a judge ruled it to not be illegal to have files in a shared directory and the RCMP stating that they will not be wasting resources tracking down individual users as they claim it will not prevent file sharing, however they will still target sites and major cammers/rippers in Canada just not individual DLers.

Also I should mention that NDP and the Liberals are unlikely to attempt to target citizens and the NDP specifically has stated copyright reform and Net neutrality as major platforms of their campaign so the future is not too bleak in the frozen white north.
bamfan5520

Now what this guy above me said makes more since…They arent going after individuals but the source themselves…Still, that raises more questions on how long that will last before that changes
Anonymous

@bamfan

“Downloading music for personal use, or non-profit use is no longer targeted, and is legal.” Noël St-Hilaire, head of copyright theft investigations of the RCMP, said in an interview with Le Devoir.

from wikipedia on filesharing in canada
bamfan5520

Now that I have seen the article and researched into it, I will edit my statement, downloading from torrents in any country except Canada is questionable…Now, all people have to do is use Canadian proxies when downloading torrents and they will be 1000% safe since canada has made it legal…Thank you for the proof and now I know
tonylmaner@aol.com

Password: r5t6y78

HA! I bet the pigs at the RIAA are already planning how to take down Frostwire and others, but we all know they CANT WIN AGAINST THE MASSES. Lets not forget that it’s the masses who made them rich.
I predict that even more sharing apps will be invented soon; even ones that can’t be destroyed easily (like LimeWire was).
United we stand.
Anonymous

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing_in_Canada

frankly this who article is interesting and outlines quite clearly why it is perfectly legal to both upload or download in Canada, for personal use.

I love my country sometimes, also I would like to add to my fellow Canadians, if you want it to stay this way put some pressure on your local politicians because you know the CRIA/MPAA/RIAA all are.
bamfan5520

But how are people in the US suppose to pressure the MPAA/RIAA to have the same copyright laws as you guys…The problem with that is that our country sucks for copyright laws…they are way too confusing on what we can and cant do…Why cant it be spelled out like canadian copyright laws…If you know of any way to make the US follow Canada’s copyright laws then I would greatly help you enforce it
Anonymous

Facts is if you cant find anything on Limewire you weren’t trying!
Anonymous

It’s all down to politics bam, you need to fight for Net Neutrality and copyright reform you need to find a political party thats willing to fight for those things, and if one doesn’t exist then you need to talk to the party that is closest to your ideas and pressure them, tell them you will not be voting for them because of their stance on Copyright reform and until they can find a better solution you will be voting for someone with more sensible ideals, then find online petitions and talkgroups, you can organise rallies or attend them and you can send letters or put up flyers anything really to raise this issues awareness level in your country, make it known that the parties are losing a lot of votes (and make them lose the votes) and they will have to pay you some attention.
Anonymous

@34 bamfan5520

“Downloading torrents in any country is questionable…”

You are really a troll.

Tell your corporate parasite masters that they are all going to die.

Seriously.
Anonymous

My Limewire client is still working fine.
Anonymous

also it is not the mpaa or the riaa that makes the laws, your elected gov’t does, they are pressuring your gov’t with money and lawyers and lobbiests but they can’t make the laws.

It reminds me of a quote from QI a british show, “Jeez you don’t take an interest in the running of your country for just 45 years and look at the state of it” If you aren’t doing something to change the problem you have no right to complain about it.
pswd: r5t6y78

tonylmaner(at)aol(dot)com

United we stand.
FrostWire FTW!
bamfan5520

To the anonymous person sending me things to read…If I could only find a party that is doing such a thing then I would greatly do just that but trying to find people in the US to fight for copyright reform is tough since everyone is scared of the current laws in place here…AND TO THE PEOPLE THAT KEEP CALLING ME A TROLL, LISTEN UP!! I DO NOT WORK FOR ANY ANTI-P2P ORGANIZATION, I AM A CONSERNED CITIZEN OF THE US WHO IS STATING FACTUAL INFORMATION AND REAL ACTIONS THAT HAVE HAPPENED! ANYONE CALLING ME A TROLL IS A JACKASS SINCE I AM NO ANTI-P2P SCUM NOR AM I WITH THE MPAA/RIAA!
Anonymous

@bam

http://www.savetheinternet.com/

great place to start about net neutrality
Cpt Turd

All you people still using Limewire need to ditch it and use torrents. Trust me.
Doink

Canada, the true north strong and FREE
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rampflash

limewire version 4.18.3 works fine go to filehippo and download
Blackplan

@12: VPN, Oh, and IP addresses aren’t evidence, remember? If you get angry letters, just deny all knowledge and tell them to fuck off and die. Problem solved.
Ninja

Well, one thing is certain: some ppl will start paying for more official stuff, some ppl will stop paying completely, a huge freaking lot of ppl will find alternatives and make things way more complicated for MAFIAA. Life will go on and who downloads and buys from whatever source will most likely keep doing so and the ones who wouldn’t never buy will still never buy.

In the end MAFIAA loses. Again.
Anonymous

104 Oct 27, 2010 at 07:43 by random_slut

meh.

limewire was a virus/spam/cp/etc wasteland only used by noobs and kiddies.

while the riaa can claim a victory, the reality is that this won’t affect anything. it’s similar to what happened to kazaa years ago – some sh*thole p2p network gets taken down, it becomes news for a while but ultimately no-one gives a f*ck since piracy is still rampant and you can get movies/tv/mp3/porn/etc from better and more secure sources.

heh. snap.
theusermod

won’t that mean there will be pretty much no songs since everyone movied on to bearshare. and wouldn’t that mean since bearshare filters all copyrighted songs that the coure source of limewire its users has shut down because noone is sharing to them anymore and everyone will stick with bearshare.
Troll hunter

@ bumfan5520

Your words are truly inspirational! Like Mrs Bush speaking out against drugs ‘n booze. We’ve carefully read what you’ve said in all your posts and decided to completely quit using all available download methods on the internet. Pass this message on to your line supervisor and suck his ass cheeks
Meh.

LimeWire’s still around? I’m surprised it lived this long.

As long as What, TC, BtN and FTN don’t get shut down I couldn’t care less.
Anonymous

Wow #3 are you that wow spammer?
Anonymous

limewire songs are torrents!
Anonymous

Acquisition (Mac) hasn’t been working lately. Possibly due to this whole Limwire shutdown?
Royabi

i heard on the radio and i just want to say torrents are not safe! And limewire wasn’t that bad it didnt have that many mistake and you can always find what your looking for (unless your looking for like country music). So yeah…
Sign The Petition

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We’re aiming to get 5 million signatures to send to MPAA, RIAA et. al.

Please spread the link everywhere you can think of: Social Bookmarks, Social Networking, Twitter etc.

Thanks for your support
Melina

@12, TPB assets were never taken over by the mafiaa, mafiaa doesn’t target proxys, no problems since 2007 & Ive downloaded over 3000 movies on my regular connection w/ no proxy,
yes ipv6 does leak dns if you use vpn so revert to ipv4 if you use a vpn, bots can’t decript proxy servers or else tor wouldn’t be around, if u direct download u don’t need peerblock duh, I will download torrents if I want to regardless..

“The only P2P application that did come out with detailed figures is ironically the RIAA-backed BearShare client. Before turning ‘legal’, BearShare was a Gnutella-based application like LimeWire, but it was taken over after the developers lost their case against the RIAA and were ordered to pay the music labels $30 million.

Wednesday, the day after the LimeWire verdict was handed down, BearShare saw a 780% increase in US downloads, up from 8000 to 62,400 a day.”

There are still bearshare clients that work fine without going the mafiaa route. If I was to download a mafiaa version of Bearshare, I would delete it and find the real version instead. It has been spread around. In case you missed it, here it is one of them.

Properly configured, it’s the fastest gnutella client on the net, in my opinion.
Bearshare 5.1.0 beta25 http://is.gd/gyczn
bamfan5520

@Troll hunter

I got 2 words for you: F**K OFF

@Sign The Petition

I will be signing your petition very soon…I support this 100%…I hope you meet your goal so we can finally start fixing the bs in the US with filesharing

@Melina

The Pirate Bay may still be active but it sure isnt run by Fredrik anymore since he is either in jail or hiding from the Sweaden government…A Major company in a different country bought out pirate bay but I still dont trust that crap with my life sorry…I also wouldnt use any form of bearshare since being taking over and approved by the RIAA…I wouldnt even use the older versions cause they are probably swarming with anti-p2p holes…

To Anyone Else Who Decides To Get In My Face!

I dont give a flying crap what you use to download with…I am expressing opinion and fact…You dont want to understand then fine if you actually are paying attention then good for you…I am just stating that with my experiance with torrents, they to me are a waste of time…I could give a crap how many of those infrigement letters come through…I know someone who has recieved a least 40 of them with no actions taken…I could care less about a piece of paper…If people want to keep twisting my words then the people who do can kiss my A$$ but to the others that actually agree with what im saying, thank you for understanding and not needing it explained to you…Once again to the one idiot in this post…I AM NOT ANTI-P2P OR MPAA/RIAA…UNDERSTAND THIS!!! I HAVE MENTIONED SEVERAL TIMES I HATE AND LOATH THEM THAT SHOULD BE AN INDECATION ON HOW MUCH I HAVE THEM!!!GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEAD
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JahRohming

I got 2 viruses on 2 separate occasions using Limewire where i had to completely re-install my OS. Fuck limewire, never had any problems with torrents. I am surprised people still used this old technology. Good to see it go.
layerbakes

bamfan5520, I urge you at once to commit suicide in the most pain inducing way that your skitzophrenia riddled brain can muster up like half the stories you are dreaming up out of thin air.
layerbakes

To be perfectly honest, I’m not entirely sure how someone as delusional as your self, bamfan5520 made your way into this gem of a site. I suggest you get your head checked be for preaching spin doctor crap you bought into.
TRVillager

@Sign The Petition

Why the petition wants to get my FB information?? Cant you make simple page for that.

@bamfan5520

Its very easy to shut down the site providing direct d/l’s but difficult when u have decentralised one like in bittorrent protocol (though we need tracket to get to the swarm). But whatever mode we r using to d/l frostwire,limewire,torrent.direct d/l,rapidshare,USenet.. We must understand we are all ONE and we need to be UNITED if we want to win the battle.

Together we Win, Divided we fall
bamfan5520

@TRVillager

Actually, it is kind of hard considering in order to get direct download links of file storage sites such as megaupload, you need to have an account with a forum what displays download links from the website also means that they would have to download the file to see if it is needed to be deleted which would mean they commited infrigement themselves by downloading from a site they are trying to shut down…I also agree with your together we win, divided we fall stance…

@layerbakes

Simply put because I am sick of re-explaining to nobody’s like yourself…F**K OFF or as fredrik used to say on the piratebay, go sodomize yourself with a retractable baton because you are completly pathetic!
bamfan5520

@layerbakes

Also, to answer your statement of how I got here…FREEDOM OF SPEECH/EXPRESSION!!!DEAL WITH IT!!
y7Dope77yboyz

next stop …private torrents
y7Dope77yboyz

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CTKS

Ow… Flame Battle.
Cash

I used Limewire after the demise of Napster, but after 2 viruses in a row required a complete reinstall of my OS, I abandoned it for torrents completely. I’m surprised it took this long to go away, to be honest.
Anonymous

Limewire? I keep using eMule, torrents and direct downloads that I find via Google.
ahhhhh

@bamfan5520S
Surely with direct download your entire shared folder can be detected, with torrents only the torrent your are sharing can be detected, what sounds safer?
Anonymous

To clarify about RCMP (royal Canadian Mounted Police), they say:

1- Going after downloaders isn’t a priority

2- Tracking uploaders/downloaders is impossible because they don’t have the ressources for it

3- downloading for personnal (non-profit) use is tolerated (if not legal)

4- RCMP would rather fight real criminals that REALLY hurt people such as counterfeiters, organised crime, terrorists, pedos, identity thieves…

It is also nice to notice that Canadian judges are somewhat relax about the whole issue and that if the RIAA would ever manage to successfully sue a Canadian, the damages would rather be on the low side and uninteresting to the copyright holder.

Bottom line, Canadian artists are all doing fine, Celine Dion is rich beyond belief, those who don’t succeed can rely on the social net and the Canadian government cultural subsidies for the arts.

The Canadian society decided to go after real criminals and to not criminalize regular individuals who only do what everyone else is doing and are doing it for personal use only.

That might also explain why pot smokers go free while pot producers (organized crime) are being arrested. “you can smoke it as long as you don’t sell it for a profit”.

The rest of the world should be inspired by the Canadian way!
sqeeze those limes

i got limewire 4.16.6 and it still works…should i ditch it incase they track me?
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@bamfan5520 The constant use of CAPS are common tactics of a troll
GTFO Troll

@bamfan5520:

You keep on saying “F**K OFF” to everybody who criticizes you but the fact is, you keep on saying SH*T you really don’t know about.

Please stop from further embarrassing yourself and just SHUT UP.

We also have our freedom of speech. We can say whatever the hell we want because you know why? Nobody owns the internet. NO. Not you. Not your retard bosses at RIAA and MPAA or any other copyright trolls for that matter.

If you can’t respect our freedom of speech, the feeling is mutual.
Anonymous

I just found out that bamfan5520 is a 14 y/o kid… no wonder he has no clue what he is talking about!
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Anonymous

@81 no your fine. Gnutella is a network that Shearaza from Sourceforge, bearshare (not mafiaa version but one posted above uses) many other gbutella clients use. The network will still function, the client if you have one that works will still work as before (unless you have the mafiaa limewire disabled version) etc. Also the number of Bearshare clients (real not mafiaa version) clients have been going strong and the real client was shut down long ago just goes to show you how many people love Bearshare and will continue to use as most of them probably don’t even know the client was shut down by mafiaa as their cients still work fine.
No name

Re: 75 “Anti-proxy: how to detect your IP if you are using an anonymous proxy server
freeproxy.ru/en/free_proxy/faq/anti_proxy.htm

The page discusses how to detect an IP through a proxy server when browsing, not torrenting.

If using a paid proxy with uTorrent such as BtGuard, it would appear you remain anonymous.

This forum has repeatedly endorsed BtGuard through articles and is sponsored by it.

I’ve noticed few complaints from BtGuards users. Any thoughts out there on the safety of BtGuard?
Anonymous

“LimeWire Alternatives See Huge Increase in Downloads”
well, what did you expect?
people to give up or something? Ain’t gonna happen.

I think it’s common knowledge by now that if you’re living in the U.S or the U.K, torrenting is not really safe.
Because in those specific 2 countries mafiaa and moron friends are rampant.
Extortion letters are a given if you get “caught” sharing stuff.
And you get treated like a criminal while real criminals get of the hook oh so easily.

*my 2 cents
Anonymous

Bearshare, imesh, lphant and the fake version of Shareaza (the real, open source version is now on SourceForge) are all the same application.

Digital Restrictions Management infested music selling stores approved by the mafiaa, everything is controlled, most file extensions aren’t allowed and so on.

These are not LimeWire alternatives.
MacUser

I have a Mac and Limewire worked amazing for me. No viruses always found what I was looking for. I have tried majority of the ones that ppl are mentioning but none of them seem that good. What should I use?
anon2

i still think, as do others, that it is only a matter of time before other file sharing sites etc are targeted. the ‘industries’ refuse to take any notice of what is said by customers and continue to pursue their own agenda, despite the proof that disputes their claims and disregarding even their own artists, simply to try to preserve an outdated business model. i wonder how much further back we would be as a world if there had been so much resistance to progress in all other areas over the centuries?

changing to the petition mentioned in post #66, if there were other links apart from ‘facebook’, maybe more people would sign? i dont and will not use facebook. i am sure others dont either. if you want signatures, make the petition more available!
Quartz

I help operate a p2p network and we also saw downloads sky rocket by rather more than 780%, it seems there is a mass exodus of limewire users seeking alternatives and those networks still operating without cartel interference will be enjoying a much awaited boost.

Since the court case was mentioned some time ago plans where laid in place to take up some of the slack to cater for just this event and most of the other free nets will absorb the fleeing masses, epic fail RIAA SCUM

Btw Ernesto percentages are good but when there’s no base figure for the increment they are little more than worthless, one down load a week increasing to 2 is a 100% increase so figures such as 780% don’t show much unless they are referenced, perhaps you could ask bearshare to share their “before” and “after” data with you so we can see the real amount of interest in their client.
three-oh-six

I LOVE MY COUNTRY!!! Oh Canada!!
Anonymous

A long time ago I downloaded Limewire Pro from Limewire light.
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Dickbutt

Dickbutt dickbutt dickbutt… butt… buttdick dick… DICKBUTT!!
Adam

Limewire is similar to that of Kazaa, point, click, and SEARCH and woosh, you have nearly any possible file you could ever ask for :P Unless it’s some obscure release…..

I gotta say, I’m not affected, still flying with FrostWire ;) But FW is only my “secondary” client…..utorrent and BT in general is my first source.
Swiss_Pirate

@81:

Same in Switzerland: downloading is 100% legal. And best of all: thanks to a recent federal court ruling it is illegal for Swiss ISP’s to hand out the identity of their users to 3rd parties such as the content mafia. Privacy is sacred here. Even if you engage in P2P.

http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-monitors-banned-from-operating-in-home-country-100909/

Best of all:

“… it is now illegal to collect IP addresses in Switzerland with the aim of later filing a lawsuit, and the ruling reinforces the notion that IP addresses are private data. Furthermore, it seems unlikely that Swiss courts will accept IP addresses gathered from outside the country as evidence against suspected file-sharers either … ”

I can download whatever I want, whenever I want, using whatever P2P client I can get hold of. Swiss law says that computer users are too dumb to know the difference between a legal or an illegal download, hence why downloading is 100% legal because it would otherwise criminalise way too many ordinary people. And it’s illegal for anyone to collect my IP because that data is considered private.

And collecting my data from a foreign country doesn’t help: Swiss courts would never accept such “evidence” (too easy to fabricate) and foreign courts have no jurisdiction over me because whatever I do, I do it here where it is legal.

Interested in living here? :-)
http://isyours.com/e/residency/index.html
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bamfan5520

I have had enough of people who are beyond childs on this site…For the sake of Freedom of speech we should all start a petition on getting certain a-hole off this site including ones that dont get the hint…One of which is this guy
GTFO Troll

He himself probably works with the RIAA so im the best intrest of our freedoms, destroy people like this for their own good…Start bashing them for being retarded beyond belief and ban them for all social interaction sites cause all they do is make gross aquisations on people that are lies…If everyone else who has read my posts…I never advocated taking away freedoms of people, I NEVER said I worked with any anti-p2p group or with the RIAA…I also dont tollerate dumba$$es like GTFO Troll who never went to school and all they do is smoke crack on a daily basis and get kicked in the nuts oftenly enough where they are half a man…I really dont care how dumb you are GTFO Troll but like I said I dont work for the RIAA and never stated I did…
Algor

@12

here is my thoughts on the subject.
(without having much technical knowlegde)

Usenet/darknet, seems and sounds like the safest way, of getting the stuff you want.

Direct download(with or without vpn), well imagin that we all used direct download, for one, the industri would win, they could now price tag the coast of downloads, isnt that one of the major things we DONT want? (atleast i dont, media, knowlegde, entertainment on the internet should be free for all, thats what it was intended to be)

p2p/torrents, well for me this is about for evryone to get the same, as the fellow human next to you. Greed have ruined a lot, in the past years of our excistens, lets not ruin the internet to. thats why a fight for p2p is indeed needed, and allso why torrent have to be preserved.

(sorry for my english, not my spoken language)
bamfan5520

@Algor

You make an interesting point…True if everyone used one form for downloading, the industry could get easier wins at a faster rate…I do agree that there should be variety in the different download forms that are avalible…Whatever works for you is fine but whatever works for the other person is fine too…I havent had too much success with usenet since sometimes, usenet doesnt let people download from the newsgroups…Dont know if others have had the same problem…If that works for you then great…Its still a safer alternative then some of the others…I have had major success in direct downloads off of fourms like amaderforum.com…It works for me but not for others…Still both my way and your way are safer alternatives to some of the others…I do agree that a fight to protect our privacy during p2p activities is necessary…Due to my experiance with torrents though, I disagree with them being preserved…But that is just my opinion, others feel differently, thats fine…I just dont like torrents or torrent downloading in general after some of the bad experiances I have had with it
layerbakes

I’m bamfan5520, I can drive an potato on teh moonz an I believe p2p has demon worms with tracing bacon weavers!
bamfan5520

@layerbakes

Your last statement just proves how childish you really are…Go back to pissing in your pj’s at night and crying for mommy about something hiding in yoru closet…For god sakes, GROW UP!
FreenetFTW

@bam_something

> GROW UP!

Why not follow your own advice and do the same??
anon

just get a vpn, and go to filetube, bobs your uncle fanny’s your aunt
layerbakes

someone get the internet police, we’re falling apart the ground is shaking1!!11
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f**K Gene Simmons

lmao limewhat?

dude if people still use p2p they are so clueless and don’t know.
lmao a chick i know thought she lost all her music lol i said check your files. and she was d’oh. f*ck spyware-virus-wire glad it’s gone.
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westino

so i just found out about whats happned to limewire. does this mean that the site no longer works and that no one cant use it anymore. can the RIAA track limewire users if they still continue to DL from the site
FreenetFTW

@107:

If you really want to use something Limewire-like … use Frostwire. Same thing. Different name. And Frostwire is alive and kicking. Frostwire is open source (so it’s free; but a few fraud sites out there try to “sell” it to people, LOL) and it works tip top on Windoze, Mac OS X and Linux.

http://www.frostwire.com

And whatever they did or did not do to the Limewire client … it has no influence on the Gnutella P2P network or on other clients such as Frostwire.

So you’d use Frostwire instead of Limewire … and things will be as if nothing had happened. Yeah, big victory for RIAA/MPAA … you can simply use a different client. Taddaaaa. Problem solved.
leeroy

ok im goin in…its LEEROOOOOOOY UM JENNNNKINNNSSS
Anon

omg i never realized what noobs people really are..

i didnt even think people used that crap program until all of a sudden everybody is asking me WHAT HAPPENED TO LIMEWIRE OMG OMG OMG DUDE WHAT HAPPEND..

seriously.. can nobody read?
Lee

Most of the Direct Connect clients have seen an increase in downloads activity too. Here are some good alternatives:

http://www.apexdc.net – ApexDC++
http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/ – DC++
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f**K Gene Simmons

i tried frostwire as a test ubuntu linux. lmao right before you finish there is a button that says for you to click so you don’t add copyrighted material dude that sh_t sound wired alright right to the government screw that lol.
SimonOrhaha..

I wonder how the number of downloads increased in 900% within two days…
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GTFO Troll

You? An educated person? I think not…

Monkey see monkey do… All you hear is what you say.

as a matter of fact, why did I even bother trying to go down to your level when you’re really hopeless.

I wish someone gives you a Sweet Chin Music so that you could finally shut the f**k up.
YaKillaCJ

Limewire was ok for individual songs. Thats undisputed fact. In most opinion it was actually the BEST Client and source at its time. Me personally, I never used it on my own windows pc. I have it on Ubuntu (linux), so no viruses.

Really tho its not a win or loss because the network it connected to is still up.

Oh and about filesharing in general. It is impossible to be 100% about what U are getting before U get it. Direct downloads, Usenet, ect. can have viruses too. Every method starts with some1 uploadin content from the personal pc to a source (torrent tracker, Direct Download (forum, mediaupload, usenet, gnetta network (or whatever its called), ect.).

Shit, iTunes is a p2p method. The labels give/sell the media to iTunes to post and when some1 buy/download, iTunes hands it out. AKA the middle man. This is what the internet was built on, SHARING INFORMATION.

Now as far as whats better, its personal choice and smarts. Torrents I have had much success wit because its speed, easibility and information before downloadin.
I have downloaded as fast as 6mbs on torrents. Somethin a Direct Download cant do because the middle man of downloadin from some sites server vs downloading from several ppl. Also many torrent sites are just as organized as forums and alot of times easier because there is no need to sign up to see links.

Bottomline tho is ya pick what ya want. To each his or her own.

Among that bad, remember there are alot of Americans (the largest source of media in the world (added this so I dont affend any1)) who pay attention. Lets all remember when Comcast (1 of the largest US Net provider) had to lift the limits it had on Torrents.

In the US, U are safe so long as U are only downloadin without attent to make a profit and its for personal use. Unless U just a dummy in court.
Now if U are providin said info, thats another topic all together.

Anyways, later, this a long rant.

United We STAND, Divided we fall.
YaKillaCJ

Oh yea. Somethin else the alternate methods lack. The ability to take what parts ya wont and exclude those U dont. Also can be said that torrents lets ya upload and have organized folders. Or even complete seasons and ect. Somethin the rest cant do as easily.
D

@#17: You’re just posturing. Torrents are by far the best mainstream way to download free content. Usenets and DD services are good options if you’re willing to pay for them, otherwise they are typically worse than crap. True pirates (and cheapskates) refuse to pay for pirated content.
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musicme

@7
How you gonna drop something like that and not even link some info. Don’t be selfish.
we are here to share. LOL!!!
Johnny Rotten

I have been amused by the lack of knowledge from @ bumfan5520

You must not be aware of what torrents really are .. I have dl at least 10000 in the last five yrs with nary a letter .. I keep it cool and dont sell nothing … NEVER A VIRUS from a torrent and keep to the private sites and your shit is golden …
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Anon

LimeWire is still perfectly working…
Anonymous

Hey everyone, bam wants to sign a petition! He MUST Not be a troll who is on the RIAA’s leash. I mean that just proves it. And Direct downloading HAS to be safer. It’s not like you will directly download from an RIAA lackey. IMPOSSIBLE! I agree with bam, lets all use a “single source” approach to downloading because that will be more resilient to the RIAA’s gestapo tactics.

Oh, wait. No it won’t. I knew this asshat was a troll by his first post.
Suki

Hey everyone, bam wants to sign a petition! He MUST Not be a troll who is on the RIAA’s leash. I mean that just proves it. And Direct downloading HAS to be safer. It’s not like you will directly download from an RIAA lackey. IMPOSSIBLE! I agree with bam, lets all use a “single source” approach to downloading because that will be more resilient to the RIAA’s gestapo tactics.

Oh, wait. No it won’t. I knew this asshat was a troll by his first post.
Fox trot

Anyone for cheese with all that whining.
hehehehe

People still use Limewire? That’s some funny shit. Sure I use the network, but not Limewire, too many fakes. (not my only source obviously, my main source is something that is better not talked about).

Shareaza is good, just don’t get the fake one. Better than BearShare and the others, cuz it uses all the networks, Gnutella, Gnutella2 (limewire used gnutella2) and eDonkey (which is the glacier of file sharing, maybe slow at times, but its damn stable from takedowns) You can get a filter and server list, combined weeds out 95% of the fake crap that usually plagues those networks.
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Anonymous

LimeWire was fucking trash and will not be missed. Nearly every computer that came to my work filled with viruses had LimeWire installed and I can assure you, it was no coincidence.
ecoy

alternative for limewire is FROSTwIRE

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