LimeWire Not as Popular as Recent Reports Suggest
Written by Ernesto on December 28, 2007Today several news sources again reported that 36.4% of all PCs have Limewire installed. The reports are based on a press release published by Digital Music News, who misinterpreted their own data. The acual install base is less than 18%, 17.92 to be exact.
Ars Technica published an article in which they quote the press release from Digital Music News, and report that one third of all PCs have Limewire installed. This article was later picked up by Digg, Slashdot and several other news sources. However, as we have reported before, this figure is incorrect.
It turns out that Digital Music News report is based on data which was collected by PC Pitstop. Unfortunately Digital Music News has trouble interpreting their own data. They claim in their press release that it is 36.4%, but that is the market share compared to other P2P clients. This means that on all PCs that have a P2P client installed, 36.4% installed Limewire
The actual install base of Limewire is less than 18%, still impressive, but not even close to one third of all PCs. Nevertheless, LimeWire is still the P2P application that is installed on most desktop computers. In comparison, with an install rate of more than 5% on Windows PCs worldwide, uTorrent is now by far the most popular BitTorrent client.
TorrentFreak contacted Digital Music News’s Paul Resnikoff two weeks ago about this issue and he told us: “I think you’ve definitely caught an error in our reporting. We’ll be issuing corrections on this. Thanks for the assistance.” So far, the initial reports haven’t been corrected, and this blunder is published as fact over and over again.
For those who are interested, here you can find the raw data where the report is based on.
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This data is bullshit. All this means is that 18% of people who use PC Pitstop have installed Limewire at one point. That is a -very- small sample of global computer usage. The real number of PCs with Limewire installed is more like ~1%. Just think of the sheer number of computers used in business and educational settings that can’t and won’t have Limewire installed. That same group of systems won’t be using PC Pitstop.
@ 14 yearold, i agree frostwire seems far superior to limewire.
i think apps like frostwire have their uses like dl’ing individual songs, but for torrents UTORRENT is the best.
Thanks for turning over such an obvious misinterpretation from DMN — who ought to be ashamed for charging $295 for such rubbish!
Mind you, with Limewire showing on (*only*) 18% of those PCs checked by the PC Pitstop sample, it kind of suggests that *all* their data is similarly very atypical.
Limewire, shouldn’t it read,
Lamewire….
I hardly used it when P2P was the thing to have, even then i used iMESH. Too many viruses nowadays, then i moved to Bitcomet, (that got banned on most private sites) so then moved to uTorrent. Still using this today, (sometimes).
But the way forward is Newsgroups!! Yes i pay a small fee every month, but i have a (supposidly) 8mb BT Broadband line and get around 4-6000 kbs.
700mb film takes approx 33 minutes!!
dont forget KCEasy. it supports Gnutella, Ares, and OpenFT networks.
It’s all about the google trick. . .
http://www.frostwire.com/
Is 1 million times better than limewire: The interface looks like limewire.
Completely Free & open-source Firewall-to-firewall transfers
Absolutely NO Spyware or Adware Connects to more
iTunes Integration BitTorrent Support Proxy Support
it only good 4 downloading music
Frostwire blows.. like all the others. I never used Limewire because of the ads, malware, etc. I doubt I would have found much that I wanted on it anyway. Several friends used it back in the day (uh… seven years ago or more) but I don’t know anyone who uses that garbage anymore.
Before BT I used emule/edonkey, DC++ a little bit, IRC, and Soulseek. IRC and Soulseek are the only two I continue to use (though very little) since the BT revolution.
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But the way forward is Newsgroups!! Yes i pay a small fee every month, but i have a (supposidly) 8mb BT Broadband line and get around 4-6000 kbs.
700mb film takes approx 33 minutes!![/quote]
A waste of money methinks. I download 700MB dvdrips in half an hour anyway (or less)… for FREE. I just have the basic 6Mbit comcast connection. Maybe you just need to tweak your TCP settings. ;)
i tink its ok if your looking for underground music that aint going to be on BT yet if at all. here there is a big underground sence and hard to get hard of music cept for limewire.. So yea, Utorrent good for films/games/albums. limewire good for one off songs you cant download off BT sites!
limeware BAD
torrent/dc GOOD
if you don’t want viruses, stay away from limewire
Its had to get on a good private music
tracker…
so people have to use soul-seek etc to find the rarer songs..
Back the truck up — need a follow-up story with more details — what is PC pit stop and why is it a valid statistical sample of installed applications? How does PC pit stop know what applications are installed on a computer? Do people self-report installed applications? Sorry, I just want more info.
never did like limewire or kaza or any of that, ai found lots of fakes, slow Dl(prob due to crappy conetion at the time)
viruses, ads, all that crap
plus i like to download full albums not just one song
i’d be interested in how you do that,
can you mail ufc-pride(at)hotmail.co.uk with details for a fellow downloader :o)
At Fri December 28th
11:47 AM Central time here in the US
unable to connect to:
http://thepiratebay.org
88.140.176.146
Anyone else having problems? MAYBE its Just temporary? After Demonoid going down I have a bad feeling about it! Tried a visual route tracer program, told me unable to connect to port 80. Tried a proxy workaround, same result…anyone?
piratebay offline
Piratebay if offline.
They’re eating waffles, just wait. Nothing to worry about.
on all tracker sites i’ve been on that have polls for what people use as clients the winners are always uTorrent and then the second most used is Azureus
I’m surprised by the results since i dont see eMule (eDonkey network) mentioned at all considering it has the widest, most diverse databse of ANY p2p protocol…i have found virtually everything on eMule that does not exist on LimeWire, BitTorrent, etc…the only way this can be is that there is an enormous user-base that is sharing way more content than any other p2p platform. Try it yourself and compare, you will see that eMule wins hands-down when looking for content.
napster was the shiat back in the days.
Don’t forget bitcomet.com
bittornado.com
torrentstorm
abc.com
etc…
download is just hosting it and only minor download a few torrent app that is widely available everywhere else. Unlike most of ya
I use multiple client
saying utorrent is the best is bs
there is no best.
Great, article. Limewire is getting worse and worse. so much spyware, and ads. I even posted a few comments and this link on my blog,
http://www.opentopix.com/topic/tech-news/limewire-not-so-popular-full-of-spyware-and-shit
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