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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even 17% makes no sense for LW
it cant be higher than 10%
it has so many bad files that it just can’t be that popular
Not LimeWire generates those files, it are (MAFI)AA-supported spambots.
If another network will have a weak-spam spot, and will become popular, then the *AA will target those too.
Limewire is huge because most computer users are now dummies.
[quote comment="249975"]FROST WIRE ROCKS BABY ![/quote]
+1 to that
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[quote comment="249975"]FROST WIRE ROCKS BABY ![/quote]
Way to go there little guy…if im not mistake frostwire is the same thing as limewire, other than support and occasionally content
I got spyware and shit when I installed app’s like limewire.
If you use limewire wisely , then you wont get any spam.
there is an spam/junkfilter that works verry good .
But it seems a lot of users look for sex files , dont use there brains , and are really ending with a lot of spam.
i am on gnutella , with phex , frostwire,limewire , so choice enough just starting again after an period of not using , most of the time sharing asian movies from the newsgroups …….for me it is an uploading tool …works great .
once and a while ill download and check an file goes well, but have to say that iam using gnutella in combination with newsgroups , thats enough for me …
FrostWire is exactly the same as LimeWire except for the skin. If you don’t know that little, you’re 100 years to early to open your mouth.
Anyone who claims he got spyware, viruses or whatever from LimeWire should be thrown into prison because this level of stupidity is a threat to the public. In other words, you guys have AIDS for sure.
You must be new;
there’s a handful of _painfully_ obvious indicators on fake files, and then a couple of post-download methods to continue to check [hint; "blame microsoft"; y'all know what I'm sayin':)].
They are so blatantly obvious in fact, that I remain casually undecided; is it obnoxious script kiddies/teens flooding the network, or the mafIAA? Because it sure is low grade…
I’d give more info, but, I like their spamming attempts low grade; I’d like to keep them that way:)
RS.com? You taking the P*SS?
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