LimeWire to filter out Adobe products
Written by Smaran on November 11, 2006LimeWire today announced on the company blog that from now on they will be filtering out Adobe products like Photoshop that are distributed illegally over P2P networks that LimeWire hooks into.
This move is part of a “continuing effort to work with the software industry” and will most probably lead to the company signing deals with other software vendors.
As usual, the Adobe products will only be filtered out if the user has chosen to block copyrighted material during installation by checking the ‘Enable Content Filtering’ option.
According to the company, such deals are being signed in hope that fewer consumers will be sued for using the program. They say this is “a significant step toward a positive relationship with software producers and means a safer peer-to-peer process for LimeWire users.”
The company has clearly been trying to go legit, but at the same time not charge users for anything but the Pro version. This became apparent when they added a pop-up message that notified users that a license for the song/file they were downloading could not be found and asked them if they were sure they wanted to download it anyway.
LimeWire was sued by the RIAA earlier this year after the company announced that it was planning to integrate BitTorrent support in the program. The RIAA demanded $150,000 per song “wilfully uploaded.” This did not stop them from going ahead and implementing it anyway.
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That sucks, even though I don’t use limewire anymore it’s sad to see how the industry pushes their alleged enemies to implement restrictions in fully legal software.
I use Limewire for getting most of my music.
This story scares me…
This gets me wondering: who the heck uses LimeWire to download Adobe products? Well, this move is understandable since the software industry still doesn’t quite know how to deal with p2p.
I restrict my occasional LimeWire use to find some specific mp3’s. That seems to have become more difficult nowadays, though, since there’s much spam around there. However, I believe for many it is either “download the stuff via p2p” or don’t get the thing at all. I mean, it’s certainly not a choice between “steal” or “buy”, at least not for me.
no problem for me.
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Its interesting to see limewire still so strong, but also a great shame they are still under constant harassment for doing very little, if anything wrong.
The one problem i noticed in the past when using limewire (for whatever reason, i need not discuss what i used the p2p client for) was the amount of viruses appearing on many downloads. This is a major concern, and limewire should work toward incorporating a scanning technique to help block these potentially harmful files, especially when some users will not realise the file, be it mp3, avi or anything else for that matter, could contain viruses, and when the end user does happen to find out, its too late in some cases, and they are already infected.
Would be good to see some progress further from the “this file could potentially be harmful to your computer” which doesnt offer the oportunity to scan the file first.
If you can get it for nothing, why the hell not.
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