Limewire To Include BitTorrent Support

Written by Ernesto on June 22, 2006 

Limewire, one of the most popular filesharing applications just released V 4.12 and announced that limewire will support .torrent downloads in the near future.

It seems that they don’t want to miss out on all the BitTorrent goodness. The limewire blog states:

Starting in the next beta series, LimeWire will feature BitTorrent integration and a custom DHT. Keep a look out for what’s next!

Interesting…

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13 Responses

1 Jun 22, 2006 at 17:00 by nathan

As a self-described torrent freak, what do you think about the integration of .torrent downloads into an otherwise Gnutella-based client?

2 Jun 22, 2006 at 17:39 by Ernesto

The more bittorrent support, the better

As long as it’s spyware free, lots of features and light on resources :)

3 Jun 22, 2006 at 18:23 by Simran

If I’m not mistaken, LimeWire is open source, so there’s really no chance of spyware. If they put it in, someone could just take the source code and make a new application that’s exactly the same, minus the spyware.

I think it’s an excellent move. I love seeing applications like Opera, and now LimeWire integrate Bit-Torrent. I don’t need a whole extra app. for downloads and don’t really want one, however cool the bubbles on the Bits on Wheels icon may look on my OS X dock.

The ultimate would be if iTunes supported Bit-Torrnet. It would revolutionise podcasting all ove again!

4 Jun 22, 2006 at 18:56 by Ernesto

Personally I don’t mind having a single application to handle my torrents. I think bittorrent needs apps like µTorrent to guarantee innovation and progress. I abosolutely support bittorrent integration in browsers like Opera and Firefox, and perhaps in windows Vista, but I think we still need some (hard)core bittorrent developers to lead the way.

Second thing is that it may depend on how you use Bittorrent. If I’m downloading a 4.5GB iso, I don’t want to keep my bowser open all the time, and I defenitely don’t want to run an application that consumes a lot of memory, just to download a single file.

5 Jun 26, 2006 at 03:15 by king2

i agree with Ernesto , iam running rtorrent now a consolle based client and iam happy with that ..

6 Jun 26, 2006 at 15:07 by nathan

You guys should check out the LimeWire forums, we’re hoping to get this sort of debate going there because an open-source project is nothing with out productive debate. All this stuff could be helpful.

7 Dec 26, 2007 at 20:53 by Shnarbis

yeah, but guys, im on a completely differnt side

i have installed the new limewire, while i also have azureus. Now when i download stuff off sites like isohunt, it doesn’t go to azureus anymore, it goes to limewire. and i dont get anywhere because its like, “finding sources” until i close limewire and clear the download. can someone help me on how to download torrents with the new limewire?

8 Mar 17, 2008 at 13:32 by george thorne

yeah its just a bad torrent, keep trying all of the other torrents with similar names and these will probably download within 5 miniuts. did you pay for limewire pro, or get it through bugmenot.

9 Mar 17, 2008 at 13:33 by george thorne

[quote comment="248769"]yeah, but guys, im on a completely differnt side

i have installed the new limewire, while i also have azureus. Now when i download stuff off sites like isohunt, it doesn’t go to azureus anymore, it goes to limewire. and i dont get anywhere because its like, “finding sources” until i close limewire and clear the download. can someone help me on how to download torrents with the new limewire?[/quote]

10 May 26, 2008 at 23:42 by meme

I am new to new to all the deferent choices for downloading mp3’s. Is there a deference between Bit torrent, dit torrent,and torrent, or is it the same thing? I had limewire but lost it somehow when i installed protection on my computer. I was about to upgrade to the new version that was said does not have a bug!

11 Jun 27, 2008 at 01:31 by nik

I DOWNLOADED BITTORRENT AND LIMEWIRE AND TRYING TO DOWN LOAD A MOVIE THROUGH LIME WIRE HOW DOES THAT WORK IT IS GOING SO SLOW

12 Jun 29, 2008 at 12:22 by andy

I used limewire for bittorent but i have same problem as nik-it is so slow and takes hours, i went bak to azurues and uttorrent ages ago

13 Jul 29, 2008 at 02:54 by tecben

PLZ Limewire is noting but a program for the dumb and mentally retarded. It is filled with spy ware and virus. Most people that use it have little or no protection for there computer.

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