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 [...]

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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Comments to “Limewire To Include BitTorrent Support”

nathan Says:
June 22nd, 2006 at 5:00 pm

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

Ernesto Says:
June 22nd, 2006 at 5:39 pm

The more bittorrent support, the better

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

Simran Says:
June 22nd, 2006 at 6:23 pm

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!

Ernesto Says:
June 22nd, 2006 at 6:56 pm

Personally I don’t mind having a single application to handle my torrents. I think bittorrent needs apps like ÂµTorrent 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.

king2 Says:
June 26th, 2006 at 3:15 am

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

nathan Says:
June 26th, 2006 at 3:07 pm

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.

Shnarbis Says:
December 26th, 2007 at 8:53 pm

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?

george thorne Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 1:32 pm

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.

george thorne Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

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

meme Says:
May 26th, 2008 at 11:42 pm

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!

nik Says:
June 27th, 2008 at 1:31 am

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

andy Says:
June 29th, 2008 at 12:22 pm

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

tecben Says:
July 29th, 2008 at 2:54 am

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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