Does anyone use LimeWire?

thatgirl
thatgirl Posts: 3,671
edited February 2006 in Technical Stuff and Help
im curious about this.
though it seems kinda shady to me, i would be afraid of getting a virus or something.

anyone?
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    i use it on my mac. it's ok. it's a HUGE resource drain. when it's running, nothing else on my computer works very well, so dont expect to download while browsing the web or talking to friends or anything. but other than that, i havent had any complications from it. works just fine when you're just looking to leave your computer on and download some stuff for a while.
  • thatgirl
    thatgirl Posts: 3,671
    soulsinging wrote:
    i use it on my mac. it's ok. it's a HUGE resource drain. when it's running, nothing else on my computer works very well, so dont expect to download while browsing the web or talking to friends or anything. but other than that, i havent had any complications from it. works just fine when you're just looking to leave your computer on and download some stuff for a while.
    so its legal?
    can you dl stuff to itunes?
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    All these p2p programs are legal. However, what you choose to share might not be.

    FrostWire is probably safer than LimeWire:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrostWire
  • Scubascott
    Scubascott Posts: 815
    soulsinging wrote:
    i use it on my mac. it's ok. it's a HUGE resource drain. when it's running, nothing else on my computer works very well, so dont expect to download while browsing the web or talking to friends or anything. but other than that, i havent had any complications from it. works just fine when you're just looking to leave your computer on and download some stuff for a while.

    Yep. What he said.

    The system does kind of grind to a halt when you use it. The nice thing is that it downloads from multiple sources at once, so if one user drops out, the connection will usually stay alive.
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  • paddy
    paddy Posts: 104
    thatgirl wrote:
    im curious about this.
    though it seems kinda shady to me, i would be afraid of getting a virus or something.

    anyone?
    I've used limewire.It's ok.Personally I've found warez to be better for me.


    http://www.warez.com
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  • red
    red Posts: 57
    I use it all the time. If a virus is found in a file, Limewire will automatically delete it. And if someone rated a file poorly, it gets deleted too. I've never had a problem with it, and I can still use my PC as always. Yes you can download to iTunes too.
  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    I've used Limewire for a good part of 3 years. I use it on my Mac at work. I've had to cut down on my downloading. However, I've never had a problem with it.

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  • thatgirl
    thatgirl Posts: 3,671
    so how is getting free songs legal?
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  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    I'm not sure, but if you find out will you tell PBW so she will get off my ass about downloading stuff.

    :D

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  • Echoes
    Echoes Posts: 1,279
    thatgirl wrote:
    so how is getting free songs legal?

    The sharing of personal files, as is the "intended" nature of P2P filesharing, is pretty much perfectly legal.

    However, when you are sharing someone else's intellectual property, such as a song or a movie or what have you, that is illegal. So while services like Limewire have their legal purposes and it is perfectly legal to have it on your computer, it is definately illegal to download a song using it.
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    so about warez and frostwire... do they work for macs?
  • Echoes
    Echoes Posts: 1,279
    warez probably will but it is pretty much known for being virus and porn city.

    I've never used frostwire, since I find I got much better results (and less spyware and shit) from Soulseek
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  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    Echoes wrote:
    warez probably will but it is pretty much known for being virus and porn city.

    I've never used frostwire, since I find I got much better results (and less spyware and shit) from Soulseek

    ah yes your the man, yup, limewire,winmx,kazaa etc, all shit, spyware ,viruses everything. soul seek is good, because you know its safe as you just do if you use it heh

    i never will put another p2p on my pc!

    take it easy

    Ed
  • brain of c
    brain of c Posts: 5,213
    red wrote:
    I use it all the time. If a virus is found in a file, Limewire will automatically delete it. And if someone rated a file poorly, it gets deleted too. I've never had a problem with it, and I can still use my PC as always. Yes you can download to iTunes too.


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  • Echoes
    Echoes Posts: 1,279
    I BrisK I wrote:
    ah yes your the man, yup, limewire,winmx,kazaa etc, all shit, spyware ,viruses everything. soul seek is good, because you know its safe as you just do if you use it heh

    i never will put another p2p on my pc!

    take it easy

    Ed

    Same to you. I actually prefer Bittorrent but I will definately soulseek stuff from my friends because it isusually just easier than manually sending them over MSN or AIM
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  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    Echoes wrote:
    Same to you. I actually prefer Bittorrent but I will definately soulseek stuff from my friends because it isusually just easier than manually sending them over MSN or AIM


    yeh bitorrent is awesome, i just go with that and soulseek :P
  • depopulationINC
    depopulationINC Posts: 2,074
    thatgirl wrote:
    so how is getting free songs legal?


    Canadian courts overturned the copyright laws foir downloading, so, it is legal for Canadians to download free music. There are many contries that it is legal in.
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  • Thunderclap
    Thunderclap Lexington, KY Posts: 108
    I've used Limewire for about a year now and I think it's great. It does slow down your system (to put it mildly) but one way to curb that is to limit the bandwidth that it has available to it for downloading/uploading. When it's set to 100% I pretty much have to find something else to do, but if I cut it back some then it's not as bad. Still not great, but I can read email and other smaller stuff.

    I definitely stay away from all warez sites, even now with Firefox. I learned the hard way :mad:. I went to a site looking for an MP3 back before Napster came out and as if the redirects weren't enough I got a shitload of popups and all other crap get dumped into my system including some kind of virus. But all's good now :cool:

    If you like warez then more power to ya. Knock yerself out kiddo :D
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  • El_Kabong
    El_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    i've used limewire. i still have it on my computer but very rarely turn it on/open it up...

    it does suck a lotof resources as others have said. i found a few things i couldn't find other places (like the video of ed and mike doing masters of war at bob dylan's birthday, fear's original version of of 'let's have a war' and some tool videos) and if you see a real shitty video like nelly's 'grillz' on tv and then later want to share the absurdity w/ your g/f you can find it on limewire :D

    mainly i use DC++ and bit torrents
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    I BrisK I wrote:
    yeh bitorrent is awesome, i just go with that and soulseek :P

    what is soulseek? ive got a new mac and want some sort of filesharing program. limewire usually had everything i wanted, but it was a big drain on a mac's resources for some reason. much worse than when i ran it on my pc. is soulseek better for a mac?

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