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Re: Trivia section

I noticed that in the "Trivia" section, there's a line of text that says:

You CAN download Limewire Pro through Limewire Basic. Use the download Programs and type in "Limewire Pro"

I do not know whether this type of "trivia" is allowed on Misplaced Pages, seeing as how it is telling the reader how to get LimeWire PRO for free. --Ampersand2006 01:29, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Since LimeWire (both basic and pro) is released under the GPL the pro version can legally be downloaded without paying for it. Weither or not it should go in the trivia section is another question. Blokker 1999 20:28, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

"In 2002, "System Of A Down" released an album entitled "Steal This Album!"." While it may be trivia, it's only tangentially related to Limewire. I'm removing it. Gh05t 00:44, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

First to support firewalls? no

"LimeWire was the first file sharing program to support firewall-to-firewall file transfers, a feature introduced in version 4.2, which was released in November 2004."

I am removing this because the eDonkey protocol supported this through the LowID concept and clients such as eMule have been around since 2002. 24.6.99.30 20:37, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm not familiar with eDonkey but from the information I can find, the eDonkey protocol does not have such a feature at all. LimeWire supports a so-called "reliable UDP" (RUDP). Establishing such RUDP connections usually requires an "non-firewalled" third-party to "punch holes" into each others' firewall i.e., establish a NAT route. Albeit it also works directly as long as the peers are only unable to accept TCP connections but can accept unsolicited UDP packets. This third-party peer does not transfer or proxy any file data. The two "firewalled" peers will be directly "connected" over UDP and exchange the files just as they would over TCP i.e., using HTTP. That means, this feature has nothing to do with firewalled peers uploading to non-firewalled peers. The latter feature always existed in Gnutella i.e., PUSH messages and so-called push file transfers. In any case, LimeWire was definitely the first Gnutella application to have this feature because they introduced this RUDP. At least BearShare supports it as well. --82.141.61.54 11:32, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Recent Vandalism

Here is the vandal: http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=210.213.251.157 It is from a range, so if anyone knows where to contact admins to solve this problem, it would be much appreciated. Either do it yourself, or tell me how to do it. I makes no difference to me how its done, just that it is done, and soon. Darthnader37 05:26, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Be my guest. Talk page has already had a final warning template. Be sure to link to the article. Chris Cunningham 09:43, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Done. Chris Cunningham 12:23, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Porn

I Think It Should Be Noted That, When Searching For Anything. The User Is Randomly Barraged With Pornographic Files, Even If The User Hasn't Searched For Anything Pornographic Or Just 1 Word Mildly Pornographic Eg: "Girl" "Man" "Bed".(Id Rather Be Hated For Who I Am, Than Loved For Who I Am Not 04:39, 4 February 2007 (UTC))

That's because the protocol does not apply any restrictions to possible results and there are a lot of spammers. In real life, if you asked someone for the time, he might also respond "Please visit my website <URL>" instead of telling you the desired answer. Gnutella is no different, except that such spamming would make virtually no sense in real life or endanger the spammer's health. --82.141.61.54 11:46, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

LIMEWIRE

DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!! Full of bugs that infiltrate your OS. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.100.2.192 (talk) 13:26, 4 February 2007 (UTC).

I Think Your Right, But The Temptation For Free Downloads Is Far To Strong, If I Get Internet Security Will That Download Only Safe Files? Thanks (Id Rather Be Hated For Who I Am, Than Loved For Who I Am Not 02:07, 5 February 2007 (UTC))

FAKE MP3s and Music

Recentley there have been loads of 'dodgy' looking MP3s and WMAs when searching for music. If you look for ANY song by ANY artist theres always files like: Steven Speilberg gets a prank call, Wicked remix, Track 06, Totally hip track, Rare recording, Eighties Classic. But when you hover over them it says "Content: Not related to (search term)". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.43.225.61 (talk) 21:56, 20 February 2007 (UTC).

Limewire countersuit

Knowing how Wiki encourages using sources of information other than blogs, when I saw your citation for Limewire's countersuit I went looking all over the web for more reliable sources. It seemed to me that news of this magnitude would have been splashed all over the place. I tried the archives of NY Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Chicago Sun-Times, LA Times... and I found only one possible corroboration of this claim. I use the word "possible" because the NY Times displays only the first paragraph of an archived story before you have to pay for it.

My last attempt to verify the incident was to visit CNET.com. Surely they would have reported it. And finally, I found a nonblog source:

http://news.com.com/Lime+Wire%2C+squeezed%2C+files+countersuit/2100-1030_3-6119646.html

JimH443 19:43, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Spyware ?

Comparison_of_file_sharing_applications change the limewire to "has spyware" no-> yes. is there a base for this or is it vandalism/error? :Leuk he 10:58, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism. Le sigh. (I wonder if articles on, say, Armenian pottery attract as many trolls and idiots as free software ones.) Chris Cunningham 12:12, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Several years ago, it contained spyware i.e. apparently the developers did not know that the bundled software was spyware. They removed this when they became aware of this and since then LimeWire has not been bundled with any software. Some individuals don't get over this or have a (personal) grudge against LimeWire and falsely claim that it still contains spyware. There are also a lot of scammers and LimeWire rip-offs (Google's AdSense is your friend or the opposit). These may indeed contain spyware or worth and some people might confuse this stuff with the original LimeWire software. --82.141.61.54 11:52, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Upload Music?

How do you upload or put music onto limewire.. because ive made a few songs (remixes) and i want my name to get out there and people to listen to my stuff?

Thanks for any help. Wreckin 06:37, 24 February 2007 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wreckin (talk • contribs) 06:36, 24 February 2007 (UTC).

You should be able to just put your own music in the Shared Music folder (defined in LimeWire > Tools > Options). Make sure the option is selected to share that folder and allow connections for Uploads. I personally suggest, however, that you get influence from sites like MySpace, because that is how Lily Allen and the Arctic Monkeys got started - by sharing their music on there. Unless you have good ID3 tags then no-one will look for your files anyway (well, probably not really). Good luck! :) --rjcuk 22:01, 26 February 2007 (UTC)