LimeWire - The Fastest File Sharing Program on the Planet
LimeWire 4.18.8
LimeWire version 4.18.8
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LimeWire 4.18.6
LimeWire version 4.18.6
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Built-in media player
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Windows, Mac and Linux compatible
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FREE tech support
FREE updates for up to 6 months
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LimeWire version 4.18.3
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No spyware, adware, or bundled software
Built-in media player
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FREE tech support
FREE updates for up to 6 months
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LimeWire 4.18.2
LimeWire version 4.18.2
LimeWire PRO get turbo-chargedFastest P2P downloads on the planet
No spyware, adware, or bundled software
Built-in media player
Downloads from multiple hosts
International versions
Windows, Mac and Linux compatible
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Turbo-charged downloads
Connections to more sources
More Reliable Downloads
Special PRO only skin
FREE tech support
FREE updates for up to 6 months
Get Pro for a single payment of only $21.95
Get Basic Extend your PRO benefits!
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LimeWire version 4.16.7
LimeWire PRO get turbo-charged
Fastest P2P downloads on the planet
No spyware, adware, or bundled software
Built-in media player
Downloads from multiple hosts
International versions
Windows, Mac and Linux compatible
Optimized search results
Turbo-charged downloads
Connections to more sources
More Reliable Downloads
Special PRO only skin
FREE tech support
FREE updates for up to 6 months
Get Pro for a single payment of only $21.95
Extend your PRO benefits!
Get PRO for 1 year for only $34.95!
limewire.com
LimeWire still rules the P2P world. It is by far the most popular single P2P application, appearing on 36.4 percent of the machines surveyed as of last September. LimeWire also accounts for the overwhelming majority of Gnutella use among the top 13 of the 152 applications found on PCs. Gnutella was the protocol of choice for 40.5 percent of the PCs at the end of the period covered by the survey.
Arstechnica.com
Study: LimeWire remains top P2P software; uTorrent fast-rising No. 2
LimeWire, a grizzled veteran of the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing scene, remains the most popular software for exchanging music, video and software much of it pirated through the Internet, according to a study released Wednesday.
LimeWire was used on 17.8% of PCs in September last year, according to the latest Digital Media Desktop Report. Since about half of surveyed PCs have at least one peer-to-peer sharing application installed, that gives LimeWire a 36.4% share more than three times the 11.3% share of the next-most-popular client, 5Torrent.
The report is a collaboration of digital music consultancy BigChampagne, utility software provider PC Pitstop and Digital Music News. More than 100,000 Windows PCs were polled each month, with a total of 1.67 million machines polled during the 12 months.
The first version of LimeWire was released in 2000 as an alternative to the pioneering Napster MP3 sharing network. Its contemporaries, such as KaZaa, Morpheus, FastTrack, SoulSeek, Audiogalaxy and (of course) Napster, have long since faded, though Napster now operates today as a small service dealing strictly in legal downloads, and Audiogalaxy evolved into the Rhapsody subscription service.
Overseen by New York-based Lime Wire LLC, the open-source LimeWire software comes in free and professional versions. The latter costs $21.95 and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
LimeWire's ongoing dominance is surprising for a number of reasons. Two generations of college students often characterized as the most avid file sharers have graduated since its release. Indeed, today's college freshman would've been just 10 years old when LimeWire was first released.
Moreover, LimeWire long relied solely on the slower Gnutella network, which made it less suitable for exchanging large video files such as high-definition TV shows or movies. LimeWire only recently released an upgrade that lets users search and exchange files via BitTorrent.
Computerworld.com
LimeWire Store
Welcome to the LimeWire Store: They are so new, They are beta!
LimeWire are open for business, but by no means fully stocked. LimeWire will be adding thousands of tracks daily from across all genres- indie rock will cuddle with alt country, jazz will spoon with metal, and hip-hop will get serious with emo. LimeWire's DRM-free MP3s are compatible with all standard MP3 players [even those from another fruit company] and will be available a la carte or through low-cost prepaid plans. Come in, LimeWire are glad you're here!
store.limewire.com
LimeWire
Version 4.16.6
The latest and greatest new additions to LimeWire
BitTorrent Support Built-In
Many ways to get files -- all in one application!
Better Control Over Shared Folders
Revamped sharing options give you finer control over what goes onto the network.
System Tray Notifications
See when your downloads finish, no matter what app you're in.
Mojito DHT (Distributed Hash Table) Support
Better locates those rare files and makes it easier to resume stalled downloads.
TLS (Transport Layer Security) Support
Keep your connections safe & secure.
LimeWire 4.14.12
LimeWire version 4.14.12 Features
4.14.12 (12.03.2007)
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- Fix a rare download crash
4.14.11 (12.03.2007)
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- Fix updates on Windows Vista
- Add support for private flag in torrent files
- Use TLS when servicing connectback requests
- Update DHT code to let nodes connect sooner
- Fix Alternate Location parsing bug
- Return Tiger Tree roots in responses
LimeWire 4.14.10
LimeWire is the world's fastest P2P file-sharing application for all types of computer files, including music, video, pictures, games, and text documents. Other features include dynamic querying, file previews during download, advanced techniques for locating rare files, and an easy, clean user interface.
LimeWire's new spam blocker gets rid of junk results, and automatic updates will keep you sharing faster than ever with the latest version. You can search for Creative Commons and Weedshare licensed files, and publish your own creative works with Creative Commons licensing. LimeWire continues its guarantee of no adware or spyware. Version 4.14.10 includes unspecified updates.
LimeWire is a free and open source Gnutella peer-to-peer network client released under the GNU General Public License. The program allows users to share files using the Gnutella peer-to-peer protocol. It 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.
LimeWire is written in Java and hence runs on any computer with the Java virtual machine installed. To facilitate installation for casual users, the developers release installation packages for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and for Linux, in RPM format. Classic Mac OS (Mac OS 9 and before) support has been dropped with LimeWire 4.0.10.
LimeWire uses the SHA-1 and Tiger tree hash cryptographically secure hash functions to ensure that downloaded data is uncompromised. Although researchers have identified possible vulnerabilities in the SHA1 algorithm, because LimeWire does not rely on SHA1 alone these vulnerabilities do not have many adverse implications for LimeWire's verification of downloaded files.
The Windows version of LimeWire installer includes a stripped-down version of Sun's Java installer which will download and install version 1.5 of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) if it detects the machine doesn't have Java, or has a version of Java below version 1.4.1.
Lime Wire LLC, the developer of LimeWire, distributes two versions of the program; a basic, free version, and an enhanced version sold for a small fee, which the developers claim [1] offers faster downloads. Prior to April 2004, the free version of LimeWire was distributed with a bundled program called "LimeShop" (a variant of TopMoxie), which was considered by computer security experts to be spyware. Among other things, LimeShop monitored online purchases in order to redirect sales commissions to LimeWire LLC. Uninstallation of LimeWire would not remove LimeShop. With the removal of all bundled software in LimeWire 4.0 (released May 14, 2004[2]), these objections were addressed.
Being open source, LimeWire has spawned several forks, including LionShare, an experimental software development project at Penn State University, FrostWire, and Acquisition, a popular Macintosh-based Gnutella client with a proprietary interface. Researchers at Cornell University developed a reputation management add-in called Credence that allows users to distinguish between "genuine" and "suspect" files before downloading them.
According to a 28 June 2005 report in The New York Times, LimeWire LLC may stop distributing LimeWire due to the outcome of MGM v. Grokster. However, new versions are being released (4.9 released on August 26) with smarter search results, optimized downloads and other features. On September 25, it was reported that Lime Wire LLC was working on a version of the program which will refuse to share files that lack valid license information. [3]
An October 12 2005 report [4] states that some of the LimeWire open source contributors have forked the project and called it FrostWire. The FrostWire project has a beta release, which is claimed to be equivalent in power to the nonfree version of Limewire. The FrostWire developers emphasize that they will never place any sharing-related restrictions on the client.
LimeWire is a free file sharing Gnutella client for Windows, Mac, OSX, Linux. You can search, download, and share all files, including MP3,OGG,WMA,WMF,WAV,MPG,MPEG,MOV,AVI,ASF,JPG,GIF,RM,HTM,HTML,TXT,SWF and more. Incredible graphics, high performance, and ease of use make LimeWire the world's most sophisticated peer to peer file sharing program.
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