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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24887
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
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lavalarva
2011 SNES Champ
Joined: Dec 04 2006
Posts: 1929
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What is (or was) LimeWire? A torrent site for music?
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
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A program that allowed pedophiles to exchange pedophile things, basically.
It was a pretty good alternative to Napster after it was shut down, but quickly turned the way of the dark side, being full of viruses and the worst cretins known to man.
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Ice2SeeYou
Title: Sexual Tyrannosaurus
Joined: Sep 28 2008
Location: South of Heaven
Posts: 1761
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I occasionally downloaded stuff off there back circa 2004-ish. I don't recall getting a virus or anything from it. Kazaa was the worst for that. Kazaa was like banging an AIDS patient bareback during a herpies outbreak while sharing needles.
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Shut up, Dorn
Title: White Chocolate
Joined: Jan 04 2008
Location: Grate Whyte Norf
Posts: 1179
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Yeah, Limewire was like the third stage of illegal downloading, being preceded by Kazaa and Napster. Once I realized that I had a firewall and couldn't get to the pirate bay, I stopped downloading illeglally all together.
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Drew Linky
Wizard
Joined: Jun 12 2009
Posts: 4209
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Jesus christ, it took that long for them to order shut down?
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https://discord.gg/homestuck is where you can find me literally 99% of the time. Stop on by if you feel like it, we're a nice crowd. |
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Slayer1
Title: ,,!,, for you know who
Joined: Sep 23 2008
Posts: 4274
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I got SO MUCH Porn from Limewire... not so much music. Anyways, you could pretty much tell what was a virus and what wasn't, mostly because the titles or the size didn't make sense.
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Ghandi
Title: Alexz Aficionado
Joined: May 21 2008
Posts: 2889
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The government continues their business of killing fossils. This time it wasn't one in office anyway.
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
Posts: 5316
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This is at least 3 years too late...
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aeonic
Title: Sporadic Poster
Joined: Nov 19 2009
Location: Kissimmee, FL
Posts: 2747
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Ditto. The damage is done, and now there's like, what, thousands of P2P programs just like it except slightly better? They're capping the well after all the oil's flowed out of it.
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Nekkoru
Title: Polish Pickle Wench
Joined: Jan 25 2008
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Posts: 1319
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Plus, Limewire is only one of the dozens of Gnutella clients. Guess what - shutting down a *program* won't do jack shit. If you still want your child porno, infected MP3s and TV show episodes, you're not affected - there's Frostwire, BearShare, Shareaza and other gnutella clients that still work.
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You should totally check out the IRC channel.
While you're at it, go check out my band, Her Majesty's Heroines.
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The Opponent
Title: Forum Battle WINNER
Joined: Feb 24 2010
Location: The Danger Zone
Posts: 3495
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I still find people with Limewire once in a while. They invariably have plenty of malware. I never liked the Gnutella system, so I always depended on IRC and eMule to get whatever I needed until torrents were perfected. Speaking of which, I wonder how eMule is doing. I haven't touched it in five years.
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
Posts: 6749
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I'm not sad to see "Super Virus Downloader 3000*" go. However, my question is, how do you shut down an Open Source Program? Also, it's not like it is a master server controlled by a company. It a piece of software that allows your PC to link with thousands of others and share files. There is nothing to shut down. They can shut down the company that made it, but the software will still be out there to be used.
Not to mention, even if they wiped every trace of Limewire off the face of the earth, all it will do is move all the users to Frostwire, or one of the other dozens of clones.
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Alowishus
Joined: Aug 04 2009
Posts: 2515
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I was gonna say it but everyone already has!
They took their sweet ass time doing this. Does anyone even use limewire anymore? lol.
I did used to use it though to get music, i got music and music videos from it.
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Undeath
Title: Facepuncher of Asses
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: Here
Posts: 608
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I did, and now, how the hell am I supposed to steal music?
Seriously, I did use torrents, because I can not justify paying even $10 for a CD that has one or two songs I like and a bunch of filler. It's been a long time since I bought an album because I liked the whole thing.
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
Posts: 4844
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I remember trying to download music videos on Limewire. Thank you YouTube.
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Joe_Killer
Title: Professional Amature
Joined: Oct 10 2006
Location: Camp Lejeune, NC
Posts: 86
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Ugh, limewire. Good riddance. I won't miss playing "Try NOT to find porn" on limewire. Seems like no matter what you typed in the search, you got porn.
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E. Most Peninsula
Title: The Third Wheel
Joined: Mar 19 2010
Location: The Arid Void (Texas).
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Eh. I never had a problem with it. Got good music and there's no change in my computer, so I'm personally a little sad to see it go. Especially considering it shut down THE day I was going to get about 15 songs. Maybe I'll be productive for once. Probably not.
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"And on the other hand, you have different fingers."
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
Posts: 7287
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The only thing I ever used LimeWire/FrostWire for was pdfs of D&D game books each worth $30-$40.
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Undeath
Title: Facepuncher of Asses
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: Here
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I'm just curious as to what you guys were looking for. I've been using Limewire for YEARS and never got porn, and viruses were minimal. Although I mostly only got music and the occasional music video.
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"MARGARINE IS ONE MOLECULE AWAY FROM PLASTIC."
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E. Most Peninsula
Title: The Third Wheel
Joined: Mar 19 2010
Location: The Arid Void (Texas).
Posts: 91
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As I've said, I only got music. I've dredged up a treasure with "Rick+Mario" by I Fight Dragons. They're this chiptune-rock band. They're not particularly heavy on the chiptune, but it's there.
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Mr. Satire
Joined: Jun 08 2010
Location: Termina Field
Posts: 1541
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Never really used limewire. I did when I had my first iPod (nano 1G), but now I don't because the audio quality is shit in comparison to CD rips and music from the iTunes Store. Also, they never had album art. Sometimes I use TPB, but that's mostly for computer software, not music. Sometimes I still pirate music (on TPB) because I hate the RIAA.
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Joe_Killer
Title: Professional Amature
Joined: Oct 10 2006
Location: Camp Lejeune, NC
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| I'm just curious as to what you guys were looking for. I've been using Limewire for YEARS and never got porn, and viruses were minimal. Although I mostly only got music and the occasional music video. |
I tried searching Slayer and ended up getting something along the lines of " Pussy Slayer" WAY more than actual Slayer. Even COMPLETELY unrelated things came up. Searching for Motorhead should NOT have resulted in "18 YEAR OLD GETS PLOWED IN THE BACK OF AN RV BY HER MAN".
Actually, thinking back, I can't remember if it was kazaa or limewire that was a haven for viruses.
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Mr. Satire
Joined: Jun 08 2010
Location: Termina Field
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[quote="Joe_Killer"]
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| Actually, thinking back, I can't remember if it was kazaa or limewire that was a haven for viruses. |
I think both.
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