Is it Limewire free for download?

Answer 1

For the love of god would nobody use limewire have have had to reformat 7 computers of my friends now because of viruses it is a rubbish program that is open to every virus, spyware etc. there is no point building up a collection with limewire will will just lose it to a virus, if you must download either do it legally from www.itune.com google video www.tv.com etc. or if you must go illegally download use bit torrent and tusted sites like mininova.org. these are managed and is there is a problem with a file it is removed striaght away. this is illegal and i in no way condon this action but please don't use limewire it is really bad exspecially if you don't know what you are doing. you have been warned and i am sure you will ignore me but trust me it is more hassle than it is worth do you really want to reformate your computer and loss all your work.

Answer 2

Hey there,
I really like Limewire, I'm actually an avid user of it. If I want to download a music file I use Limewire always. you should get limewire too. It's a good peer to peer software if you have to download mp3, movies, videos or documents. Here you can find a good place where to download Limewire: http://bitly.com/VMeAww
Limewire is a safe and reliable program but like all peer to peer program you have to be careful of what you are donwloading from it. You always have to be cautious about what you download.
Don't use torrents/downloads from other sites, they might be backdoored.
It works very well.
Bye Bye

Answer 3

Limwire has two versions or types:

The Free Version & The Pro Version.

The free version can be downloaded absolutely free and the Pro versionm lets you download files, music and more a lot easier or faster but as always with a price to pay..

Answer 4

Absolutely! Go to www.limewire.com to get the free version. Everything you download from it is free (although it is possible - as I am in no doubt you know - to illegally download music, movies, programs etc.). If people tell you that you get malware (viruses, spyware, etc.) from it, you should laugh in their faces - only idiots get malware from LimeWire when they try to download files with the size of 0.0KB or perhaps 127.7KB for an entire movie - common sense tells you whether files are viruses.

Answer 5

Yes... unless you count the cost of cleaning the attached viruses and spyware it installs, the cost of the additional memory you will have to purchase for the PC because Limewire is running in the background using all your system resources, the court cost and attorney fees to defend yourself when the recording industry sues you for copyright violations, the fines and possible jail time when found guilty of theft... but yes, it is free.

Answer 6

yeah

LimeWire is a free and open source peer-to-peer file sharing client for the Gnutella network. It is 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 therefore 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 (LimeWire PRO) sold for a fee of US$18.88, which the developers claim offers faster downloads[1]. 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 Lime Wire LLC. Uninstallation of LimeWire would not remove LimeShop. With the removal of all bundled software in LimeWire 3.9.4 (released 4.20.2004) [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, Lime Wire LLC may stop distributing LimeWire due to the outcome of MGM v. Grokster. However, new versions are being released (4.10 released on March 18) 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.

Answer 7

Yes, but be sure to not allow sharing files from your computer. I am very addicted to limewire

Answer 8

Yup it's free. You can download it with Limewire.com (for the free version) for the ProVersion you need to purchase it. Warning though that it may be illegal dependent on the country that you came from.

Answer 9

Yes theres a free version as well as the premium version that can be paid for.

Answer 10

Yeah I had the free version on another PC. It wasn't 'all that' so I never got it on this one. Although at first I thought it was cool...