what is limewire?

Question

what exactly it do?

Answer 1

Limewire and Limewire Pro is a peer to peer file sharing program similar to Napster, WinMX, Kazaa, but is not a pay download site.

Depending on your internet connection, and the internet connection of the online users logged onto the programs, how it works is you search the music files that are available from the people that are currently online, find what you are looking for and download it. You are downloading directly from their computer, to yours so anytime you do that you always run the risk of viruses.

Anytime you download music you are definately at risk for copyright infringement. The program it's self is a good program for music downloads, it works quite well.

Do the research on file sharing definately before file sharing of music, and make your own judgement as to using it.

Answer 2

Limewire is a p2p file sharing software that allows people to share music, video, photo and other files for free. Limewire is one of the most popular p2p softwares but has alot of copyrighted material that is not supposed to be given out for free, which is why it is illegal. Most of the files have viruses, so the software has been crashing alot of computers.

Answer 3

LimeWire is a free, 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

Answer 4

LimeWire is a peer-to-peer file sharing client for the Java Platform, which uses the Gnutella network to locate and transfer files. Released under the GNU General Public License, Limewire is free software.

Written in the Java programming language, LimeWire runs on any computer with a Java Virtual Machine installed. Installers are provided for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and RPM-based Linux distributions. Support for Mac OS 9 and other previous versions was dropped with the release of LimeWire 4.0.10.

LimeWire uses the SHA-1 and tiger tree hash cryptographic hash functions to ensure that downloaded data is uncompromised. Although researchers have identified possible vulnerabilities in the SHA-1 algorithm, because LimeWire does not rely on SHA-1 alone, these vulnerabilities do not have many adverse implications for LimeWire's verification of downloaded files.[citation needed]

Limewire offers the sharing of its library through Digital Audio Access Protocol. As such, when LimeWire is running, any files shared will be detectable on the local network by DAAP-enabled devices (eg. iTunes).

Lime Wire LLC, the developer of LimeWire, distributes two versions of the program; a basic version for free, and an enhanced version sold for a fee of US$18.88 (£9.78) which, as the developers claim, offers faster downloads. This is accomplished by facilitating direct connection with up to 4 hosts of an identical searched file at any one time, whereas the free version is limited to a maximum of 2 hosts. 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 on April 20, 2004), these objections were addressed.

Since it is free and open source software, LimeWire has spawned several forks, including LionShare, an experimental software development project at Penn State University, and Acquisition, a Mac OS X–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. An October 12, 2005 report states that some of LimeWire's open source contributors have forked the project and called it FrostWire.

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.

The current beta version of LimeWire incorporates a rewrite of Limewire's handling of metadata and now includes BitTorrent support.

According to a June 28, 2005, report in The New York Times, Lime Wire LLC was considering ceasing distribution LimeWire due to the outcome of MGM v. Grokster. On September 25, 2005, 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. Neither of these events occurred, and as of March 2007, it is still possible to download LimeWire and share copyrighted files.

On August 4, 2006, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued LimeWire, alleging that it was profiting from unauthorized downloads.[6] On September 25, 2006 LimeWire countersued the RIAA for antitrust violations.

On May 12, 2006, the BBC reported that "Limewire" and "Lime wire" were among search terms likely to return links to malware from an Internet search engine.

Answer 5

limewire is a p2p sharing programme.through which u can search files,video etc.But u must be careful as some files may contain virus.go to limewire.com for more information.

Answer 6

Limewire is where you go if you want to give your PC a virus.

Answer 7

It's a person to person sharing program. Basically, people upload stuff for other people to download, and vice versa.


It's basically a "legal" version of Napster.

Answer 8

its a peer to peer sharing of files such as videos, music and other files.

Answer 9

It's a P2P software. U can download it from http://www.limeware.com/ .................It does to help share videos, audios, documents, programs etc.

Answer 10

Illegal!