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Why Is Limewire Acting Crap


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When i firsted installed lime wire about a week ago it gave me a download rate of about 150-200k a second which i thought was pretty bloody good. Now all i can get out of it is a tops a about 10k. What the hell is up with it.

Can any one give me any tips on boosting the performance. I have already downloaded lime wire pro off lime wire thats not helped ethier.

Or can some recommened a different shareware program i can use, because this just suck.

(Side note, computers are crap)

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Blueyonder, my ISP, provides access to newsgroups (inc. dodgy ones) for free as part of the service.

You really, really, REALLY shouldn't use Limewire. I know, first hand, so nobody can call bullshit, someone who got fined £2,000 by the uk phonographic industry or some such shit, based on evidence that they were using limewire. Don't do it.

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Limewire and torrents are completly different.

Limewire - Good for small downloads like songs etc, because of the small filesize allows you to get more kb per second, also it is good for new realease films.

Torrents - Crap for single songs but good for albums, also good for older films because they have more sources for them, also good for films etc.

Dan.

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Blueyonder, my ISP, provides access to newsgroups (inc. dodgy ones) for free as part of the service.

You really, really, REALLY shouldn't use Limewire. I know, first hand, so nobody can call bullshit, someone who got fined £2,000 by the uk phonographic industry or some such shit, based on evidence that they were using limewire. Don't do it.

Limewire is legal what are you on about.

Dan.

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Limewire is legal what are you on about.

Dan.

Do you live in a cave!?

If so, here's the deal: When you download a song from limewire pricisely £0.00 goes to the artist/record company that produced that song. They are not happy about this, and are currently in the process, both here and in America, of bringing class-action lawsuites against people.

Basically, if you get this letter through your letter box, you can go to court with £10,000 to pay for lawyers to fight your case against charges against you that add up to £10,000's, or you can settle out of court for £2,000. You choose the latter, as you have not a leg to stand on.

It has happened to a girl i know.

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Do you live in a cave!?

If so, here's the deal: When you download a song from limewire pricisely £0.00 goes to the artist/record company that produced that song. They are not happy about this, and are currently in the process, both here and in America, of bringing class-action lawsuites against people.

Basically, if you get this letter through your letter box, you can go to court with £10,000 to pay for lawyers to fight your case against charges against you that add up to £10,000's, or you can settle out of court for £2,000. You choose the latter, as you have not a leg to stand on.

It has happened to a girl i know.

It is legal to have Limewire on your computer.

It is illegal to use Limewire to download songs that you do not have the license to.

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Lets all pretend you didn't just say that...

Well, it is?

The program itself is completely legal as you can swap songs on a creative commons license (I think?) and not pay for them, of get free samples for a sample library.

It's when naughty people put songs with a 'All Rights Reserved' license on, that it becomes illegal.. :P

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if caught it would make sense to pay the actual price of the songs youve downloaded illegaly! otherwise they are could claim £10,000 from you if youve only ever downloaded 1 song!

i shall stop having a winge now!

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if caught it would make sense to pay the actual price of the songs youve downloaded illegaly! otherwise they are could claim £10,000 from you if youve only ever downloaded 1 song!

i shall stop having a winge now!

Yeah, that'd be a great detterant wouldn't it.

:huh:

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