Limewire

[fiona1964]

I have just heard

that limewire got closed down after 4 years of taking them to court.



What is your thought on this?



1 Did they do the right thing by closing it down?

2. Should the RIAA Keep going on closing down other sites like Limewire?





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[Ashley]

Really, I've used sites like BearShare and I think I even tried Limewire once, but in all honesty, if you really want a given song that bad, use a shop where you have to pay for songs like iTunes, or better yet, go out and get the actual CD. I have gotten CDs where I've liked all the songs before, and even if I don't like all the songs, I usually end up liking only half of the CD. I personally find it better to just rip the songs you want from the CD and putting them on your Ipod or MP3 player that way, but that's just me.

 

[Flurry]

You see, its all about the Record Execs and their need to have the Ka-Ching. They feel threatened by things like Limewire.

 

[Cranos]

Crap, I liked limewire for when I just wanted a few songs from an artist. Downloading the whole album is annoying when most of the songs are crap.



As for paying, I can't even find half of the artists I really like in shops. For the old artists they always only have compilation albums and the more obscure ones can't be found at all. Same on iTunes, and I'm not able to buy stuff off the internet anyway. I support the bands I love by going to their concerts, the money they make on CDs goes to the record company anyway.

 

[McConnaughay]

Although, I hate to be the darkened and rather more justifying toward Limewire member of Off Topix, however, paying for albums that you usually have absolutely no understanding of whether or not they'll be horrendous and or at least borderline decent, truly just to have more cash within the wallets of people that make millions upon millions more than you, whenever you likely work harder, especially with singers like Kesha, who weren't able to garner their success through their own talent thus provoking them to utilize auto-tune, whilst at the same time you could have easily garnered the albums off of the internet, seems unfair. If an album were to have been amusing to myself, I'd eventually purchase it partially out of support for the artist but mostly just to actually be able to showoff it as part of my collection. Is Lime Wire and those like it a bad product, truly, I don't think that it is, and if anything I'd go as far as stating that it's making things fair.

 

[Cranos]

Shutting it down is also so useless, anyone using it will just look for an alternative (aka frostwire). No one's going to start paying just because limewire got shut down and there's no way to stop illegal downloading anyway.

 

[Kasynlie]

Looks like all the juice has finally been squeezed from LimeWire.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Lol I remembered that I had Limewire on my computer. I go to open it and seen this:

Guess I will have to buy music now. :\

 

[Flurry]

Lol I remembered that I had Limewire on my computer. I go to open it and seen this:

Guess I will have to buy music now. :\

Trust me, there are plenty of other ways to get a hold of the music you want.

 

[Dennis]

Yeah it's a shame and not for the reasons you may think. Limewire was infested with Trojans and Malware in almost every p2p file that was carefully examined and re-examined.



I have been using Frostwire for over around 6 months now and am a happy recipient. The songs seem to be of high quality, there are no viruses and Frostwire is Limewire Pro in a FREE nutshell.



Now, all the hackers and male-ware producers are going to come running to Frostwire and my once happy community is inevitable to become a danger zone...

 

[Temerit]

Private Music Torrent Trackers with around half a million music torrents are the way to go

But they are extremely hard to get into (invite only)

 

[Sinon]

I just use Google. *shrugs* Type in the artist/album and add Mediafire to the search and boom, I have the album I'm after.

 

[Masri]

I used to use Dirpy (site that records sound from Youtube videos) and I'd put the mp3 into my Automatically Add to iTunes folder. But it closed, so I use mp3 rocket now.



But I use other recording sites when mp3 rocket doesn't have my music.





Oh, and people will start buying it: a lot of people at my school already have, they actually thought that LimeWire was the only free music downloader

 

[Amazing]

Its funny though. 80% of the music artists out there make a living (ironically) off people illegally downloading their music from torrents and limewire. People dont want to buy the albums, but when they are out touring, they certainly show up to the concerts and buy the tickets.



In reality, they make money with or without limewire. I think Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge said that he would rather give the music out for free then to have to deal with fighting illegal sources of downloading music. Why cant the rest of the music industry look at it this way. Its also funny because in reality, bands should pay us to listen and support their band. We are technincally advertising for them when we tell someone Hey, listen to this band.



Anyways, i hated limewire. Torrents are the best.

 

[Temerit]

I never bothered with limewire, Waffles and What ftw.

 

[Hulk's iconHulk]

I used to like Limewire until it was murdered by all the hugs in the world. :3 Now it's dead from suffercation.

 

[xVertii]

I think this is ridiculous because free music will never stop. People will find new ways, and most are already starting to use Frostwire. It will Never end. They cannot stop it, and that is the truth..

 

[Corleone]

Glad to hear they're being shut down. Limewire destroyed my Dell with a virus. Have went HP since.