Limewire programs?

which one is best? i've seen limewire, lemonwire, frostwire.... which one should i get?

 

All i can say is that they are full of viruses and illegal downloads.

Just keep in mind, that discussion of illegal activity is against forum rules.

 

cant alot of songs be downloaded with licenses and such, i believe the ones with licenses show up with the limewire "logo" beside them in the download menu or somethin? idk...i got tired of messing with them, but i thought some songs could be downloaded with licenses

 

I would suggest buying songs from Amazon.com.
You can buy them for significantly less than the iTunes store.
Limewire, and other similar programs, as flipflire said, is full all kinds of dangerous stuff.

 

I favour soulseek for such things as alot of the users put their own music out on there , but as previously stated discussing it is against forum rules, and if amazons store works in your country i recommend using that cheap DRM free music and its alot safer than p2p

 

Limewire is a great file sharing program and that's all it is. How people use it is the problem. It's up to the individual to use it lawfully or unlawfully.

 

i personally like frostwire

 

Seconded. I got sick of Limewire because it would always get stuck "not fully connected" to their server.

 

Be careful, you are playing with fire.
Potentially illegal discussion - and against the forum rules as stated before.

Otherwise:
If you want music, buy CDs - they are also a good backup when you copy them to your computer and play the files off the HDD.
PS: check Amazon before going to shops - CDs there can be much cheaper.

 

Limewire sucks. I used to get all kinds of trojan warnings on my AV.

 

No, they are not.

Those warnings were probably for the files that you downloaded, and not LimeWire, unless you downloaded LimeWire from some untrusted source.

 

You know, I think, at least the posts I see, the comments you make are of little use.

And off topic - Opera has a sever bug - I just found one...
(true)

Basically:
Just throwing in statements without backing does little to resolve a question.
Also - because your anti virus software doesn't notice a trojan etc. it doesn't mean there isn't one on your computer.

Different Antivirus softwares and Internet Security Suites have different properties, are better at different things.

And you cannot deny that there are many people who wish to cause harm and will thus upload a file containing a virus.
There are also people who don't have an antivirus and whose files got corrupted by a virus without their knowledge.

Still - maybe it is time for a moderator to close this thread before it goes against the forum rules?

Oh, and PS: I believe Flipfire knows a lot more about computers than you do.

 

Compact discs are a colossal waste of space. They are also not very cost effective, and significantly reduce choice for the consumer. I'm not going to pay $10 or whatever for a disc full of songs where I only really want one or two, when I can go to Amazon.com and download high-quality MP3s with no DRM for under a buck each. Apple has had the "iTunes Plus" DRM-less stuff for a while, and they are starting to scrap DRM across much of their library.

The days where a music collection took a real physical space in a person's house has become an unnecessary thing. My entire music collection fits on an iPod Touch 32GB, which I can carry in my pocket. It also has internet and a very cool solitaire game. The bookshelf does not have a solitaire game.

 

No need to close this thread (yet).
The question on what the best p2p program is, is valid.
Silas points out that the actual p2p programs aren't loaded with malware but the 'hive', from which one can choose files, is ( about 30%).
It's not about the program used but what it's used for that makes it potentially dangerous and possibly 'non-debatable'.
Cheers.

 

There are lots of virus and nasty stuff lurking around LimeWire, I used it a couple times then uninstalled it. Its just full of crap.

Silas is correct, LiveWire the program is virus free. Whats on there is a different story.

 

Oh, I have bought CDs for just one song - and later found that I liked others on it too.
One difference - you HDD will fail - it must - do CDs fail? (apart from physical damage)

 

If you know what you are doing with a p2p software you unlikely to runacross too many viruses. If you look at filetypes, file sizes and know how to search for something to highlight the spam results(type in name of a song backwards etc.) before you download you can tell alot about the content you are downloading before you download it.

You do run across alot of illegal content though so for that reason you should look to other methods for obtaining whatever it is you want to download.

 

I couldn't care less. Maybe if you read a post instead of seeing it, I could.

What's sever?

LimeWire is free of all the crapware, it is well documented.

Secondly, personally, I have NOD32-x64, Super AntiSpyware, A2, Windows Defender and Comodo Firewall installed, and all are updated (so is my Windows Vista Ultimate x64), and they're all running in the background, and I've yet to find a trojan/virus on my notebook. And yes, I use LimeWire regularily, and uTorrent too. It's about common sense, and how one goes about using it. But yes, there are people who don't have it.

Then it's their fault for not having an anti-virus installed, when there are so many of them available free of cost. If they don't want to install one for whatever reasons, the least they can do is surf safely/download from trusted source.

And I believe that I'll be going to bed with Gisele Bündchen tonight, except, I might have a better shot!

 

Statements in relation to a post with no explanation or no evidence are not helpful.

Maybe you heard of typing errors - but I believe you're English may not be good enough to understand words with a typo in them.

So what do I care about your personal life? I don't.

 

Silas, your most recent post may have just proved him right. There was almost no content in that post.

 

There was. Read -

Like has been said (and missed by DetlevCM) many times in this thread, the program (LimeWire) itself has no virus in it, but the file that users download might. flipfire said -

I replied -

And then began this guy's rant.

And yet you go ahead and make this post! This is getting off topic.

 

Buying a CD with the hope of liking more than one song isn't very good odds. Besides, iTunes among others will happily let you listen to samples of the music. One does not have to pay now and maybe like it later.

You ask if CDs fail. I'm not sure what your point is. The benefits of using a hard drive or iPod-like solid state device for media storage far, far outweighs the perceived longevity of a CD. Besides, CDs only retain their longevity when they are not used. Discs that are regularly used will develop scratches and distortions faster than one that's kept in a case. The one in the case doesn't sound quite so good though.

 

Last time I checked HDDs fail sometimes unexpectedly...

It is true that CDs continually in use will develop scratches - but there is nothing wrong with buying a CD, copying it to your HDD and then keeping the CD in your bookcase/on a shelf.
(That's what I do)
And about listening to samples of music - go to a shop in Germany, Saturn, they have a huge online library (at lower quality) where you can listen to about 20seconds from the middle of a song in store - or online on their website.
Amszon.com lets you listen to samples on a lot of CDs too.
I know that HMV Uk is a tad behind the times... (they only have 1 CD player, in some cases broken...)

But otherwise I see a lot of positive aspects in CDs.
Also, CDs generally don't cause DRM trouble - if your HDD fails or you migrate to a new computer, CDs aren't a problem, music with DRM is.