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The TVClubHouse: General Discussions: 2004 Aug - Oct: Limewire users admin

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Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Tuesday, October 05, 2004 - 5:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What's it all about?

Tashakinz
Member

11-13-2002

Tuesday, October 05, 2004 - 7:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It's like Kazaa - it's a p2p network.

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Tuesday, October 05, 2004 - 11:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It's used for illegally downloading music.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Tuesday, October 05, 2004 - 2:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hmmmm. How can that happen? Can't they shut the site down then?

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Tuesday, October 05, 2004 - 5:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
If I remember correctly, it is operating from a European country. They haven't shut down all the sites. I don't know why Napster was taken to court, but other sites are still operating. I assume Napster, being the first, was the largest.

Tashakinz
Member

11-13-2002

Wednesday, October 06, 2004 - 4:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Napster had a "centralized" server delivery system and therefore could be directly attacked by the RIAA whereas the more recent p2p's have "de-centralized" servers which makes it more difficult to pin down just who's running the operation.

Jed245
Member

11-01-2002

Monday, October 11, 2004 - 2:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Limewire, Kazaa, DC++, bearshare, flyfliles, scourexchange, imesh, napster are all p2p (peer to peer) programs.

The are used alot for downloading music illegally, but, there are other uses. Most allow you to download software, pictures, text files ect ect.

The software files are for the most part "cracked" programs and illegal to download. The text files range from random files on someone's computer to windows related text files.

Lots of things in there about hacking and other things that we don't really need to read. The pics are a variety of funny pics/ celebs and your basic nudies.

Most p2p software doesn't offer anything legal that's useful.

The RIAA went after napster as tashkinz said cause they were an easy target. After scour exchange p2p creators got smarter and only allowed for file sharing and searching.

Then the RIAA took the fight to the individual p2p user. They can't do anything about a program that allows us to share files. But, they apparently can do something about us downloading the files they "own".

In general I'd say stay away from p2p software unless your into free games/programs/music/movies the illegal way. But, keep in mind they do track that stuff and will eventually find ya.

And even then you have to becareful, because there are alot of virus/trojans that float around in the p2p world.

er that was kinda my basic run down on it.