Court Shuts Down LimeWire Music-sharing Service

-1 by wotak , meep you if you care about limewire

I don't care about limewire, but I do care about 'A U.S. federal judge...granted the music industry[sic]'s request to shut down X.'

If you had a copy of Limewire laying around and you just wanted a particular song and not a whole album or discography you could have it in less than a minute from search to done.

I'm a big fan of instant gratification.

fyi: abmp3 and beemp3 are good for that.

Also, in torrents you can set a single track on high priority and get any song with a fair number of seeders in under a minute.

The percentage this will affect music piracy: 0.00000001%

Well done lads. I am sure the millions spent on lawyers will be worth it.

My nephew got all his music via limewire. Little sucker kept infecting his dad's computer with NASA-level viruses. Can't say I'm sad to see it go.

It was more than just music sharing. The more you know.

@MstrLance Well that's an interesting concept. Got a couple real good radio interviews the first poke.

Child pornographers the world over weep.

That, as well as those producing snuff films/porn.

Didn't know that people actually used it for video. There wasn't meep for music videos thanks to U2b. Before U2b their was kazaa and Winmx.

'... you just wanted a particular song...in less than a minute from search to done'

Obviously, you've never heard of Grooveshark.

Grooveshark is the meep for finding single songs. It's also 100% legal and pretty meeping reliable. I built an entire music collection based on embeded Grooveshark albums that I've collected. I have around 800 albums on in that collection and I use this site almost every day to listen to music that I love from home, work or when I'm traveling.

Limewire has been a virtual plethora of PC infections for a decade. I could give a meep less that it's gone. The P2P file sharing movement had moved beyond the Napster/Limewire concept years ago, and for good reason.

Personally, with the availability of internet access almost everywhere, I don't see any need to download music. Having access to an online collection that I can stream is much more convenient, mobile and is much easier to share.

meep Limewire.

Grooveshark is the meep for finding single songs.

Agreed, as long as you don't care to save a local copy (to hedge against the possibility of losing access (due to music industry lawsuits, for instance).

^ What MstrBasRelief said.

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Anything you can stream, you can capture and store locally. Stop being dumb about computers and stuff.

Two step process:

  Step One: Play Song

  Step Two: Capture Song (repeat ad nauseum)

vs.

One Step Process:

  Step One: Download Song (or album, or discography etc.)

Capture (audio stream or packet) tends to be a pretty tedious process ...unless you've got a way to capture every song that comes down the pipe automatically. If so: kick down, brotak!

limewire is obsolete, so too little too late

also... meep the music industry

Wheaties: Breakfast of Champions

I'm old. I started out trying to download the internet and then realized I might have to specialize. I still collect only real, non-physical files. Because I'm old.

Sunny's not dead in Australia!

Two step process:

Step One: Play Song

Step Two: Capture Song (repeat ad nauseum)

vs.

One Step Process:

Step One: Download Song (or album, or discography etc.)

Capture (audio stream or packet) tends to be a pretty tedious process ...unless you've got a way to capture every song that comes down the pipe automatically. If so: kick down, brotak!

Why are you obsessed with having all of those one's and zero's stored locally? This thought process doesn't seem logical. Leave it in the cloud and access it from anywhere without having to carry anything but the browser in your pocket.

Do you feel a need to download the entire linkswarm and store it locally before you can enjoy it?

Hey look... another useless comment from the ubiquitous Wotak. This is becoming like the 24x7 cable news cycle.

Most PCs that I have to cleanup have Limewire on them. Some people will click on anything just because its there.

this.is.not.a.virus.mp3.exe naked.woman.mpeg.exe

Ditto on the PC clean ups. I`d say about 85% of machines I work on for side jobs, and school laptops have limewire installed. In 99% of those cases the most glaring hardcore infections are attributed to something downloaded from Limewire. 'Sweet a new album!' (filesize 276kb) Click wait click infected..... 'What Happened?!'

meeping idiots...

Upon returning these computers in a like new state, I usually make recommendations to avoid certain items. Two months later I often have return customers with the same exact meep back on their machines (limewire, sketchy freeware, ad laden clipart BS, etc). These customers are often as clueless to what had happened as the first time around. Ah well I guess they are lining my pockets at least.

Hey look... another useless comment from the ubiquitous Wotak. This is becoming like the 24x7 cable news cycle.

Once again you prove that you are the biggest meep on this site. I'm a pretty peaceful guy but I'm pretty sure I'd pound your meeping face in if given the chance.

I just became interested in this discussion.

Proceed.

I've tried 3 or 4 programs that claim to record anything passing through your sound card and they have all sucked about equally. Terrible audio. Anybody know anything that will record streaming audio worth a meep?

Capture (audio stream or packet) tends to be a pretty tedious process ...unless you've got a way to capture every song that comes down the pipe automatically. If so: kick down, brotak!

Pandora Saver works pretty good, works with other sites (grooveshark, last.fm and slacker I think' and free.

Why are you obsessed with having all of those one's and zero's stored locally? This thought process doesn't seem logical.

Uhh, maybe they have an ipod, or burn CDs, or one of the other many reasons to have songs stored locally? Is that not logical?

iPod does not compute.

iPod does not compute

*Monocle falls out*

I can't wait to see which fork in the road this trainwreck traverses.

There really is no argument to be had here (regarding streaming vs. 'physical' downloading). Although on-demand music/movies/TV/etc. will likely be the future, with us storing little physical data on TVs, phones, computers, media players (which are becoming one anyway), we certainly are not there yet as far as having that option being the most convenient and efficient.

As for personal choice, I never got into the Kazzaa/Limewire meepgorty purely because of the above gripes about malware and virus meepmeepery.

WinMx was great 'till the RIAA meep on them too but apparently it's been 'patched' and may still work. (lolz?)

Anyway, with torrents, you can select which files to download, single meeping files, why you would use anything else is silly. For example if I find a torrent of a Led Zepplin discography but only want 'stairway' then I simply uncheck every other song in the file list and only download the song I want. Novel.

mofo: Pandora saver. Dude.

Liking it. Thanks.

Why are you obsessed with having all of those one's and zero's stored locally?

I save a copy because I can't stream in my car or to my headphones. The car and my headphones are the two places I can enjoy my music.

There really is no argument to be had here

Actually stupid, we are actually actively discussing this. Thats ok tho, I don't imagine you read past the first 4 words of this thread before passing judgement.

Although on-demand music/movies/TV/etc. will likely be the future, with us storing little physical data on TVs, phones, computers, media players (which are becoming one anyway), we certainly are not there yet as far as having that option being the most convenient and efficient.

I use a mobile version of Pandora and Slacker, it's pretty goddam convienient and efficient.

Leave it in the cloud and access it from anywhere without having to carry anything but the browser in your pocket.

Actually yes!

In the streaming vs. saving debate, I'm on both sides of the fence. I listen to mobile pandora, too, but sometimes I want to just listen to one album, or a specific song, and pandora doesn't swing that way. Grooveshark is good for album-listening if you want to take the time to build and host a web site dedicated to the purpose. Not that illeg.it doesn't rock entirely, mind you, I just don't want to expend that kind of effort on my own collection when I can already listen to an album by simply downloading the album. Also, I like having a collection to browse through; otherwise I tend to forget about artists that I like until I happen across them randomly.

And again, there is my initial argument: hedging against a loss of access. This might happen due to websites going down, losing internet connection, RIAA lawsuits, GSM dead zones, societal collapse... come what may, I can still rock out whenever the streaming teat dries up.

I like to hold an mp3 in my cold, inhumane jew hands.

Learned_Elders_of_Zion-01-Protocols.mp3

Wotak,

Next time you are on the dole, let's talk. Nothing like an enraged ex-mil, ex-convict, unemployed meep. FWIW, I' here just to roger you until your head explodes.

Bigdinwaunakee, what are you trying to say exactly?

:gets out his jump-to-conclusions pad for LK to play on:

Big D In Waunakee,

Next time you are bleeding from a femoral artery, let's talk. Nothing like a petty, pathetic, unaccomplished, spoon fed manager of daddy's restaurant to remind a man of how well he's done for himself. FWIW, I'm here to enjoy the day you die of cancer and aids, or (one can pray) get run over by a snow plow.

gentlemen, gentlemen. thou'rt still waving thine meeps in the air over this frippery withal??