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Cabos is Limewire for Minimalists

Posted Jul 8th 2008 12:00PM by Lee Mathews
Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Freeware, P2P

We've tried plenty of Gnutella clients that just aren't any good, and usually end up back with Frostwire or Limewire by default. Thankfully, Cabos has an excellent alternative for Windows and Mac users.

Cabos doesn't support torrents, and it doesn't have a built in media player, but who needs that anyway? Most of us have favorite apps for handling those files anyways, and Limewire probably isn't either of them. It simply searches the Gnutella network, displays your results, lets you filter and sort them six ways from Sunday, and downloads them quickly. It even offers basic iTunes integration.

There's no lime green splashed around the UI, just a tranquil, muted gray, and 21 languages are supported. It's totally ad-free and there are no nags - Cabos just does what you want it to and doesn't get in the way.

LimeWire digital music store launches

Posted Mar 17th 2008 9:00AM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Audio, Internet, P2P

About half a year after announcing plans to open an online music store, LimeWire has followed through on its ~~threat~~ promise to go at least partially legit. The LimeWire store features about half a million tracks from a diverse set of mostly independent or minor label artists that you may or may not have heard of. There are a few big names featured on the front page, like Dolly Parton, Josh Rouse, Bell X1, and Gloria Gaynor. We really never thought we'd be writing a sentence with all four of those artists in it, but there you go. The site is currently in beta and the LimeWire team says it has plans to add "thousands of tracks daily."

All tracks are available as 256kbps MP3 files. Pricing is $.99 for a single track. Or you can get 25 downloads per month for $9.99, 50 for $14.99 or 75 for $19.99. At that last price, you essentially get 75 songs for $.27 each, assuming you actually download 75 tracks each month.

Currently the LimeWire store is completely separate from the LimeWire peer to peer file sharing application. There's no way to use the LimeWire client to speed up downloads, but the company does plan to offer some sort of integration in the future. How they plan to prevent users from buying songs and then sharing them with the world for free remains to be seen.

[via P2P Blog]

Lime Wire to launch digital music store

Posted Aug 14th 2007 4:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Audio, Internet, P2P

Before BitTorrent was all the rage in peer to peer file sharing, you may remember that the easiest way to illegally obtain music, movies, and other files was through file sharing programs like Lime Wire, BearShare, Morpheus. You know, the children of Napster.

Of course, now Napster's gone legit and sells music. It looks like Lime Wire is looking to follow suit. The company has announced plans to open a music download store.

The store will be web-based, although you'll be able to access the site from links in Lime Wire's file-sharing software. So far the company has signed up IRIS Distribution and Nettwerk Productions. Content will be available as MP3s, and customers will be able to buy individual songs and albums or pay a monthly fee for subscription plans.

[via coolfer]

Morpheus p2p network loses in court

Posted Sep 30th 2006 2:52PM by Ryan Carter
Filed under: News, P2P, Social Software

Another one bites the dust folks, well not yet. Morpheus, the p2p file sharing network owned by StreamCast, lost its case in court. The network, like many others is now in danger of being shut down because of copyright infringement charges. LimeWire was similarly sued by the RIAA in August, as well as Grokster, Napster, Kazaa, and many others. Some of these networks have been shut-down, had to shut-down, or have regrouped and come back reborn like Napster. Morpheus still holds out hope for some sort of appeal to work in their favor, but at this point the prospects don't look too good, at least from my small corner of the great and powerful blogosphere. Where Morpheus ends up remains to be seen, and despite their court loss, there seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel at least for consumers, with a few studios and companies starting to see that DRM-less music may be the way to boost sales.

RIAA sues Limewire

Posted Aug 4th 2006 8:00PM by Grant Robertson
Filed under: P2P

Lime Group LLC, the company behind peer to peer application LimeWire, sued today in federal court by the RIAA for damages including $150,000 per occurance of copyright infringing files. The complaint seeks damages on the grounds that LimeWire, and thus Lime Group LLC, facillitated the trade of copywritten music between users and profited as a result of LimeWire's failure to "block" copyright protected material.

Lime Group LLC has so far refused comment.

Lime Group was threatened last September, along with a host of other P2P application developers, with legal action if the company failed to comply with RIAA demands to either shut down, successfully filter all copyright protected material or drop the open peer to peer topology for a licensed content model approved by the RIAA.

KaZaa recently settled a similar case for $115 million, others such as WinMX and Bearshare have shut down. Qtrax, another less known but veteran name in peer to peer is preparing to offer a licensed peer to peer model that would comply with the RIAA's demands.

[Via Digg]

LimeWire Pro - Today's Free File?

Posted Feb 10th 2006 9:59PM by Victor Agreda, Jr.
Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Windows, Macintosh

I put a question at the end of that title because I'm not sure if this is really kosher or not. Let your conscience be your guide. It's pretty obvious that, using p2p, you can get the Pro version of LimeWire (or nearly any other app) for free. But using the GPL to allow for the pro version to download for free anyway? Pretty obvious as well, since the pro version is open source, you could just download the source, compile it, and there ya go. Maybe the folks at LimeWire should have considered the terms of the GPL before charging for their app... Or maybe not. Seems like they have a right to earn a living making the application. Personally I don't like LimeWire, but most of my students use it. So yeah, Webby's World has the details on acquiring LimeWire Pro for free, along with a little jab at Java (which I'd agree with a commenter, is NOT generally buggy). Or you could be brave and go to this freaky site where they claim you can just download the thing for free. Free? Maybe. Guilt free? I'll let you decide.

[Via digg]

2005's file-sharing winners and losers

Posted Dec 26th 2005 4:00PM by Jordan Running
Filed under: Internet

Slyck News has put together a list of their picks for the biggest winners and losers in file-sharing for 2005. File sharing's winners? BitTorrent, Apple, LimeWire, The Pirate Bay, and open source. The losers? Sony-BMG, Kazaa owners Sharman Networks, Grokster, pay P2P, and, of course, perennial loser the RIAA. I'd personally add to the winners list Fiona Apple, whose new album, which is being acclaimed as one of the year's best, would never have seen a release this year without the attention its P2P leak garnered.

#	Blogger	Posts	Cmts
1	Brad Linder	103	9
2	Joey Celis	69	1
3	Jay Hathaway	50	14
4	Lee Mathews	25	31
5	Drew Olanoff	16	12
6	Kristin Shoemaker	13	8
7	Christina Warren	13	4
8	Nancy Messieh	10	0
9	Danny Mendez	6	1
10	Adam Maras	4	1
11	Emily Price	4	0
12	Ian Dumych	3	1
13	Nik Fletcher	3	0
14	Dolores Parker	3	2
15	Jason Clarke	2	0
16	Christina Clark	2	1
17	Alan Silcott	2	7
18	Gordon Finlayson	2	0
19	Todd Ritter	2	0
20	Patrick Beeson	1	3

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Cabos is Limewire for Minimalists

LimeWire digital music store launches

Lime Wire to launch digital music store

Morpheus p2p network loses in court

RIAA sues Limewire

LimeWire Pro - Today's Free File?

2005's file-sharing winners and losers

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