Program information
- Softonic rating:
- License:
- Free
- Added:
- July 18, 2007
- Updated:
- July 20, 2010
- Publisher:
- Limewire | More programs (3)
- File size:
- 23.1 MB
- Downloads:
- 4,923,228
“The world's fastest P2P file-sharing application, updated”
Limewire is a very popular peer to peer filesharing application. Users of the latest release will notice the radical redesign, bringing it aesthetically up to date.
Like Vuze before it, LimeWire appears to be encouraging legal downloads with the LimeWire Store. The library is so far a little limited compared to competitor download stores, but we expect this will expand.
Otherwise it's business as usual on LimeWire, but with a much simplified and cleaner interface. Because it's a new release, there are still some bugs, but the basic file sharing functions as well as ever. The new design makes scanning your search results much easier, and downloading files is totally intuitive.
The built-in player is still unintrusive and useful for checking audio and video files, but no more. LimeWire goes out of its way to check you are aware of the legal implications of illegal filesharing, on installation you have to agree no to infringe copyright, and if you download a file for which LimeWire can't find a license you will be warned and can stop or continue at your discretion.
The Friends function has been much improved. You can sign in with your Gmail, Jabber or LiveJournal accounts, and share files between any of your friends there who are also on LimeWire. This is much easier than tapping out IP addresses, and if enough of your friends use LimeWire, it could become great community sharing tool.
LimeWire searches remain within the P2P network, but you can open torrent files with it, and it functions very well as a torrent download client. This is not the most advertised feature of LimeWire, which may a way of keeping legal challenges at bay, but it's a shame that you can't search for torrents within the program.
The official release of LimeWire 5.0 makes for a much improved P2P experience.
Languages:
English
Recent changes in LimeWire:
- Fix bugs when downloading files from the LimeWire Store.
OS requirements for LimeWire:
- OS: Win95/98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP/2003/Vista/7
Pros
- Clean, attractive new design
- Easy to manage sharing
- Connect with friends easily
- LimeWire Store
- Fast search and downloads
- Support for torrents
Cons
- A few bugs
- Go-Pro pop up at start up
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about LimeWire - 23 Aug 2008If you use limewire, make sure you have very good security. when i used it, viruses where on almost every thing i tried to download, and some of them worked through my avast, and stopped avast doin... read more
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