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    LimeWire

    Discontinued iconic peer-to-peer file sharing application that featured built-in spam blocking.

    • Free • Proprietary
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    What is LimeWire?

    LimeWire is the a P2P file-sharing application for all types of computer files, including music, video, pictures, games, and text documents. Other features include dynamic querying, file previews during download, advanced techniques for locating rare files, and an easy, clean user interface.

    LimeWire's spam blocker gets rid of junk results, and automatic updates will keep you sharing faster than ever with the latest version. You can search for Creative Commons and Weedshare licensed files, and publish your own creative works with Creative Commons licensing.
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    Discontinued

    LimeWire has been discontinued on October 26, 2010, as a result of a court-ordered injunction for its parent company to stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing software.

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    • Top positive comment  about 7 years ago • 0 replies
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    when i was growing up i use limewire all i loved it back in the day i have to say sometime i really miss it :)

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    Joseph864
    Comment • over 8 years ago • 0 replies
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    i use to use this app sometime back and it never had any issues but now there are better torrents that do a much better job

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    Aaron
    Comment • over 12 years ago • 0 replies
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    This has been a popular P2P program, but it has been known to have spyware and viruses, so I never used it. I used eMule or aMule instead and they worked just as good for me.

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    Summary

    Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about LimeWire, and it has gotten 29 likes

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    LimeWire was added to AlternativeTo by zteff on Mar 18, 2009 and this page was last updated Dec 17, 2019.

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