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- seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -7/+117Oh nooo im so scared. Bittorrent is better anyways.
- mtvkilledusall, on 10/12/2007, -7/+65"you can rarely download a mp3 by itself on bittorrent."
You obviously don't know how to use bittorrent properly if you believe this is the case. - AmishRefugee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+61would you really feel comfortable downloading Photshop or Photoshp off of limewire? the stuff there is already sketchy enough
- omglazers, on 10/12/2007, -3/+57People still use Limewire...?
- Area51mafia, on 10/12/2007, -3/+50http://www.frostwire.com/
Limewire code fork without all the filtering and license crap in Limewire. - Diggtatorship, on 10/12/2007, -5/+41Shame on you for quitting!
- exobyte, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37Thanks to BT, I forgot about limewire.
- calbff, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34Does anyone actually READ these articles? This means absolutely nothing at all - read the following excerpt. Nobody actually checks that box off anyways, so this is completely a PR move...and a stupid one.
"As usual, the Adobe products will only be filtered out if the user has chosen to block copyrighted material during installation by checking the ‘Enable Content Filtering’ option."
Marked as inaccurate. - OmegaNine, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31They dont have their own network, all they can do is block it at the client.
But I agree, i would use BT for something that large. As far as single MP3's, good luck, its faster to DL the whole CD off BT than to find one real MP3 from the CD on limewire. - pjack91, on 10/12/2007, -7/+32Jeez, learn how to use bittorrent.
- Diggtatorship, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27"I wouldn't feel comfortable using LimeWire period so I don't have to worry about that."
You can say that again. Right now they're selling out to Adobe, next thing you know they'll be selling out to lawyers and governments. - npsken, on 10/12/2007, -8/+23Some people just feel comfortable having the legit version of software. I am one of those people.
- BlackAdderIII, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17"you steal it from them"
No, they do not steal anything. Receiving broadcasts that infringe copyright is not theft.
If your radio station messes up their royalties and doesn't pay the artist, or if you borrow a CD for a wedding, are you a Thief? Are you a dishonest or bad person? Have you taken something from someone with the intent of permanently depriving them of it?
No, of course you're not and you haven't.
If you hum a published tune in the presence of 100 people without permission, are you a thief? Of course not, but the copyright stipulations would be quite clear in that you are required to pay money for this.
As it happens, you're not the one with the issue anyway - the person who decided to distribute material without any regard for the legal copyright holder is the bugger.
Copyright infringement is just objectively not theft, it has never been theft, it is. not. theft.
Understand? You may consider it terribly wrong if you like of course, and people probably don't have a right to just enjoy someone else's hard work without paying them for it, but ultimately copyright infringement is copyright infringement. Not theft.
Sorry, I'm an old fashioned dinosaur - I actually consider "stealing" to be a serious accusation, and don't see why it should be thrown around unfairly. - teknotant, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Last time I checked, one of the torrents for cs2 had over 3000 seeders.
- konig12, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Thank you! Finally, after reading 95% of these comments there is one that is actually reasonable. This attempt to block the illegal downloading will only work on people who actually don't want to illegally download programs or songs. No one on limewire really accepts the filtering.
- devoinregress, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15I used illegal coppies as training wheels. Now that I am fluent in the suite and use it all the time I buy student coppies.
Adobe, please don't make it to hard to pirate your stuff. Thats how most of us learn your products and eventualy buy them. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18Frostwire ftw!
- zeldafan, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13With uTorrent you can select which files you want to download off of any torrent. Great for music and seasons of tv where you only want a specfic episode or you want to watch sooner. Just look around a bit in the program.
- evilempire, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I would say it does make him smarter. Limewire is a cesspool right now.... Bittorrent is much more reliable and has fewer fake files.
- milamberdob, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11weak Limewire, weak!
- DrGonzo1184, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Who uses limewire to download stuff like photoshop anyway? This is what people get for using limewire.
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12"A fool and his money are soon parted."
- Justin6512, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10pfff who does that anymore. It's much easier to go to Adobe's website, download the trial version of their software off their site, and use a keygen to unlock it to the full version.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9@mightymouse: "how do u do it?"
First off, get rid of the ***** bitcomet/bitlord/sharezaa client and download either azureus or utorrent. It gives you the option to download files individually (assuming of course, you're not at a lame torrent site that zips or rar's the albums). - ZeonZumDeikun, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8It's not that we want to steal from artists, it's that their publishers are not even giving you the rights to what you actually buy. They go as far as saying that you do not actually own the file, but the license to use it for a year or so.
So I steal it with BitTorrent. - iFrank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@woody56292: "artists will not keep making their music if you don't support them."
Are you an idiot? No bona fide musician (of which there are many, despite the fact that there's a superficial layer of MTV wannabe-musician-whores clouding everyone's perspective on the industry) would ever stop playing music no matter how much money he or she was or wasn't making.
Don't let the record companies fool you. There will always be people who have that special drive inside them to make music. If you don't do it, you cant understand. You obviously don't. Never make a comment like that again. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Just so you guys know, files that you export using Adobe software (not sure about Macromedia files) have metadata inside the file that lets Adobe know if your copy of the sotware is legit or not. In case you're planning to use cracked Adobe software for commercial purposes, you can get into serious trouble. I've seen it happen before at my school.
- kLacK, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7"Usenet > Bittorrent"
I guess not many people know about usenet... lets keep it that way! - Grayfox777, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5moture, you probably work for the RIAA or one of their affiliates.
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5woody56292 you should use torrents to get naruto episodes, they are in higher quality, download faster, are easier to find and you can get torrents containing a lot of episodes at once :O
- allyant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5People use the Gnutella network for downloading exe's? wow..........
- djdarco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Limewire is crap, so why would they even care about Adobe? /sigh
Totally a PR move, and i agree with calbff - xxNIRVANAxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@DigDugDigger: Frostwire? http://www.frostwire.com/
- kingfoot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6you just have to look at the filesize..if it seems legit, dl it, and virus scan it.
- qwertydvorak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@woody: ya, i know what you mean... i feel sorry for all of those people in the thousands of years leading up to modern civilization and copyrights who never were able to hear music because nobody made any because it couldn't be protected. not only that, but think of all the art that was never produced before our modern copyright system. you know, all the art from cave paintings all the way up to Michelangelo who didn't have the benefit of copyright. the real artists always created art for art's sake.
- crazaalex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Talk about sketchy some of the downloads are over 300mb. We all know the 8.3 kb ones are real.
/sarcasm. - xxNIRVANAxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Diggimator: Already done... with Frostwire. I can't believe not many people know about it. It rapes LimeWire. Cabos is cool too!
- ionblue, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3bittorrent and soulseek are all i need
- DigDugDigger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Since Limewire is open-source, I'd expect some 3rd party builds with this type of thing removed from it. That is, if anyone actually still uses Limewire.
- thehouse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32SCpohsotohPebodA.rar
- codyman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3ever since frostwire came out, to me its limewire who?
- diggimator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I just assumed LimeWire would block files based on SHA-1 hashes.
Don't LimeWire give users the option of whether to block copyrighted content anyway?
If they start to suck really bad, just fork it. It's open source. - toodamfast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1thumbs up. How popular would photoshop be if EVERYONE had to pay $500 per copy? The flood gates to open source are starting to open and things like this are pushing it.
- DigDugDigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I guess, I don't keep up with gnutella anymore as Bittorrent is much better for what I need it for.
- PRlME, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1look at you get digged down for telling it the way it is
- MBHoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"moture, you probably work for the RIAA or one of their affiliates."
LOL ^^
But, no. :) - sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Who still uses crap like Limewire? Limewire is the new Kazaa. Stick with Bittorrent and Soulseek, and your all good.
- skoobisnaxs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"The reason I named those clients is two-fold.
1.) usually it's the inexperienced users or the people new to bittorrent who use them.
2.) bitlord, bitcomet, and all the other bit-clones don't play by the rules when it comes to sharing. they don't follow the bittorrent protocol and using them can get you BANNED at a lot of trackers. they constantly disconnect and re-connect to peers and seeds to get a faster connection, thus slowing everyone else at the same time. they also do other ***** but i don't feel like explaining it to you ATM. go here to learn more for yourself: http://www.google.com
Suffice to say that these clients should not be used by anyone. I'm one of the people that bans those clients from connecting to me when I seed a file. Users new to bittorent should be aware of this. Thanks for indirectly calling me an *****, when it was you who was uninformed. Very mature."
I am informed, I never said bitcomet was good, or even tolerable. The problem was that you said in your first post that it didn't download individual files, and I corrected you. Oh, BTW I did want to apologize for indirectly calling you an *****. I guess I meant it more directly. - waterdrop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Look at the charts on any torrent site and you'll see that Photoshop CS2 and Illustrator CS2 are some of the most pirated programs.
- emileb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0limewire is not dead yet. i still keep it around for when i need to download an old Lionel Richie song that's gotten stuck in my head, and it gets decent results. i agree bittorrent/azureus is much better for videos and entire cds.
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