Redditor jokes LimeWire is now a “champion against the darkness.”
Just taking this opportunity to remind everyone that the Limewire you knew is no longer. From Wikipedia:
Name reuse by unrelated companies
In 2022, Austrian brothers Julian and Paul Zehetmayr bought LimeWire’s intellectual property and turned it into an NFT service.
LimeWire’s name was revived in 2022 for an unrelated music-based NFT platform, an action with which Gorton expressed displeasure.Please don’t use no crypto bro NFT infused trash. Go watch the segment from Archive.org.
Seed the torrent if you wanna spread the word.It’s infinitely safer than this sketchy ass company.
I mean… Its on YouTube already 💁♂️ Idk why people act like the internet doesnt exist. Bari Weiss is stupid. If she actually wanted to people not to see this, she should have just let it air, it would have had far less viewes then it will now.
Seriously, I popped in just to say this. How fucking hard is it for people to understand the Streisand effect?
Weiss def didn’t make that decision, she’s just the face following marching orders from above. She sucks, but let’s not pretend like she has any real power
Using limewire was historically like having unprotected sex with the internet
I love how the censored segment was ‘accidentally’ published in Canada.
Feigned incompetence and malicious compliance is a great way to resist fascists and collaborators.
The early 2000s music sharing software company LimeWire — now resurrected as a crypto company by new owners — won rights to the infamous Fyre Festival in an auction that was held on eBay, reportedly beating out Ryan Reynolds’ company for the rights.
Just get it on archive.org; it’s probably a lot safer.
Direct link for the lazy like me: https://archive.org/details/videoplayback_20251223_1653
I did see this headline yesterday and then downloaded the 60 minutes segment using Nicotine+ which is a Soulseek client. I did look at an alternative to Limewire for linux called “Frostwire” but apparently it’s now just a bittorrent client, where it used to support Gnutella in the past. And finally I did find that the internet archive of course had a torrent available which I also got for good measure.
EDIT: It was possible to get something with gtk-gnutella, but it was nowhere near as fast, nor did I get more than just one result. It may be more resiliant, but if nobody is using it..
Lol we just had it circulating as is. The video was all over the fedi.
Gnutella network is definitely still active, athough not even close to the level it once was. It has plenty of drawbacks but one of the few advantages over torrents is that it doesn’t need trackers. Just enough clients online to connect with one another.
You can even still find Shareaza with a quick search.
Torrents don’t need trackers either. They can work with just DHT.
Yeah, but unless you know the hash of a file, you can’t look it up. The gnutella network can find files by name.
Feel like I’ve been doing this too long to run P2P clients on my desktop. Any good projects to let you self-host something to interact with the gnutella network on an external server? Something with a nice webui?
Something like Qbittorrent-Nox or rTorrent/ruTorrent for Gnutella would be great.
Not that I know of. The shift to Bittorrent after Limewire’s demise pretty much killed new Gnutella client development. There are a few desktop clients still under “active maintenance” but most of them haven’t been updated in ages.
The corporate entity that now owns lime wire, didnt they also previousLy do a bunch of NFT nonsense?
What a joke
Article also uses the term “limewire torrent”… 🤦♂️
Quaint. Its like they haven’t heard of Archive
Or BitTorrent
The use of Limewire in this context seems to be more of an interesting news novelty.
That being said, in any democratic leaning country that truly values freedom (in the real sense, not the polemical American sense), the distribution of such media would not be an issue and you wouldn’t have to resort to Limewire, a torrent would suffice or even another broadcast TV network would air with violation of copyright.
