The New York District Court has ordered LimeWire to shutdown immediately by disabling functionality in the software client that allows users to share copyrighted materials in the P2P client. Users who visit LimeWire’s website are greeted with a legal notice detailing that “LimeWire is under a court-ordered injunction to stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing [...]

Categories: P2p

Every now and then a new program to accelerate the download and upload speed on P2P networks pops up. Up until now I made the decision to simply ignore those tools, knowing that they do not speed up or accelerate the connection by a lot, if at all. But since this is a slow day [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

LimeWire is a popular P2P client which uses the Gnutella network. Unfortunately, it limits the amount of ultrapeers to whom connections can be made, in effect reducing the amount of search results and the number of people from whom downloads can be made. LimeWire only removes these limitations if its Pro version is bought at [...]

Categories: Open Source, P2p, Software