limewire – TruXter Tech

Limewire has been ordered to shut down by a federal court.U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood.
Recording Industry Association of America – RIAA Headed the law suite.
Mark Gorton the Founder of Limewire has been pointed as the one person liable and accountable.

I have tested out limewire numerous times, and I have gotten many many of a virus using limewire

I could care less for limewire it’s self. but what it is needs to be protected from the vultures and the non tech savvy judges who listen to the lies they make up as they go. What this means is, the internet would still be on 56k if it was not for people who download free software and media. just as computers would not be where they are if it was not for computer video games, console gaming machines would not be where they are if it was not for the steady upgrades that gaming pc computers had to go through. Itunes would have never existed if it was not for limewire,kazaa and the like. if somehow Itunes existed on some magical conception, it wouldn’t have any competition and that of course reduces innovation and creativity. Itunes would be uploading one song per user per day and it would be the lowest bit rate possible. If it was not for people who used Limewire, got what they wanted as fast as they wanted yet with a few land mine virus files, Itunes would be all we have. There would be no choice, no selection, so we would be happy with what we get.
Many things were created because of the illegal methods of media transfer.
On that note
Let’s look at how much Itunes charges for one song
and then look at the cost of one cd that has 12-18 songs on it with hard case cover lyrics and the pleasure of a physical possession.
Compare the cost.
Now go ahead and research how much a musician makes per cd sale.
Now imagine that everyone who makes money for the cd manufacturing and all plastic parts involved Imagine if you could remove the all of that expense. Ask yourself… who is actually ripping off the musicians.If Itunes lowered their price for the transfer of music, the pirate sites would be useless. The people making a huge profit off of the musician’s work, or the guy who is freely getting something he wouldn’t have bought anyway, and his reception of said item did not take said item out of another person’s possession?
Like there is a stadium 6 blocks from where I live. They have fireworks that people pay to park on their lot and see. They have bands that people pay to park on their lot and listen. I walk outside and lay on my roof, watch and listen. I did not break into someone’s stadium and obtain these items freely. They are just in the air. Who has the right to say what is allowed on the internet?

Farewell limewire, one person here knows what you have done. One person has done more than act like a candy inflicted child with a new toy. I stopped, I analyzed and looked at cause and effect. No one will notice what happens because they have nothing to compare it to. You will be missed.

I was having a discussion of what pirating was in a forum that I typically converse in. I was having an issue with games for windows live not accepting my install cd key, the thread was created to inform the other users of said site of what betrayal i was facing from something i trusted to invest $60 into. Here is more on games for windows live having a limited install.
I said “no one pirates itunes garbage”. This person from the site gave a response that stunned me. I didn’t expect it , I didn’t believe it till the second time he stated it more clearly. He actually said “iTunes itself is free, some Apps are free, but with a jailbroken device you can find most any app you…..” it goes on a bit after that, but really. I can handle only so much. So I realized I was actually holding a conversation with someone who is brand new to the topic. This person did not see the heyday, this person got interested in computers and the internet, within the last three years. This person was born after 1994.
So I decided to make it clear for others who did not get to be a part of the boom. I give you internet history on it’s dirty side. The side that will not be in future history books.

I give you the response I gave him

You just now told me what age group you are in.
Sorry didn’t know how new you are.
Itunes the name means “music” (tunes is clue #1)
I tunes has been selling music for +5 years now.
The apps thing is quite new
Roughly 3 years

Back in the day, music was the number one controversial pirated item on the internet.
There used to be some major hitters in the pirating world.
Napster
Limewire
winmx
Kazzaa
Almost all are gone now.
Some have resurfaced as something else.
Truly if it was not for them, the public never would have demanded greater speeds for their internet connections and we would not have the internet the way it is now. 2.0 would not have been an option. php would not have been an option, flash well it would have demised…. well in a flash.
1994-1998 Music pirating was so common that radio station djs would make their playlist at home and bring to the station these crappy assed 32-64bit overly compressed 200k songs and play them on the radio. some of us would bitch how it sounded like the music was being played in a sewer drain.
Around 2000- 2002 Itunes was announced. No one moved for the first year. because it was free. but apple played a bunch of clever commercials. by 2004 all pirating had come to a skid. there was a huge standstill, because Kazaa was seized and millions of i.p. addresses were placed public as targets of interest by the riaa..

You know what… I have gone to far with this. i think I have a cool post for the tech blog… later dude.

Some of the time-line might be a tiny bit tilted, but it’s can’t be by much.

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Good Bye Limewire