Talk:LimeWire/Archive 2

message: To lazy now to check if the alledged august 8 BBC report sentence was inserted by a "RIAA toadies IP adress", but if you visit the BBC site it clearly says "Last Updated: Friday, 12 May 2006, 12:53 GMT 13:53 UK" so it's definetly NOT reported one day after the RIAA sued Limewire! I did not want to delete or correct it. May an Admin do it.
(sorry forgot to sign) Pictureupdater 00:04, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The legal section 

message: Someone should post hash values of limewire free and limewire pro that were downloaded from limewire's site along with version number, so this way people can verify things
: I've removed this again. Wikipedia is not Download.com. Chris Cunningham 08:53, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hash Values 

message: What are the differences among Limewire Pro, Limewire 5.5, Limewire 7.0, Limewire 2006 and Limewire 2007? -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.254.114.84 (talk • contribs) 
:Limewire Pro comes without ads and has more speed with downloads.  Limewires 5.5, 7.0, Limewire Plus etc. are just improved versions of the basic software. Bearly451 talk 05:47, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Any "LimeWire" software that is downloaded from a site other than limewire.com is a scam.  LimeWire PRO is at version 4.13 right now.  This is the only official version. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.254.98.153 (talk) 20:00, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Different Versions of Limewire. 

message: "On May 12, 2006, the BBC reported that "Limewire" and "Lime wire" were respectively the fifth and seventh most likely search terms to return links to malware from an Internet search engine.[6]"
This quote from the Wikipedia article on Limewire is ambiguous.  The full article from the BBC gives more detail on the issue of malware associated with Limewire:
"The riskiest search terms were associated with downloads (such as "screensavers" and "free ringtones") and file-sharing (such as "Bearshare" and "limewire"). Searching under these categories returned a substantial proportion of dangerous sites."
In other words, it is not that the Limewire website or the software itself exposes users to malware.  It is that top search results which contain the terms "Limewire" and "Lime wire" contain malware.  Limewire itself has no direct influence on these sites.
The article should be updated to clarify this point.
Thegrip229 20:05, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Should be sourced where the software is illegal in UK and US.  Bearly451 talk 05:46, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malware and Limewire 

message: 4.13.0 is a beta and not officially released. I think we should change it back to 4.12.6: The Man Himself 13:53, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beta 

message: I removed the section about the Denver attorney general's warning about identity theft because it isn't notable, nor does it apply to LimeWire anymore than any other filesharing program.  Oasisbob 00:57, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Huh? 22 kB can be anything. It's usually not the kind of stuff people are looking for but that's a completely different issue. This "P2P is dangerous" blather is utter propaganda bullshit. The web and email are just as dangerous or even worse because people have a false sense of trustworthy sites/senders. Nobody claims there aren't viruses to be downloaded on P2P networks but that's completely irrelevant in any context whatsoever that anyone could ever think of. --82.141.48.127 19:52, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Denver AG & Identity theft 

message: The screenshot shown on the article is using the black skin of Windows XP. I think it is better to use one using the ORDINARY skin of XP, given that most of us use that anyway. Insanephantom 14:03, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  LimeWire Pro Screenshot