Talk:LimeWire/Archive 1

message: - "LimeWire is a free and open source, released under the GNU general public license"
:free software Gronky 00:07, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free Software? 

message: The hysteria surrounding this article seems to have died down.  Tannin has posted his request to settle this on the Administrators' noticeboard and was responded to negatively (in the sense that it is a content dispute and other editors correctly noted it no longers contains bundled software).  With this in mind, I would like to remove the NPOV categorization, since we seem to have resolved the disputes.  There are also a lot of unnecessary links and references.  The "Obfuscated XML" reference, for example, is unnecessary -- there's no mention of XML in the article, even.  The 'SHA1 Break Rumored' and 'Hash Function attack roundup' both link to the same content (on different pages), so I would like to remove one of them.  Also, I think we can get rid of various spyware external links -- this is an article about LimeWire, not about spyware.  If someone wants to learn about that, they can visit the spyware page.  If someone does want to keep a reference to LimeWire's spyware status, I recommend that it not be the 'eTrust Encylopedia entry', since that is ages old and has been completely irrelevent for the past year and the foreseable future.  The 'LimeWire Review' link is also 4 years old, and the program has changed drastically since then, so that one can probably go also.  If there are no objections to this, I'm going to go ahead and make the changes tomorrow morning.  You're all welcome to make the changes also. Kynes 20:22, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There is to be no original research. Can you provide any sources, news stories, etc? Haakon 15:01, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

text: Thanks. Spam is not unheard of on major file sharing networks, and this seems to be just one instance of spam. To avoid it, do not download files that are unrealistically small (for instance, 300KB for a four minute long song is way too small and is always spam or a trojan. I use LimeWire and steer clear of tiny files like that, and I have never encountered what you are talking about. Haakon 10:16, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Resolution  

message: What does the itunes integration on their site mean?
A networked playlist appears in itunes with your limewire music. Thepcnerd 07:25, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  itunes integration 

message: I was just reading the changelog for limewire, and it lists that the bundled software was removed in version 3.9.4, on 4.20.2004, i am going to change the main page to reflect this, can somebody double check this though? thanks. Deltantor 04:56, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Version bundled software was removed 

message: If you have a query about the program itself, go to their website - google for "LimeWire". Do not replace other people's posts with your quesns, either. Killfest2 04:35, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questions about LimeWire 

message: I know that Limewire might/will damage videos that you watch when limewire is running. For example lets say you are watching a music video on lets say winamp, lets just say. Then not only will you see that the video moves slower and the sound moves at normal speed but also that even if limewire is turned off then there might be permanent damage to the video file. But I dont have any refs to add I just know from personal experience. And if you dont believe me then just try it yourself make a dubble of some video files. After that start limewire let it run for maybe 30 min and download stuff, and watch some videos at the same time, do this for a few weeks then compare the copies you made with the untouched files and see for yourself. But again I have no refs and no other proof so I dont know how to add it to the article FishHeadAbcd 15:51, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No it should not. ChuckDizzle 16:45, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why not it is a good warning, Do not play video files when running the program otherwise they might get damage. It is in no way meant as something bad about the program just that people should not play video files when the program is running, otherwise people will learn it the hard way. For example warning do not drink and drive, warning do not play video files when Limewire is running, you migh regret it. FishHeadAbcd 19:32, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia isn't for warnings. It's also not for total nonsense. Chris Cunningham 07:58, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: This should be in the article

message: According to a number of reports posted within the last hour or two, the RIAA and a coalition of record companies have sued LimewireLLC--see (for example) Yahoo News, News One
--JWMcCalvin 21:17, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Limewire Sued

message: Anybody else besides me notice that link purporting to give away limewire PRO?  Not sure if it does or not, (not interested in bricking my system) but the page looks suspicious, doesn't link to the official Limewire site (links to limewire.org instead, a dead link), and contains a complete rip of the Wikipedia article.
Not sure if anyone cares.  70.233.130.184 19:48, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertiser? 

message: I know that Limewire itself is free software, but does anyone know if it depends on non-free software?  
It depends on a JVM, but there are free Java implementations, such as Kaffe and GCJ, and there are non-free Java implementations, such as Sun's.
Can the free software JVMs be used to run Limewire?  I would like to mention this in the article. Gronky 00:15, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does it run on [[free software]]?