Using Limewire to pirate Limewire Pro

And when you downloaded "Yoursong.mp3.exe" you knew you were about to have the best day ever!

(To this day it amazes me how so many people don't pay attention to file types and keeps them hidden.)

We all on here pretending Napster wasn't the OG? The transition to kazaa was painful.

Among many other misattributed MP3s I downloaded off LimeWire, I remember downloading an mp3 of a "new leaked Nine Inch Nails song" called "Digital" that even had an intro read by a some DJ on a radio station (supposedly).

It ended up not being Nine Inch Nails, but I loved the song anyway, and had no idea what it was until a decade later when I found it again online. Still fuckin rocks too:

Boom Boom Satellites - Push Eject

I also remember a Tetris Theme remix by Aphex Twin that was very much not Aphex Twin.

I also remember downloading the Aphex Twin remix of Beck's "Devil's Haircut"and the remix was so bad I thought it had to be fake (it's not).

And sometimes things you really really didn't want.

Fake system of a down - link song was golden.

lots of free viruses too.

My PC got AIDS once from Limewire Lite, true story.

EDIT : it was Kazaa had a lite version, not Limewire. Good days lol.

Came here to mention soulseek

It was FREE.

But at what cost?

I feel like I have more availability to get what I want now, than when I was using Limewire/Kazaa/Napster/eMule/etc.

If it was super popular, you could get it. If it was obscure, uncommon, niche, and other synonyms, if you did find it 90% of the time it was simply given an incorrect name and wasn't actually what you wanted.

I used to have a demonoid account and kept my seed ratio high just because that private tracker had the biggest collection of random ass music and movies you couldn't find anywhere else. Unreleased shit and whatnot.

Limewire was the rotten version of Kazaa, Kazaa lite and Bearshare. Loads of viruses and mallware. By the time Limewire was there, torrents were already so much better, but usenet has always been, and still are far superior. I pay €9,50 for usenet and download anything I want. No more streaming services, just fully automated movie and series downloads with Radarr and Sonarr. It runs on my NAS, so every morning I have new episodes downloaded, repaired, extracted, renamed and placed in the right series folders. I have more rights, better quality, no ads, better service, subtitles, log of what I watched with Kodi, I can stream what I want to watch from my NAS from all around the world.

Hey does anyone remember searching for the movie XXX with Vin Diesel? What a fun time...

Define free? Constant viruses, trauma from seeing killings and executions. Was it worth it? Sure but it wasn’t free

Frostwire is still available and it actually works better than Limewire ever did.

Still can brother 🏴‍☠️

"Turbo-Charged Connection"

252kbit/s

Even if somehow a quarter of the songs you downloaded started with “My fellow Americans…”

SongYouWanted.mp3.txt.rar.zip.lnk.exe

Quality: 5 stars but it's a 128mb MP3

Misattribution killed Limewire. Downloading a song that turned out to be something different was annoying, but downloaded porn sometimes turned out to be actual CP.

Funny how, despite corporate trying it's hardest to kill it, we've only managed to get better, more organized and safer with file sharing (and perhaps because of them, in many ways).

Weird Al Yankovic - Oops I'm Pregnant Again (REAL).mp3

I once downloaded a 650MB movie in less than 10 minutes. I dont know how that was possible at the time as I had a sub 1 mbit line. I just know I went to the bathroom and came back to a downloaded movie. Always figured it was a bug of some kind on the modem as apparently the cable modem was doing the rate limiting.

Meh mule/donkey network ftw back then!

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