Limewire is one of the most used Bittorrent clients.
Posted on: October 07, 2009Lime wire is one of the most popular BitTorrent clients used to share large files across the peer to peer network especially media files like audio and video files. This application is written in Java programming language and runs on any computer that has Java Virtual Machine installed. Hence, it is platform independent and runs on Windows, MAC, Linux or any other OS that supports JVM.
Lime wire was launched in the year 2000. It has gained popularity among the P2P users mainly because of simple user interface and ease of use. In addition, it uses Gnutella network to locate and share files. There are two versions available- one is free and other paid version. The paid version has some enhanced features and no adware.
One of the attractive features of Lime wire is the protocol encryption using TLS. TLS (Transport Layer Security) refers to a cryptographic protocols that encrypts the connection and provides security for communications across the network. This facility obfuscates the connection so that the ISPs cannot monitor their clients visiting the Gnutella network (famous for illegal file sharing that includes copyrighted materials).The disadvantage is that even though it is very effective, it puts lot of load on the CPU and hence disabled by many users.
Lime wire sets ups packet forwarding rules with the UPnP routers and acts as UPnP Internet Gateway Device. UPnP refers to universal Plug and Play protocol that provides a simple way to connect devices and implement network easily at homes and office environments. An instant messenger is embedded into the software that allows the users to communicate with others. In addition, users can share files only with their biddies and not with everyone.
The majority of users who use lime wire are those who are interested in multimedia files like music and videos. An online store has been started which offers a single song for $0.99 and subscribers get songs at $0.27 per song. The service is limited to only certain countries.
Lime wire is not just P2P software but much more than it. It has FTP and HTTP support, Chat facility and a media player to play files even that are partially downloaded. Due to extreme pressure from RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), the company incorporated frost wire code that blocks files that are copyrighted and illegal to share. It has most of the features present in other P2P applications.
You can download the application from here.
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