Redditor jokes LimeWire is now a “champion against the darkness.”

  • Katherine 🪴@piefed.social
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    3 hours ago

    The early 2000s music sharing software company LimeWire — now resurrected as a crypto company by new owners — won rights to the infamous Fyre Festival in an auction that was held on eBay, reportedly beating out Ryan Reynolds’ company for the rights.

    Just get it on archive.org; it’s probably a lot safer.

  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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    Gnutella network is definitely still active, athough not even close to the level it once was. It has plenty of drawbacks but one of the few advantages over torrents is that it doesn’t need trackers. Just enough clients online to connect with one another.

    You can even still find Shareaza with a quick search.

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    3 hours ago

    The corporate entity that now owns lime wire, didnt they also previousLy do a bunch of NFT nonsense?

    What a joke

    Article also uses the term “limewire torrent”… 🤦‍♂️

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    4 hours ago

    The use of Limewire in this context seems to be more of an interesting news novelty.

    That being said, in any democratic leaning country that truly values freedom (in the real sense, not the polemical American sense), the distribution of such media would not be an issue and you wouldn’t have to resort to Limewire, a torrent would suffice or even another broadcast TV network would air with violation of copyright.