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LimeWire
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LimeWire

LimeWire is your Al-powered content publishing platform. Create, publish and monetize images, videos & music with the power of Al.

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LimeWire Al Studio is a free Al Image Generator that allows …

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Al Studio

LimeWire Al Studio is a free Al Art generator that turns your words …

Introducing the New LimeWire

Meet the new LimeWire: The first truly mainstream NFT platform …

Went to see if limewire was still a thing and got shot 4 times with a gun

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    Like watching an old friend’s corpse being defiled for profit

      • corus_kt
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        Limewire and Napster peaked in high school

          • theangryseal
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            Oh come on. That guy would be friends with anyone! He was probably friends with like 600 Adolf Hitlers.

            He was friends with Steve from high school and no one wanted to be Steve’s friend. He only posted pictures of the columbine shooters with captions like, “An hero, an marter. I will join u soon brave man.” His profile played like 10 Marilyn Manson songs at the same time. Guess who his friend was?

            Tom.

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      I see you found my Onlyfans…

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    TIL the gnutella network still exists. Brb, gonna download masterofpuppets.mp3.exe

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      Bandwidth.

      Up-tempo.

      Logistics.

      Leverage.

      Synergy.

      Hold the line.

      Ideate.

      Takeaway.

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    I loved downloading a song from Limewire and the band was labeled completely wrong. Then 10 years later I get made fun of for saying X band made Y song because I legit thought they made it because of Limewire.

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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      I love listening to Twisted Sister’s Come on Feel The Noise or Bob Marley’s Don’t Worry Be Happy.

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      When I listen to Friends will be Friends from Queen, in the back of my mind I’m still certain that’s from Good Charlotte.

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      it’s the way we used to get our music for free back then

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      Torrenting software. And a darn good one too

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        P2P, not torrent. Torrent is P2P but not all P2P is torrenting.

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        It was simply peer to peer file sharing rather than torrenting. Torrenting allows you to collect different parts of the file from different people. Lime Wire just depending on a stable connection between you and the host machine.

        It was also full of fake shit and viruses. I remember spending hours getting rid of “Gator” a couple of times as a stupid college student.

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          I swear I remember limewire having the equivalent of seeds and files being downloaded from multiple places at the same time.

          Mandela effect?

          • Obi@sopuli.xyz
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            Yeah I’m with you, hell I even remember being on WinMX before that and even that having multiple seeds?

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        Limewire was around before Brahm Cohen created Bit Torrent.

      • RealFknNito
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        Yeah it was so good that every download was a gamble if you were getting the song you wanted or uncensored war footage and cp

      • Dehydrated
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        LimeWire was a great way to get music for free back in the days. The Firehawk52 guide is a modern way of getting music for free.

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          One of those services is still alive and kicking and perhaps even better than it was during the p2p audio hayday and I’m seeking within my soul for the bravery to tell others what it is.

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            I haven’t had much luck with Soulseek, I prefer downloading from Deezer or Qobuz with the method described in the Firehawk52 guide. And they even let you download FLACs.

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              I get plenty of FLAC from there. I have issues downloading anything older than a year or two on torrent sites. But YMMV, and I think it depends somewhat on what type of music you listen to.

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        Quality sucks. Deezer or Qobuz let you download lossless FLACs.

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    I too entered the twilight zone when I noticed something in my discord servers. I’m not in many servers, but I had subscribed in an AI image creation server called BlueWillow. So one day the icon was different, resembling a lime… It took me a while to understand what’s happening.

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        Idk man if I saw the exact same pixels from an “AI Art” in 2010s, I would frame some of them.

        The only thing that makes them feel less artsy is knowing there’s no intent of meaning behind the image.

        But that’s also true for some human made art, sometimes the artist’s intention is to make the image have meaning only through the viewers.

        I’m pretty sure I would have an AI Art printed and framed in my home when they become not so somehow obviously “AI”.