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Limewire Gets Ads, And Accusations of Spyware

Posted by timothy on from the who-sends-what-to-whom-and-how dept.

Gerard J. Pinzone writes: "Limewire 1.8 now comes with mandatory banner ads. The reasons given by one of their developers, Christopher Rohrs, for the new ads are that 'Bandwidth alone from www.limewire.com, www.limewire.org, and router.limewire.com is around $10,000 month! And we need to pay developer's salaries--like mine--to keep driving innovation on the Gnutella network.' On top of all this, the banner ad software Limewire is using is "Cydoor". Many users are complaining that this is spyware. Here is a link to the message in the Gnutella forums where this topic is being discussed"

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  1. Screw Limewire... by J.C.B. · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ...use gnut like the real men. There's no way in hell it's going to get banner ads.

  2. As if... by x136 · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    ...it wasn't slow enough.

    Damn Java.

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  3. Editor by VA+Software · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well at least we didn't get a Slashdot editor adding a witty comment about how terrible advertising is.

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  4. So? by man_ls · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    I haven't used LimeWire since I discovered the KaZaa family of networks. LimeWire seems to have the same problem Gnutella did about two years ago - the network is *SO* huge that it fragments and you can't find anything. Most things >100MB (i.e. DivX movie trailers, etc...) are either interrupted due to dropped routing, or killed by the other host. The only thing I get in the "search monitor" is:

    (this is a snippit of my LimeWire 1.07 search monitor I fired up just for this post. 5 seconds generated these queries):
    xxx
    kiddy f*ck
    *.mp3
    "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" [vv].avi
    nudist
    Windows XP Professional.iso
    how to hack
    *.mp3
    porn.jpg
    l33t warez
    ts.wasco*.avi
    12 year old
    *.mp3
    GOD DAMNIT PEOPLE USE THIS AS A CHAT CLIENT
    a.gif
    kazaa

    and it continues.

    Conclusion: There's nothing good ON the Gnutella network. (!= The Gnutella Network is not good.)