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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. WAS around 10k, now is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bandwidth alone ... is around $10,000 month!

    That's the pre-SlashdotEffect figure, right?/p.

  2. Geez by LS · · Score: 5, Funny

    Non-story. Limewire is open source. Go download it and remove any ads if you want, whiny bitches:

    http://limewire.limewire.org/servlets/ProjectHom e

    --
    There is a fine line between being a cultivated citizen and being someone else's crop. - A. J. Patrick Liszkie
  3. MSN sure has great software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    You know! I can get great music over at MSN. There is a free media player called the Microsoft Media player which has a special format called WMA. With WMA you can get cd quality over music at only 64k bit-rates! According to the link inside teh the media player settings, its far supperior to mp3! Microsoft also confirms its better as do the major record labels. The record labels recommend it? Wow! This is some great stuff. ALmost as good as AOL. Now AOL is for real hackers. Too bad it doesn't have free music. I am concerned about the thieves who use gnutella. At least I am legal by trusting Microsoft. You should all trust them more often.

    1. Re:MSN sure has great software by Billly+Gates · · Score: 3, Funny
      Wow! Your smart enough to program in Visual Studio.NET and create UML documents yet you can't even terminate an AHREF link. I trust you really know what your talking about.

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      http://saveie6.com/
    2. Re:MSN sure has great software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      If I had mod points, you'd get them. Too bad you were AC.

      This is the sort of post that shows the need for a "+1, Troll" rating.

      A well written troll is rare, and deserves to be acknowledged.

  4. Spies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I heard Linux is spyware. Why, with a simple one letter command

    $ w
    ....

    I can see what anybody on a system is doing, in REAL TIME! Imagine what this would mean for marketroids who got ahold of this information!

    The only solution is to delete Linux from your systems now. Here's how:

    $ DELETE LINUX.EXE
    bash: DELETE: command not found

    It's even nice enough to tell you that it's not found anymore. Hope this helps everyone rid their systems of spyware!

  5. Re:Many users are complaining that this is spyware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Let me get this straight...

    You're going to sue a company for false advertising and privacy invasion, a company that writes a software product with the (implied) purpose of allowing you to download pirated music/videos/software for free?

    Isn't that kinda like suing your drug dealer for not providing you with a high enough grade of coke for your tastes? Or suing your hitman for poor customer service?

    C'mon...