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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. 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
  2. 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.