Limewire Gets Ads, And Accusations of Spyware

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"

Comments

I swear to g*d.....

[HarrisonSilp]

Peer to Peer programs seem to be developed for no reason at all but to hide the fact that usenet is still the best way to get all of this stuff that the MPAA and RIAA don't want us to have. Just wait long enough and you're fav. p2p program will be sued, then along comes another one and they have to sue them too, hopefully this cycle will continue on and on into the future and they'll never notice my 24/7 leeching off of alt.binaries.movies.divx......... btw, Monsters Inc. anyone?

Re:I swear to g*d.....

[HarrisonSilp]

D: regardless of me not believing in a god (I guess you could say I'm more agnostic, I think as silly to say that there is no possibility of a god as it is to say it's a certainty), I had a religious friend who would always spell it that way, to mock the ppl who got mad when he brought up the issue. D: and it just kind of took over and that's how i wrote it.

Re:I swear to g*d.....

[TGK]

Horridly offtopic, but what the hell.

Which part do you object to? His failure to capitalize God or his insertation of an asterix where the o goes? Perhaps I should explain.

god = Any power higher than what we see as mortal. Zeus, for example, was/is a god. Thus, god (no caps) usualy takes the indeffinate article.

God = A specific god. Usualy this refers to "the one true God" AKA the God of Jewdisasm ("I Am") and Christianity. Muslims refer to their God as Allah, but He would also be capitalised and would also take the definate article.

G*d or g*d = A traditional Jewish way of writing God. Typicaly this would be capitalised, but lets call it a typo. G*d (or more accurately G-d) is a method of communicating the idea of God without writing the word. Traditional Jewish Kabalistic law holds that writing God or the name of God is a Bad Thing (tm) and that you shouldn't do it. Thus, religious scholoars apapted and wrote G-d rather than God so they could communicate with each other about God without annoying him.

Hope this clears things up!

Re:I swear to g*d.....

[HarrisonSilp]

Not too bright are we?

Sure, till your news provider stops carrying alt.binaries.foobar because that group is costing THEM $10,000 (or more) per month and doing nobody but warez pups a bit of good.

Not that much at all.

The bandwidth's got to come from somewhere, and nobody's going to pay for you to sit at your computer and freeload. Any exceptions to this rule exist only in a transient state, whether a company (that eventually becomes a FuckedCompany) or an individual (who goes to slam-me-in-the-ass prison for YOUR freeloading).

That's the power of P2P, if you're a w4r3z kiddie at least; the bandwidth is decentralized, and you can l33ch to your heart's content without costing anyone money -- except for yourself and your fellow kiddies, of course.

Jesus what the hell am I paying my ISP for? I swear to god it was the bandwith I'm using every day

Not that you'd care about such things, being that it doesn't mean you'll get more w4r3z or m0v13z or mp3z. Living in the here and now is just so easy, isn't it?

That makes no sense, and if anything if everyone leeched off of news servers (which I hope not because that would mean they'd got shut down pronto fast) it would SAVE bandwith because you'd have a centralized file that could be downloaded by many, from the ISP straight to your DSL line, not back and forth between users clogging up the ISP's bandwith anymore. Am the only one who read all of the "Gnutella can't scale" articles? There's a reasons it can't and if Guntella-type networks keep growing at the rate they are you can't be bitching about how much bandwith I'm taking up from my ISP (which I freaking paid for in the first place, DSL, 640 kbps, that's what it said in the contract and that's what I got), when you're clogging the whole goddamn internet just so you can use your fancy p2p network. Good job.

Re:MSN sure has great software

[man_ls]

I'd have modded this +1 Funny if you'd logged in. Nice job.

Re:Better way to do Ads

[Dasein]

Google does the same thing:

Here is more info.

I used to agree with you

[Entropy_ah]

I know this is gona sound like an advertisement. But here goes...
I've toyed around with all sorts of Gnutella clients ever since it was created. And despite some fancy tricks, none of them could compare with a good centralized file sharing program. The most recent one i tried is called XoloX(MSWin only, sorry). And i havent used a different program since. I know it sound crazy, but you really cant tell your using a gnutella client, and you get good search results and reasonably consistent downloads. I found it really annoying at first that they hide everything about the gnutella network from you, but the creators seem to know what they're doing. Give it a shot if you dont believe me.
There may be hope for gnutella's future after all.

Re:Better way to do Ads

[jesser]

I gave Google $50 to advertise my site on some uncommon keywords and keyword combinations. I was surprised when I learned which keywords and which ads were doing best, but I was able to drop the keywords that were getting the lowest clickthrough rates. If I had been trying to advertise a revenue-generating site, I think that would have been a well-spent $50 for just the knowledge of the clickthrough rates for various keywords and various text ads. Since my site doesn't generate revenue, it was just a fun way to give my favorite search engine some money and learn a little about how advertising works.

Re:mod this up, not down

[MrFredBloggs]

Unfortunately you cannot mark a moderation as `crap, please keep an eye on this moderator and disallow them in future if it continues`.

Re:mod this up, not down

[morie]

You can metamoderate however...