This is not the most advertised feature of LimeWire, which may a way of keeping legal challenges at bay, but it's a shame that you can't search for torrents within the program. LimeWire searches remain within the Gnutella P2P network, but you can open torrent files with it, and it f unctions very well as a torrent download client.

This is much easier than tapping out IP addresses, and if enough of your friends use LimeWire, it could become great community sharing tool. You can sign in with your Gmail, Jabber or LiveJournal accounts, and share files between any of your friends there who are also on LimeWire. The friends function has been much improved.

The inbuilt player is still unintrusive and useful for checking audio and video files, but no more.Īs mentioned earlier, LimeWire goes out of it's way to check you are aware of the legal implications of illegal filesharing and on installation you have to agree to not infringe copyright, and if you download a file for which LimeWire can't find a license you will be warned and can stop or continue at your own discretion. The latest design makes scanning your search results much easier, and downloading files is totally intuitive. Otherwise it's business as usual on LimeWire all via a simple and and clear interface. The library is so far a little limited compared to competitor download stores, but we expect this will expand. However, like Vuze before it, LimeWire appears to be encouraging legal downloads with the LimeWire Store.

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