p2pnet - rss feed: LimeWire is Hot, says Lycos
p2pnet.net News:- LimeWire, Hottest New Music File Swapping/Sharing Service, says the Lycos press release for the Lycos 50 for Week Ending May 14, 2005
And just to drive it home, Death of KaZaA, says the Lycos write-up, going on:
“Could music file sharing/swapping service LimeWire (#37) become the next KaZaA (#11)? LimeWire makes its debut on this week’s list, as the only other music swapping site generating interest with web users …”
“I’ve been waiting for this for a very long time,” LimeWire’s coo Greg Bildson told p2pnet.
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May 17th, 2005 at 7:00 pm
LimeWire is very nice, when I’m not using BT I use it or eMule.
May 17th, 2005 at 11:49 pm
I’ve been a LW supporter for a few years, mostly because of their opensource nature and Mac support.
The project has just started offering “bounties” to attract even more open source developers, and it seems to be paying off. http://www.limewire.org/wishlist.shtml
May 18th, 2005 at 4:21 am
I have a little problem with that. LimeWire is Gnutella-based and Gnutella is an aging P2P network, save to say that LimeWire can make use of the new Gnutella2 network as well as the legacy network. The only reason it’s so pop is that Gnutella is pretty much a non-issue to the RIAA and MPAA these days, they’d rather concentrate on more popular file-sharing networks like BitTorrent, FastTrack or Blubster IMHO. The LimeWire people shouldn’t get their hopes up too high.
May 18th, 2005 at 2:52 pm
LimeWire is already the most popular file-sharing application if you go by the number of weekly downloads. They left heavy weights like Kazaa, eMule or Azureus behind and if this trend continues it will be the most popular file-sharing program in less than a year.