[Software] This was LimeWire, the great rival of eMule to download from the Internet

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For several decades, millions of users around the world have used P2P networks and their clients to upload and download content, as is the case with LimeWire. These provide us with a reliability and stability that, for example, we do not find in the usual web browsers when downloading large files.

All this is carried out through a series of clients that act as software that we install on the PC. Let's say that these programs offer us a simple interface to use to configure and share all kinds of content through these networks that we mentioned. For all this, in recent years we have used the po[CENSORED]r files in Torrent format, which are sure to be more than familiar to most of you. 

Throughout these years we have had at our fingertips a multitude of clients with these characteristics that we tell you that we can install and use. In these moments, I am sure that many of you have solutions such as uTorrent or qBittorrent that facilitate this type of sharing task. It is also interesting to know that these clients offer us a series of additional functions that allow us to get the most out of our connection.

It is evident that when uploading or downloading files from here, one of the main objectives we are looking for is speed. Both on the way up and on the way down we try to optimize and squeeze everything we can from our internet connection. But in addition to those mentioned, over the years a good number of programs with these characteristics have become po[CENSORED]r for P2P networks. As a clear example of all this, the case that we are going to talk about next, the software called LimeWire. How LimeWire worked
Many of you may be familiar with this application, as it was extremely successful in these environments a few years ago. Specifically, we are referring to an open source project that used the Gnutella network just like other programs like BearShare, and that allowed us to share files of all kinds. However, for those interested in continuing to use this application for these specific tasks, it must be said that LimeWire stopped working. 

 

 

           

 

As we can see, it had a very simple interface, a mix between uTorrent and eMule. We could search the entire Gnutella network without relying on servers, and apply filters to quickly find what we wanted. In the lower part, the list of downloads, and an integrated player that allowed us to watch the movies, or listen to the music, while it was being downloaded. This way we could know if the file was legitimate and we didn't waste time if it was fake.

At the time it was replaced by two other similar proposals such as FrostWire and WireShare. And it is that largely due to a lawsuit imposed by the RIAA for copyright violations, LimeWire stopped developing and distributing in the past year 2010. This is something that was extended both to the basic version and to the Pro that put at our disposal a multitude of functions to share files.

This means that in the middle of 2022 we recommend you use other similar applications to use the aforementioned Torrent files. At the time, the application that we have described to you and that in its day had many followers, became the history of software. But despite all this, it is certainly not difficult for us to find very useful solutions. These will be able to adapt to our needs now to share these files via P2P networks.