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Redditor jokes LimeWire is now a "champion against the darkness."

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[–] Hyperrealism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 hour ago

I love how the censored segment was 'accidentally' published in Canada.

Feigned incompetence and malicious compliance is a great way to resist fascists and collaborators.

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I did see this headline yesterday and then downloaded the 60 minutes segment using Nicotine+ which is a Soulseek client. I did look at an alternative to Limewire for linux called "Frostwire" but apparently it's now just a bittorrent client, where it used to support Gnutella in the past. And finally I did find that the internet archive of course had a torrent available which I also got for good measure.

EDIT: It was possible to get something with gtk-gnutella, but it was nowhere near as fast, nor did I get more than just one result. It may be more resiliant, but if nobody is using it..

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 10 points 4 hours ago

Lol we just had it circulating as is. The video was all over the fedi.

[–] webkitten@piefed.social 56 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The early 2000s music sharing software company LimeWire — now resurrected as a crypto company by new owners — won rights to the infamous Fyre Festival in an auction that was held on eBay, reportedly beating out Ryan Reynolds’ company for the rights.

Just get it on archive.org; it's probably a lot safer.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Gnutella network is definitely still active, athough not even close to the level it once was. It has plenty of drawbacks but one of the few advantages over torrents is that it doesn't need trackers. Just enough clients online to connect with one another.

You can even still find Shareaza with a quick search.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Feel like I've been doing this too long to run P2P clients on my desktop. Any good projects to let you self-host something to interact with the gnutella network on an external server? Something with a nice webui?

Not that I know of. The shift to Bittorrent after Limewire's demise pretty much killed new Gnutella client development. There are a few desktop clients still under "active maintenance" but most of them haven't been updated in ages.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Torrents don't need trackers either. They can work with just DHT.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but unless you know the hash of a file, you can't look it up. The gnutella network can find files by name.

[–] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Quaint. Its like they haven't heard of Archive

[–] iloveDigit@piefed.social 17 points 6 hours ago

Or BitTorrent

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

The corporate entity that now owns lime wire, didnt they also previousLy do a bunch of NFT nonsense?

What a joke

Article also uses the term "limewire torrent"... 🤦‍♂️

[–] jbone@piefed.ca 13 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The use of Limewire in this context seems to be more of an interesting news novelty.

That being said, in any democratic leaning country that truly values freedom (in the real sense, not the polemical American sense), the distribution of such media would not be an issue and you wouldn't have to resort to Limewire, a torrent would suffice or even another broadcast TV network would air with violation of copyright.