The demise of limewire and frostwire

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 11:51 -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 17:20, Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
> > Just curious what folk are using instead of limewire and frostwire, now
> > that RIAA have had their way with them.
> 
> Happy New Year, Roger.  Well, I don't know, I thought limewire and
> frostwire were Windoze programs.  I've been using transmission.  Just
> drop a torrent file into a configured directory and it starts up
> (assuming you haven't reached your configured limit on number of
> running torrents).

They are written in and run where Java runs. So they work on Linux.
These apps are Gnutella clients. They search the Gnutella network for
things, and allow download. They are not torrent clients. I have found
that they work rather well and so have used them to explore for
interesting MP3 files and the like.

I think it is odd that (1) RIAA was able to have removed clients that
can be used to download legitimate non-copyrighted material and (2) this
has resulted in their removal world-wide. Perhaps they are looking for a
non-US location. I have not heard that.


Yours sincerely,

Roger Oberholtzer

OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST

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