It is written in Java and uses the Azureus Engine. The courts are dumb and the RIAA is suing everybody the distibutes free music just cause they are not making any money any more its stupid though because only less than one percent of people make it into the music industry shutting down limewire will (not) stop people from downloading free music.and if the courts shut down file-sharing websites more will come out so basically its a waste of money to try and stop websites that distribute free music cause more will come out everyday regardless of what the courts do there are over 100,000 fire-sharing websites where you can get free music if the courts think they can battle the free music war they are wasting time because its like battling the porn industry telling them that it is wrong to do what they do in reality if that ever did happen they wont ever be able to shut down 1.Vuze (also known as Azureus) is a free-to-use BitTorrent client used to transfer files via the BitTorrent protocol. Check out Alternative.to for more LimeWire replacements.

LimeWire users who are looking for an alternative may want to take a look at the Open Source client FrostWire which offers a similar functionality. And while the P2P software is not available on the developer's homepage, it is still available on third party download portals. Others report that the client itself is still working as intended and showing results for searches, which makes sense considering that it operates on the Gnutella network which has not been affected by the ruling. Some users report that the LimeWire client installed on their system now refuses to update. Downloading or sharing copyrighted content without authorization is illegal. This is an official notice that Limewire is under a court ordered injunction to stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing software. This has likely changed a bit over the course of two years, with torrents become more popular. The figures are from 2008, but show a massive market share of 37%, followed by uTorrent with 14%.

TorrentFreak has the whole story and some interesting figures on the market share of the now-defunct P2P system.

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