Using Limewire with a mac

Anyone use limewire with your mac? I know on a PC it pretty much toasts the hard drive after a year or so, at least with my old PC. Will it do the same to a mac?

fatbody said:

Anyone use limewire with your mac? I know on a PC it pretty much toasts the hard drive after a year or so, at least with my old PC. Will it do the same to a mac?

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Nope, but I still uninstalled it because I'm sort of a paranoid about downloading a bunch of programs to my computer in the first week that I have it.

hmmm ive had it for a while seems fine. *shrug* still does what i need it to do.

it doesnt contain any viruses, unlike the pc version does

Never had any issues with it but I don't use it much.

Cool, I downloaded it to get songs that are unreleased, it always seems that somebody has a copy and sure enough I got what I wanted. Generally I use I-tunes but in this instance they didn't have what I wanted.

Sounds less than legal to me and not a good subject to bring up on a public forum.

I prefer Xtorrent. Goes well with legal, public domain content.

Limewire is perfectly legal, downloading songs may not be but I LOVE PRETTY PINK BOWS AND RIBBONS IN MOUNTAINS OF ICE CREAM if the government comes after me for songs that aren't released so be it. Besides, mentioning it on a public forum is a far stretch from getting PC to search my home and computer. Besides what they actually go after people for is sharing not downloading and certainly not two songs.

fatbody said:

Limewire is perfectly legal, downloading songs may not be but **** if the government comes after me for songs that aren't released so be it. Besides, mentioning it on a public forum is a far stretch from getting PC to search my home and computer. Besides what they actually go after people for is sharing not downloading and certainly not two songs.

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Just so you understand...

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Illegal Activity: We choose to follow United States law in regard to what is permissible to be discussed here. Therefore discussion of illegal file sharing, cracked programs, requests for serial numbers, and any other breaches of copyright or other illegal activity are not allowed in these forums.

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Also profanity is strictly prohibited. This includes the use of symbols or different spellings to try and mask it.

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Limewire is perfectly legal, downloading songs may not be but I LOVE PRETTY PINK BOWS AND RIBBONS IN MOUNTAINS OF ICE CREAM if the government comes after me for songs that aren't released so be it. Besides, mentioning it on a public forum is a far stretch from getting PC to search my home and computer.

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It's for your own good! ISPs get a list of IP addresses every month from sources monitoring the internet, who look around places such as this. Your ISP could well terminate your internet contract as they could face legal action for letting their customers download illegal content on their network.

A friend of mine who downloads movies online recently got an email from Comcast telling him they'll cut off his internet service if he does it again. Scary!

use azureus, works much better with mac, so i have heard,

Azureus is a giant resource hog on the Mac. I would recommend either Xtorrent or Transmission.

Limewire is not illegal. Downloading pirated Software, Music and videos is.

Yeah, its only breaking the law if you use it to download things that are illegal (i.e. copyrighted songs). If the programs were illegal you wouldn't see people discussing the different torrent apps here.