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What can you have instead of Limewire?

Aura;1336467 wrote: What can you have instead of Limewire?


I'd use FrostWire.com Download Free P2P BitTorrent/Gnutella Client - No Subscriptions, Just Download and Install in preference, if I wanted a point to point peering package.

I have heard that Ares is good, is that better then Limewire? Also what is Torrents Search Engine like, and how does that compare to Ares?

Aura;1336478 wrote: I have heard that Ares is good, is that better then Limewire? Also what is Torrents Search Engine like, and how does that compare to Ares?


It depends on what you mean by better, which means deciding what you're going to use it for. The main problem with frostwire, ares and limewire for anyone wanting to download copyright files is that copyright owners can watch who's downloading files on which they own the copyright. They can then get lawyers to send out demands for pre-court settlement payments from you which can worry their recipients. Of course, if what you want to download is copyright-free then those considerations don't apply.

Comparison of file sharing applications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia has a useful column which tells you whether the package allows anonymous connection. If it does then copyright-holder monitoring can't happen. Some of those packages will let you access the major torrent lists, some will let you see the files that frostwire or ares would show.

Torrent search engines are websites that let you download torrent headers into your torrent client, the torrent client then fetches the actual file you're after. There are lots of torrent search engines and they don't care which client you've installed.