LimeWire was the file-sharing program of a generation: a green-and-grey Gnutella client full of misnamed MP3s, fake files and viruses. On 26 October 2010 a federal court injunction forced it to stop distributing the software, and the app displayed a legal notice instead.
- Domain in 2010
- limewire.com
- Launched
- 2000
- Founders
- Mark Gorton
- Owner in 2010
- Lime Wire LLC
- Status today
- Shut down
What people used it for
- Searching and downloading MP3s over Gnutella
- Sharing files from a shared folder
Interface characteristics
- Green lime logo and a search-results table
- Bitrate, quality and "sources" columns
- Download progress bars at the bottom
Notable features
- LimeWire Pro upsell
- Notorious for viruses and mislabelled tracks
What happened later
LimeWire settled with the labels for $105 million in 2011; the brand was revived in 2022 as an unrelated NFT and AI company.
Archived on the Wayback Machine
Archived pages open on web.archive.org (Internet Archive). They are historical captures, not part of this exhibit.
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