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Summary

A peer network used primarily for music file sharing. In an organization, can degrade network performance and consume vast amounts of storage. Is bundled with many spyware/adware products.

Vendor Description

Lime Wire LLC is dedicated to building advanced file-sharing client/server software which will connect computing devices over public and private networks. Our team of developers hails from some of the world's most highly-regarded academic and professional institutions, such as MIT, Columbia, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, CIBC Oppenheimer, and Compaq. Lime Wire LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lime Group, a technology incubator based in downtown New York City. Lime Wire LLC, a New York based Limited Liability Company, was founded in August, 2000. Lime Wire was founded to develop technologies to develop and profit from the formation of worldwide peer-to-peer networks across the internet. At current, Lime Wire has the world's largest team of developers building applications for the Gnutella network. Lime Wire's first product, a software package named LimeWire, is a powerful and scalable serverless networking software that enables entities on the internet to share, search for, and obtain files via the Gnutella Network. LimeWire has already achieved considerable popularity, having been downloaded more than 3,000,000 times as of 5/30/01, including 250,000 downloads during the week of May 19-25. A recent PC Pitstop study shows that Lime Wire resides on over 1.5% of PCs worldwide. The LimeWire software was designed to be free to individual users, in order to accelerate the growth of the network as a whole and introduce people to the power of peer-to-peer networks. Although LimeWire currently is being used mainly for file-sharing, LimeWire has the potential to become an informational tool with capabilities beyond those currently existing on the Internet, such as the World Wide Web. Content-serving entities on a peer-to-peer network will be able to respond to queries with dynamically generated, real-time information. Search requestors will be able to query and draw data directly from one or more databases, without having to navigate through several bulky web interfaces. Search requestors will also be able to communicate with multiple computers simultaneously, and preselect the type and form of information they will receive in response to their requests. Lime Wire is already building the technologies to communicate over peer-to-peer networks though structured metadata queries, transcending the text-based search capabilities of the World Wide Web and the current Gnutella network.

Category

P2P:  Any peer-to-peer file swapping program, such as Audiogalaxy, Bearshare, Blubster, E-Mule, Gnucleus, Grokster, Imesh, KaZaa, KaZaa Lite, Limewire, Morpheus, Shareaza, WinMX and Xolox. In an organization, can degrade network performance and consume vast amounts of storage. May create security issues as outsiders are granted access to internal files. Often bundled with Adware or Spyware.

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