Limewire

[wilma77]

I am unable to get Limewire to connect, my connection quality remains at one bar indefinitely. I have Norton Internet Security 360 installed on my computer, I don't know if this is anything to do with the problem. Does anyone know how I might solve this problem.

Many Thanks

[Yorky Lass]

Mine is the same and has been like it for ages. I think Virgin are blocking it. I read somewhere that they were going to do that to stop illegal downloads.

[Harris-Tweed]

I have virgin and have no problems with Limewire.

[Harris-Tweed]

I think that you may have to upgrade, this will cost about $20,

[A.Guest]

Press release early August 2008

Bad news if your ISP is Virgin Media and you use Limewire, because they have sent out letters to over 800 people threatening to disconnect their broadband connection if it continues.

Virgin have teamed up with the BPI to track the illegal downloads of copyrighted music. They do this by Virgin sending your IP address to the BPI, then sending you a letter (I'm not sure whether this is just for music or all media in general).

But this tracking is not just for Limewire users, but for any P2P software users that includes torrent software such as bittorrent and utorrent.

[Gormless]

I downloaded and used Limewire once. I ended up with a pc riddled with malware of all kinds, and once I had got rid of it, I got rid of Limewire. If you use it, trying to get a bit on the cheap, denying the musicians their royalties, then you deserve what you get.

[Groupie]

See my 23/10/08 post about LIMEWIRE the very helpful answers tell you all you need to know about this program

[Groupie]

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