David91 you are quite right that there is a change. And that's what all the kvetching is about. You hit it on the head when you say it's like playing a computer game with a very busy whacking at the keyboard. I didn't sign up to play a computer game, I just want LW to work as fabulously as it once did with a less than 50% failure rate. The change is for most of us a huge obstacle to using the LW app. That doesn't make me regret having put $17.50 into the hands of people who write GNU software for the love of it. If I had a million I would send them half.

I went to my LW Help menu to the Review Limewire command which launched my browser and took me to <http://download.com.com/3302-2179_4-10195993.html> The majority of LW users are now giving it a nasty thumbs down. 73% !!! Time to rethink your posture.

As for debates. I will look for other fora to have the kinda debate I like to have. This is not one of em. Indeed I don't think corporate super-profits are sacred or beyond debate or even legal action. In fact, I thought that's why P2P networks came into being at all. The history of GNU and open source is not found in Microsoft or Disney. It is found among those software writers and computer users who have tried from the get go to keep computing in the hands of the public. Most of them hate the corporations that stole the desktop computer from its humble origins and turned into a Wall Street casino that was part of the wreckage of many people's life savings not long ago, remember?

I live in California. We know all about corporate super-profits in energy and healthcare and entertainment. We got fleeced for billions by unregulated ENRON. The latter used your argument to say it was OK. Last week the NY Times published an article showing that Vivendi Universal is hiring hackers to bring down P2P networks and to write worms that will erase the harddrives of that contain pirated music. The post fake songs on servers that are actually viruses. That IS illegal! Yesterday Vivendi sued Bertelsman over Napster. No love among them either. And they are threatening Apple over iTunes4.

But you wanna give me lessons in economics? I have a PhD in econonics! I recall these cannibals opposed the audio cassette, Betamax, CD ROM, minidisc, Apple iDVD and every technology they feel is a "threat" to their profits. They indeed effectively killed minidisc in the USA. They also deprive the artists the "own" from their rightful share of the intellectual property they are so keen to "protect." The legal caseload on this subject can fill many rooms. But let's not go there. Y'all in Singapore, global shrine to unfeterred capitalism, think all is fair in money and profit. That little prosperous fester of unbridled materialism is also openly authoritarian and has produced the most compliant and self-censored people in the world. Maybe tomorrow the followers of Lee Kwan Yu will dictate death penalty for music pirates. ;-) Time to rethink your posture.

In all the off-topic posting, you carefully avoided saying the one thing that would have been a meaningful contribution to the debate. You did not deny that the methodology I was describing is a means of compensation for Limewire's poor performance. And, for the benefit of all who may have the patience to read to this point, that is the only thing that matters.

I wuzzint careful at all. You are asking people to get the engine started by lifting the hood, tweaking the sparkplugs, venting the carburator and turning the crank by hand. If it starts, jump in the driver's seat and drive. cute. but way complex.

I tried it, it didn't work. My version of LW only has Resume. So I tried to Resume and tried and tried and tried. Knoock yrself out.

off topic is better than off century ;-)

Oh, dear! Reading skills are lacking. If you had taken the trouble to look through the threads on this forum, you would discover that Resume was disabled last year. That was why I so carefully neglected to mention it in my description of what to do. But if you want to continue this demonstration of why you're never going to make a success of a project requiring intelligence, just carry on as you are.

I just downloaded 2.9.11 and it still duzzint download successfully. have fun playing computer games with music downloads. LW will probably die from technical glitches if denial rules in GNUtella land.

Funny if Resume is discontinued why do they keep the command in three versions of 2.9?

carefully or not. geeking for music is like growing wheat to eat bread or keeping cows to have a glass of milk. go for it!

I know it is a redundant question, given your high-powered PhD, but you did remember to trash all the "Limew" labelled files before installing the new version, didn't you? We both know that a tabla rasa gives the best results, right?

I just installed the upgrade to LW vers 2.9.11. I'm finally back in business getting downloads at a rate almost as regular as when I first tried LW using the freeware copy 9 months ago. I'm running it on the new 17" Mac G4 Laptop.

At least you have some good news for those of us in the trenches, but you'd better batten down the hatches in case our Californian friend lets go a salvo on the subject of Scotland's membership of the human race (sorry if my assumption of your location is wrong).

Same error here, I upgraded Limewire today thinking that it would somehow benefit me, now I cannot d/l a damn thing. I get that same error discussed here EVERY TIME I try. I'm running Windows 2000, did not have this problem with the last version of Limewire, I sure as hell will not pay to upgrade if the free version doesn't even work...

Windows 2000, upgraded today and now I can download NOTHING. Each time I try, the download will start but will only run for a few seconds before that error msg pops up. I guess I'll give morpheus a try, this software is unusable in it's current state, the new release is a royal POS...