Sorry Sleepless, Torrents im already lost.
If you have a link to explain in simple terms, that an old hippie may grasp
What are Torrants, ill be off n truckin in persute of knowage.
If you have the time.

Ps. Other points of post well taken.Thanks
Namaste.

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mickjapa108

The only reason I mentioned it is, that Limewire will be supporting BitTorrent as well as the gnutella network. You can read here what torrents are:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

It's the most effective P2P network for large files. When making a torrent you add entire folders.

Let's say you have a non-copyright DVD, that you made yourself:

If using the gnutella network you could never share it effectively, because you only share single files. Also there is a 2GB limit on files, so you could not put a 1+ hour DVD in a .zip or .rar archive and share that.

If you made a torrent, you would add the entire folder containing all the files no problem

thank you all for your tips. I am enlightened!

Sleepless
WOW! What a read Ive not read anything like that since Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy The Origanal book.
Maybe it should be made a sticky, If Torants are coming to LimeWire
People should be ready for them.

Ps.amidoodles,you most welcome anytime,come back soon.
Peace.

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mickjapa108

I would, but I would like to see where this torrent support is going first. It's in the Beta right now, and the advanced options are a bit slim.

Like for one, you have no option in Limewire to make a torrent, only download them. Also it doesn't display the amount of seeds/peers and gives you no option to start and stop torrents apart from removing them out of Limewire completely.

I have made some requests on things that should be added, and I am currently waiting to see where it goes, before doing much more with it.

Using a program like Azureus, you could make torrents from your files, and you would still be able to download those torrents through Limewire.

I am keeping a few very rare torrents alive with limited bandwidth and I need to see how many people want or have each one to give the rarest preference. Limewire does not allow me to do that.

Examples would be:

The very first album from [Edit], which was never released (Original Studio version)

[Edit] (Bootleg)

A [Edit] Unplugged concert (Bootleg)

[Edit] MTV Unplugged 1990 (Bootleg)

These things are impossible to buy anywhere. These are mostly .flac torrents as well, so up to 7-800 MB, thus not very easy to share on Gnutella, with only one seed.

Edited to comply with the House Rules.
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