Looks like the money grabbing nazis have stuck their boots in to stop the use of LW or limit its use. . Forced Update & Legal Notice Sample Image.

(The weblink that message came from has since been closed down so instead you may receive an error message 'You are offline', but ignore this as shown here


Therefore I strongly recommend you ignore their update suggestions & stay with the version of LW you have. LW 4 does not have force update options, neither does LW 5.5.10 or earlier.

Recommended is WireShare. WireShare released March 2014 is an upgrade from LimeWire Pirate Edition 5.6.2 released late 2010. WireShare has an inclusive installer for connection file & hostiles. WireShare includes several improvements which fix the Java 7 issue, no deletion of the connection file, several other bug-fixes & improvements.

You can still use LW 5 if you downgrade back to LW 5.5.10. Basic instructions are here: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/359411-post2.html

Installers are found here: LW installers for Windows _ and _ LW installers for Mac OSX _ and _ LW installers for Linux.

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(The LW 5.6 beta versions are safe to use. Also, the LimeWire Pirate Edition (LPE) 5.6.2 removes the Legal warning.)

If you are presently a LW 5.5 Pro user, then your activation will hopefully be automatically recognised. Else the program is used in Basic mode. It is not possible to activate new Pro users even with the Pro key code.

There is also the LimeWire Pirate version which is based on LW Basic but gives as good as LW Pro. No legal notice on startup.
Recommended is WireShare. WireShare 5.6.3 released March 2014 is an upgrade from LimeWire Pirate Edition 5.6.2 and can be found in same download locations as LPE.

LimeWire 5 Changelog

* Note: LW 5 will not connect without a fresh Gnutella.net file so follow those instructions. We have produced a special very quick runnning program to do it all in a matter of half a second for Mac & Windows. Linux might be soon to come for the quick fix.

To stop the Legal notice on start window, simply click My Files / Library tab or do a search & it will vanish. For LW 4, simply click on the white area or do a search.


Do not disable file-sharing, do not 'freeload', if nobody were sharing files, you know of course there would be no files to download. If you are a part of the file-sharing community, then share your part and be a respected member of the file-sharing community. Do you never return what you borrow from your friends? Do you never return your partner's kisses and attention? File-sharing can even be a passion!
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