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Limewire?
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Limewire doesn't give viruses... what you download can have a virus
Limewire does suck (in my opinion)
Try Acquisition
You should always be careful with what you download... Mac or PC
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ALL of the current viruses on Limewire are Windows viruses and won't affect macs. A virus will never be in an MP3 file though, so it's pretty hard to get one, unless you download one of those 128 KB Zip files and Unzip and run the virus which is a time consuming and obviously stupid thing to do. Even if you did do all that though the file wouldnt execute because its for Windows.
I second this.
However, Limewire is good for convenience when you want to just simply find a song. Torrents are good for when regular P2P programs fail (corrupted songs, static, low quality..ect)
All for uncopyrighted files of course.
Nah, that's what google is for.
I found the song I was searching for on my first click from google's results list, the 7th link on the list.
And youtube usually has every song too.
If I'm searching for a song, I just use iTunes and search my collection... it's probably there, if it's a song I like! Maybe even several versions of it, by different artists.
The problem I've had with Limewire isn't so much a virus as hard disc failure. I didn't realise this at first, as I had a lot of B-Tree corruption problems. When I finally went to see someone at the genius bar they warned me against Limewire as allegedly it writes to disc in an unconventional way and can corrupt information already on it. I suppose this was partly due to the large file I had downloaded, but I landed up changing my hard disc and stopped using Limewire. No problems since
google has free downloads go to youtube
www.youtube.com/lil0egy0kid
thats my youtube page i have a video that shows how to download songs of google for free watch it
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i prefer itunes alot more though its so hella better (hella better?) i make no sense
www.youtube.com/lil0egy0kid
thats my youtube page i have a video that shows how to download songs of google for free watch it
enjoy subscribe rate comment i prefer itunes alot more though its so hella better (hella better?) i make no sense
Absolutely false. The genius just told you that so you'd download music from their company. They're not going to tell you to use Limewire. Your HD likely failed from something other than Limewire, either a mechanical failure or some spyware downloaded from somewhere else.
If you understand how an OS works, you won't allow yourself to be deceived by such nonsense. No program on your computer will ever write to the disk or read from a disk. When a program needs to write to the disk, it gives the information to be written to the OS and the OS handles all input and output and interaction with devices. It is impossible for a program to physically damage a disk, other than just wear it out from overuse, shortening its natural lifespan.
Torrents typically are better for getting something in whole as opposed to Acquisition or Limewire when you only need a single file. Also, on torrent sites read the comments, people will usually post when there is something wrong with it - whether it's poor quality or doesn't work.
You don't. That's the inherent problem with Limewire is that they are not a legal distributor of music.