„Yo was?“ LimeWire taucht im Online-Ansturm wieder auf, um das zurückgezogene „60-Minuten“-Segment zu teilen | Redditor scherzt, LimeWire sei jetzt ein „Champion gegen die Dunkelheit“.

One of the more interesting sections:

>As Americans scrambled to share the “Inside CECOT” story, assuming that CBS would be working in the background to pull down uploads, a once-blacklisted tool from the early 2000s became a reliable way to keep the broadcast online.
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>On Reddit, users shared links to a LimeWire torrent, prompting chuckles from people surprised to see the peer-to-peer service best known for infecting parents’ computers with viruses in the 2000s suddenly revived in 2025 to skirt feared US government censorship.
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>“Yo what,” one user joked, highlighting only the word “LimeWire.” Another user, ironically using the LimeWire logo as a profile picture, responded, “man, who knew my nostalgia prof pic would become relevant again, WTF.”
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>LimeWire was created in 2000 and quickly became one of the Internet’s favorite services for pirating music until record labels won a 2010 injunction that blocked all file-sharing functionality. As the Reddit thread noted, some LimeWire users were personally targeted in lawsuits.
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>For a while after the injunction, a fraction of users kept the service alive by running older versions of the software that weren’t immediately disabled. New owners took over LimeWire in 2022, officially relaunching the service. The service’s about page currently notes that “millions of individuals and businesses” use the global file-sharing service today, but for some early Internet users, the name remains a blast from the past.
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>“Bringing back LimeWire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit,” a Bluesky user wrote.
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>“We need a champion against the darkness,” a Reddit commenter echoed. “I side with LimeWire.”

What a blast from the past. I guess even in tech sometimes everything old is new again.

Oh boy LimeWire is a core memory unlocked.

Gnutella is still alive?

Frostwire was better

Emule/edonkey, Overnet, Newsgroups are back in style baby!

The FBI sent me a letter saying I owed a lot of money for each download I did back around 2000. It was something like a $1000 penalty for each download. That was it for me and Limewire.

RIP to a GOAT

I miss the way you could browse around other users‘ libraries, it was the way I found so much new music in college. You’d find whatever song you were originally searching for, look around at the uploaders other files because you had similar tastes, and next thing you knew you’d be downloading the demo album from some random band in Ohio that never made it beyond playing local bar shows.

The last thing I downloaded from limewire was a „Jennifer Aniston Brad Pitt Sex tape“. It took me a few days to get it. When I finally did it was just a 30min video of some guy masturbating. I have learned a lot since then.

Millennial headline. Sucks that CBS is state media now.

Napster – OG

I always believed in you, LimeWire.