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Limewire LLC is dedicated to building advanced file-sharing client/server software which will connect computing devices over public and private networks. Our team of developers hails from some of the world's most highly-regarded academic and professional institutions, such as MIT, Columbia, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, CIBC Oppenheimer, and Compaq. Lime Wire LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lime Group, a technology incubator based in downtown New York City. Limewire music is a New York based Limited Liability Company, was founded in August, 2000. The music download company was founded to develop technologies to develop and profit from the formation of worldwide peer-to-peer networks across the internet. At current, L W has the world's largest team of developers building applications for the Gnutella network. Limewire's first product, a software package named LimeWire pro is a powerful and scalable serverless networking software that enables entities on the internet to share, search for, and obtain files via the Gnutella Network. LW has already achieved considerable popularity, having been downloaded more than 3,000,000 times as of 5/30/01, including 250,000 downloads during the week of May 19-25. A recent PC Pitstop study shows that Limewire free resides on over 1.5% of PCs worldwide. The LimeWire software was designed to be free to individual users, in order to accelerate the growth of the network as a whole and introduce people to the power of peer-to-peer networks. Although LimeWire pro and basic is currently is being used mainly for file-sharing, LimeWire has the potential to become an informational tool with capabilities beyond those currently existing on the Internet, such as the World Wide Web. Content-serving entities on a peer-to-peer network will be able to respond to queries with dynamically generated, real-time information. Search requestors will be able to query and draw data directly from one or more databases, without having to navigate through several bulky web interfaces. Search requestors will also be able to communicate with multiple computers simultaneously, and preselect the type and form of information they will receive in response to their requests. Lime Wire is already building the technologies to communicate over peer-to-peer networks though structured metadata queries, transcending the text-based search capabilities of the World Wide Web and the current Gnutella network.

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LimeWire is a free and open source Gnutella peer-to-peer network client released under the GNU General Public License. The program allows users to share files using the Gnutella peer-to-peer protocol. It was the first file sharing program to support firewall-to-firewall file transfers, a feature introduced in version 4.2, which was released in November 2004.

It is written in Java and hence runs on any computer with the Java virtual machine installed. To facilitate installation for casual users, the developers release installation packages for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and for Linux, in RPM format.

LimeWire uses the SHA-1 and Tiger tree hash cryptographically secure hash functions to ensure that downloaded data is uncompromised. Although Ed Felten and others have identified possible vulnerabilities in the SHA1 algorithm, because LimeWire pro does not rely on SHA1 alone these vulnerabilities do not have many adverse implications for LimeWire's verification of downloaded files.

The Windows version of the product installer includes a stripped-down version of Sun's Java installer which will download and install version 1.5 of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) if it detects the machine doesn't have Java, or has a version of Java below version 1.4.1.

Lime Wire LLC, the developer of the product, distributes two versions of the program; a basic, free version, and an enhanced version sold for a small fee, which is said to offer faster downloads. Prior to April 2004, the free version of the software was distributed with a bundled program called "LimeShop" (a variant of TopMoxie), which was considered by computer security experts to be spyware. With the removal of all bundled software in LimeWire 4.9, these objections were addressed.

Being open source, LW has spawned several forks, including LionShare, an experimental software development project at Penn State University, and Acquisition, a popular Apple Macintosh-based Gnutella client with a proprietary interface.

According to a 28 June 2005 report in The New York Times Lime Wire music may stop distributing LimeWire due to the outcome of MGM v. Grokster. However, new versions are being released (version 4.9 released on August 26) with smarter search results, optimized downloads and other features.

External links
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LimeWire Music and other music resources.