Limewire Under Fire

[GhostShip]

Limewire a Gnutella network client has been seeing a fair few fake files recently, in a copycat move to that seen on WinMX they are targeting Limewire users with spoofed results etc.

It also seems that as you can specify the client type to the network its being used to target only Limewire clients, many of the other Gnutella clients are not being affected.

This then looks like the old war of attrition, where the disruption companies endeavour to drive away all users, legal sharers or copyright infringers in indiscriminate attacks on the network infrastructure.

I think many will find a home on winmx using the revolutionary fake results filter from winmxgroup, after all its our legal right to be able to share whether they like it or not.

I'll be watching to see whats going to happen next and keep you all up to date on it.

[SamSeeSam]

A black day for P2P I guess 
But hopefully, a good day for winmx   :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
But since limewire is centralised... I wonder if it is possible to stop the flooding there itself.

Cheers

[7]

I noticed this too (reading about it @ Slyck).  Looks to be some quite familiar addresses involved.

I've only tried Limewire briefly (for like 30 minutes), seems a simple enough client, and looks to have a decent host blocker built into it which could go a long way to helping the users clean up the mess (simple right-click result -> block ability, and useful internal blocker with wildcard support for ranges and such (what WinMX should have had a LONG time ago)).  I'm guessing they'll do O.K.

[GhostShip]

Technically I'm confident they will overcome any hurdles but its whether they feel this attaches any extra liability to them if they do provide a central block list of the parasites, they are after all under fire at the moment from the Cartel.

I'm pretty sure that the blocking is not likely to be something that will swing a judgement either way as its only ever been brought to a courts attention as a minor supporting argument and not the main thrust of any network versus Cartel case.

What worries me about a non centralised list is that it will not be as effective in protecting the network, the Cartels have no legal right to launch denial of service attacks or steal users bandwidths as they do, it may be possible to launch a case against them for theft of service as they are not using a winmx client and therefore hacking in illegally to the network and its users without lawful permission, the users after all only agree to allow each other free use of their resources, not some mafia company.