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what's line wire supposed to be?
it's the way we used to get our music for free back then
Torrenting software. And a darn good one too
P2P, not torrent. Torrent is P2P but not all P2P is torrenting.
Pre-torrenting.
It was simply peer to peer file sharing rather than torrenting. Torrenting allows you to collect different parts of the file from different people. Lime Wire just depending on a stable connection between you and the host machine.
It was also full of fake shit and viruses. I remember spending hours getting rid of "Gator" a couple of times as a stupid college student.
I swear I remember limewire having the equivalent of seeds and files being downloaded from multiple places at the same time.
Mandela effect?
Yeah I'm with you, hell I even remember being on WinMX before that and even that having multiple seeds?
Limewire was around before Brahm Cohen created Bit Torrent.
Yeah it was so good that every download was a gamble if you were getting the song you wanted or uncensored war footage and cp