Can't download a thing - paid £20 to download some games have tried dozens of files none of them work, not free and not good - rip off

Limewire is FREE. The Basic version is FREE, & the pro versin costs $18.88 but only if you get it from the official LW site: http://www.limewire.com/english/content/download.shtml

Perhaps you should see Membership? - *WARNING*BEWARE** - Download p2p Clients ONLY Thru Official Sites

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I don't mind paying for it if it would actually work - its a piece of shite !

It's not the program that's the problem. This year in particular has seen a lot of virii & auto-generated spam & corrupt mp3 files being put onto the Gnutella network. This not only affects LW, but affects all other gnutella programs ... & there's a lot of them. FrostWire, Phex, Qtella, Shareaza, Bearshare, Morpheus, Gnucleus, & a long list of others.

Learning to identify what you're after, the size it should be & how to avoid the bad files (including games that are incomplete) will help you to find what you're after. And this is now something we all must learn to cope with.

BTW I answered your other thread, but it's now in the Upload/Downld problems section where it should be.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
640 K [of computer memory] ought be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates (1981)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein
When facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein
Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." -- Frank Zappa
"Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." / "May your sh*t come to life and kiss you on the face." / "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?" / "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." / "There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!" / "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." / "The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." / "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." / "The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life." / "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa
"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson

Lord of the rings posted a reply to you the same moment you sent the first message in this thread.

Clearly you have not read that reply

Now do you want help or do you want to sling abuse.

Please read the links Lord Of The Rings has given you in both threads (well maybe not ALL "Warning Beware", before posting another mouseful of abuse.

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I'm not hurling abuse and with all due respect I'm not a geek and have no idea what you are talking about ! I just want to click on a game, download it and then play it - obviously too much to ask ! McAfee is now busy unearthing no fewer than 5 infected files on my hard disk and I've lost 2 evenings trying to do what the site advised me would take "minutes"

I never said you were a geek!

You said: " I've lost 2 evenings trying to do what the site advised me would take "minutes"

Here I think is the heart of the problem. What site was that? I believe you have gone to a site which has promised you all sorts of amazing things, including games you could play in minutes. Only this site you went to does not make the software that does these amazing things. The site takes your money and supplies you with a version of Limewire which may well be doctored , filled with spyware and in short , probably not the same as the Limewire that you can get for free at Limewire.com.

Limewire does not promise you will be playing games in minutes. It is an application that connects file sharers together, or hopes to. In fact there are more takers than givers, and sadly a lot of the givers upload viruses to the takers.

I could go on but ~I won't. I just hope you have read the recommended links and can begin to understand that your indignation should be at those who sold you this "package" and not Limewire or these forums. You paid £20 for this package and that is nearly double the cost of Limewire pro and infinitely more litterally than Limewire Basic which I very much expect you have in some form or another.

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http://gamedownloadaccess.com/index....7-b5528cf3b8b7

Fair comment mate - it was this site btw

well they do say "Your membership is backed by a 7 day satisfaction guarantee."

and if they won't give you your money back .... well I for one know you were certainly not satisfied.

Good luck!

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I havn't had a problem with Limewire
i have been using it for around 2 years now and have found it very reliable

You did not subscribe to a legitimate LimeWire Pro version if you paid £20, because you paid too much for it. The effective prive is only US$18.88, i.e. about £10.68 (with the current rate of 1.7686 USD for 1 British Pound), half the price you paid.

Even with international transaction fees for your credit card, this should not have reached as much as nearly £10.

Most probably you've been scamed, and you have downloaded an incorrect version of LimeWire, possibly hacked with plenty of additional spywares. I recommand you uninstall it, check your system against a good antispyware and an antivirus, then download and install the free Limewire program from the official www.limewire.com web site.

The normal procedure is first to try Limewire Basic for free, and if you like it, you can buy Limewire Pro at $18.88. If you did not use the Limewire.com website to buy your version, there's nothing that LimeWire can do to help you recover your money from the scammer. In that case, you've been stolen...

I still can't understand how users think they will get better programs by paying for a more expensive program that evidently has no recognized support, no user community itself, no recommandation from any other online software review website, simply by following any kind of link they find through random websites found in advertizing banners or in poor web search engines.

Isn't there enough links in Google and major download sites that speak about the official LimeWire or its active communities like this forum?

Don't blame Limewire if you use a version that you have downloaded from an untrusted source.

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If you still think LimeWire is CRAP! then try Phex or FrostWire. they are also free.

Frostwire is exactly LimeWire with just the name changed, but its copyright changed as well, and all credits to LimeWire removed (illegally according to the open-source GPL licence)

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yea i know it a clone but did thte soruce code changed? i mean in FrostWire, it could work differently than LimeWire but the same way

Its getting a tad bit silly. I dont understand why people just dont go to:www.limewire.com and order the Pro for 18.88. I cant imagine that people are so easily scammed by this? I dont get it. I really dont. Its amazing me and scaring me at the sametime. You dont even need to pay for anything, P2P is free and always has been. You dont need to pay a single dime for it. Ive used it for years and have never paid a single penny for any pro. Basic works just the same way as pro, you get connected to the gnutella network, not limewire network. Its the same files no matter what app you use and paying for a pro version does not make downloading legal. Its still illigal to download copyrighted material, no matter what program you use.