It is obvious Limewire is used by sick people to do sick things. Without making an effort, using a default search filter in Limewire (Videos > Adult) you can quickly be exposed to child pornography.

Drilling into some of the keywords used in this listings, you are presented with a smorgas board of illegal material to choose from.

The question is, how do we stop it?

It could be argued that Limewire, as the service provider, should protect its users and do their best to stop it. I am not sure of Limewires official position on this, but I have yet to receive a reply to the many complaints I have made.

Free speech is one thing, but the abuse of innocent children is another.

Limewire should make available an easy way to report these individuals. They should allow a user to report an IP address or details of an offender. A simply method would be to include a "Report content" button, at which the Limewire server received a report of an IP address with the file name offered for download at the time and date it was reported. The system could instantly send a message to the IP address (if valid) and inform the user they have been reported for potentially offering illegal material. Limewire can make their decision after reviewing the content if they need to report it to the authorities.

Any sane person would have to agree something has to be done. The above may not be an appropriate or technically possible solution, but as users of Limewire we should continue to pressure Limewire to act upon this.

I'd hate to see the FBI or other agencies shut down Limewire because of incidents like this. No one wants that, but eventually I think it will happen.

Limewire - If you are reading what can you do?


Regards,
A concerned user.

so w00ts yur real agenda here d00d?

LW is NOT a service provider....

and what/where are these supposed 'many complaints' you have made...

you sure the heat down there in Canberra ain't frying yur brain and you are mistaking this board for another?

If your looking up porn on LW, you must need some help with the ladies...

So far I have done a few porn searches for specific movie titles, I've tried different keywords; filtering; advanced search techniques & I RARELY get anything that is remotely similar or relative to my queries. Most results that are titled correctly have a 98 % percent chance of NOT being what it says it is.

This is not that surprising considering internet adult contents current state of disaster. Intentionally searching for adult material is like a pc death wish & sadly the slightest typing error, 'miss-click' or deceitful redirection can land you into the wonderful world of MALWARE attacks.

I believe that the current increasing pc malware molestations (usually associated w/ porn sites) have already started to, & will continue to, expand into the internet mainstream.

So pay no attention to the ridicule & continue down the 'dark alley' & enjoy any valid "adult educational material" you can...And when the malware attacks are devastating the internet community, people will wonder how you became such an expert at removing and preventing such attacks...as they pay you top dollar for your expertise.
Good Luck

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new user here:

I have been downloading music and recently opened Widows Media and found child porn. I dont recongnize the player icon, it looks like a gold piece of paper........I can't delete it and I can't exclude it and more likely than not is being shared right now. How do I remove files that do not respond to the delete command......and may have the error: unable to delete, file is being used by another program.

Thankyou.

Neon

Have a look through the thread below for some advice
Incomplete download file won't delete at all

I've used both DelinvFile & Unlocker & they've worked well

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Hello,

I fully agree with you that this is something that needs to be addressed. I have contacted my local police office whenever I received spam e-mails that contained lewd photographs of minors, or links to websites that may contain the same.

Many law enforcement branches either have officers that work on various forms of Internet-based crime, or they may have a s3x-crimes unit that would investigate Internet-based s3x crimes. If they don't have either at their detachment, then they would likely forward such complaints to provincial/state or federal authorities.

Just like with any type of crime, your best measure is contacting local law enforcement and leave it in their hands to investigate these kinds of crimes.

On another front, I'm not so sure that the P2P provider should be held responsible. However if they knowingly allow child pornography to be shared, then they should be responsible for contacting their local authorities to report such matters.

I do not believe that P2P providers should instantly ban or discipline users. We are all innocent until proven guilty, and in some of the spam cases that I have reported, the authorities found that the "teeny-boppers" were actually deemed to be over 18, despite looking many years younger in some cases.

Take care...

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'legally' speaking p2p networks cannot do anything directly against sharers of such files..if they could, the network by definition would be illegal...the gnutella network is totally decentralized, and as such is legal...to be able to in any way control the network would be a sign of 'centralization' and said network and/or clients would be deemed illegal...

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Hello

I am quite new to Limewire, but I agree that this tpic should be handled with more thought. Who knows who is using Limewire. For example, a 7-year old could be trying to find a movie or a Ttelevision show that they wanted to watch and they find some movie that someone made that they shouldn't see, but they begin to wonder what it could be and when they start to watch it's too late. What I really hate though is downloading a Television show or a movie that I have just sent the last hour or 2 trying to found and it turns out to be a prono movie that someone made that is titled with the same name as the television show or the movie that I just sent the last hour or 2 trying to find and after I just sent some time downloading it I find out that it's not the thing that I wanted. At that moment I have to delete what I just downloaded and begin my search again.

I only had to search the word "dark" under image files on Limewire, and a couple of child pornography images (or what i assume is that, as the descriptions reads) came up under my search results. Is there some way to stop this? Some way of reporting these people? U can get their IP address cant you? Isnt that a way they can be tracked down?

Hmm, from the sound of this topic, it seems we do have an ever-increasing problem with porn, but like people have said there's not much LW can do about it. It would be nice if we didn't have sickos providing such crap on LW, but as a LW user, all I can do is steer clear of it as best I can. That's about all any of us can do, as LW users.

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that's not exactly true...

you can report such ppl who are sharing the stuff...either choose to block the host, or browse the host...both actions will show the IP address of the user..and then you can report it here: http://www.missingkids.com/missingki..._US&PageId=169

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Ok, my bad. I thought there wasn't anything any of us could do, but it turns out we can do something.

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Could one of these ppl report us for downloading or sharing music we haven't bought isn't that illegal too.

jeez..that's rather a totally different type if illegal, don't you think?

it the RIAA and MPAA spent as much effort tracking down sharers of CP as they do media files, there probably wouldn't be any on the network..