Gnutella Forums - View Single Post - shocked to see child porn titles appearing

murasame · #2 (**permalink**) September 30th, 2004

Well, first, the LW users are not Members, meaning that they do not pay to access the Gnutella net.
Second, Limewire has no control over what files are being shared by any given user. Normally, this is a good thing since everyone wants their privacy. Buuut, unfortunately there are people who take advantage of this situation to do many many things, one of these being what you mentioned.

Also, consider that some users serve files with fake names, so some of these offending titles might not be what they claim to be (double-edged knife, since you might stumble in a porn file while trying to dld a movie...)

What can we do?

Hmm, as a user, the thing that I can do is, whenever I find a user that serves fake files and/or file that I find offending, I block them.

Also, when searching, you can choose to not display adult-oriented files.