the only songs that seem to be corrupt are the ' T3 or higher' speed songs..does someone who does not want us downloading these songs go in and corrupt them??

Most likely the RIAA or music industry are trying to kill people's enthusiasm for downlding the most popular music by offering corrupt versions from those T3 sources.

See this about file size v's bit-rate: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=28801

More Corruption
 

I've been trying for about a week now to download two files (primarily): mp3s of [Edit] and [Edit], and *every* copy I try and download, no matter the size, the bitrate, the number of people sharing the file, every last one of them arrives and I get the "file corrupt" message.

What I'm really angry about is that I upgraded from to Limewire Pro specifically because I couldn't get any kind of customer support as a regular old user... so I shelled out the extra money to access customer support and fired off an e-mail asking if this was a widespread problem because it seemed to crop up overnight for me.

Well, it says "we'll get back to you shortly" and that was 6 hrs ago, and now apparently I have my answer from checking these forums. What I'd like to know is how do I get my freakin' money back, because I *thought* I was paying for 6 months of the "high quality" service (actually I thought it was a one-time fee good until the collapse of the internet or the file sharing network, whichever came first), and it's been about 2 1/2 weeks and it's starting to look like this program's gone lame on me and I can't download anything that'll play.

Whoever's running the thing, hello??? Repair or refund, your customers are entitled to one or the other, I think!

ILLEGAL ACTIVITY
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Edited to comply with the House Rules.
Warez, copyright violation, or any other illegal activity may NOT be linked or expressed in any form.

No need to mention the specific details of any files unless you may possibly have a warning about 'dangerous' files such as Dialers or whatever...

The Forum Rules are prominently posted as Announcements in every forum here.


As far as your problems are concerned, please have a good search around these forums as there are many, many posts referring to the problems that others have experienced with the latest LimeWire upgrades/installs...

I am sure you will find the solutions you need... ;)

i have some corrupt files but it is impossible to delete them...
there is no delete button when i right click and if i try to manually drag them to trash can they dont move, help plz

wait... all the T3 or higher files are corrupt???

Disturbs me how little input LW themselves are putting into the issue of filtering and/or stopping these files from coming through. Even if it is the RIAA or the IRS or the Swedish Mafia or who the heck ever, the Limewire server isn't run by babies. Whichever way you look at it, it doesn't seem like the people who collect the $$$ are putting much effort into this at all.
Granted, I have seen a big improvement in my search quality by trying out some of the suggestions made by some of you guys. But that's not the point. The moderators here are so used to washing their hands of problems and practicing blind faith in their beloved little program, they're now doing it without thinking.
Come on Limewire, you're wasting our f****** time.

These corrupt files only appear with songs that have only just been released ie. a couple months ago I couldn't get any of Simple Plan & stuff – Meaning, that if you wait a while, the industry is going to get the Cd sales it wants and move on to some other, more current title

Just a thought

hmmmm ... The only problem now is with ppl who leave the corrupt files in their sharing folders

oops
 

Sry – Should've read the rules BEFORE the post

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The only problem now is with ppl who leave the corrupt files in their sharing folders

Good point!

Yes it does seem to be with the most recently released songs. Just where possible be a little wary of T3 sources. Not all T3 sources are bad but make a note of the File Size Versus Bit-Rate can often identify those corrupt ones.