There are lots of organisations that would love to see the end of p2p (the RIAA for one!). These fakes are planted in the hope that it will discourage people from using apps like LimeWire! Check out LOTR's post here, he gives a few more links to have a look at
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showpo...5&postcount=10

Don't believe that such groups are closing down. It's propaganda. Perhaps specific ones have but new ones will have been contracted to do the job. Overpeers (click on link) & a couple of others: 1. MediaSentry & this one 2. Mediadefender

I don't doubt that mate, all I'm interested in really is trying to find out why the songs I uploaded are not in the list when I do a normal search.

You would think that Limewire would digitally list all the succesfully uploaded files so that other people could queue them in their request list to be downloaded so that when the original person comes online it will start to download, or the person/persons it uploaded to from the original person it could start to download then also.

Isn't that basically how this Limewire works? Or am I wrong?

There's no request list or list of files being shared. It's only after people come online that their files appear in anyone's search.

Ok thanks for that mate.

So now that I'm armed with that information at least I can move onto my next question.

Why is it then that I now have uploaded loads of different songs all from different artists but I never ever see them in the normal search list even though I know a few of the people that uploaded from me are online cause Iv'e been chatting to them through Limewire itself?

It would greatly encourage me to share more songs as I have lots of rare stuff for die hard fans of that artist or whatever if I could see the ones I uploaded somewhere.

Do you see what I mean?

I can't completely answer your question, but when you do a search you don't connect to every computer on the network. Your searches only go so far. Chances are that your not connecting to anyone that has uploaded your files.

Every time you startup LW you connect to different peers and ultrapeers. So potentially you can find different files than the last time you were connected.

There are millions of people using Gnutella clients and billions of files being shared. So it can be like finding a needle in a haystack.

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You could try a What's New search As far as your issues goes I guess that's one of the ideosynchrasies of the network.

Yeah that would be just my luck

Thanx again

Renegade, recording labels do this to stop online piracy activity, they do this by creating bogus songs, to do this they can use a few applications which most artists are familiar with Acid Pro, Wavelab or Cakewalk etc etc. And of course they would move the loop marker in the application from anywhere between 4 - 20 minutes to make it legit (3 - 4 MB), and render the file as an .mp3. Once this is created, and renamed to artist - song title.mp3 they upload it to a server, and with limewire and a few plug-ins create it as a limewire supernode, where people can access the file. Of course, mainly with upcoming songs, older songs they really don't bother with it. The recording company with approval of the artist, will have discussions on what to do when the release is meant for cd, such as "copy protection".

Ok, copy protected cd's are considered by majority of people (unrippable) because WMP doesn't detect the cd. However, they can be ripped into .mp3, .m4a formats. I won't go into detail how to do this, because it is a federal offence with copyright. But it can be done!

The RIAA, ARIA, AMCOS and other federal agencies world wide don't host songs, they just scan the programs to find large pirating organisations, these people organisations download full albums, singles and resell them at a cheaper price (illegally). They also can download and sell movies, games, and software including banned movie and games, such as the movie Ken Park and the game Manhunt for PC.

So would it be possible to find those plug ins so the likes of me and you could upload normal audio files which we might like to share with the world such as rare songs or maybe a track from a band your in or whatever onto Limewire?