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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I see what you mean mate, there was this one time that when I was chatting to someone in Italy that I uploaded a file to and I done a browse host search and it was in their list, but straight away I done a search for it in the normal audio search and it wasen't there even though we were still chatting so its things like that which I find confusing.

But thanks so much for all your help everyone so far, if you can think of anything please let me know