Looks like the money grabbing nazis have stuck their boots in to stop the use of LW or limit its use.

Therefore I strongly recommend you ignore their update suggestions & stay with the version of LW you have. LW 4 does not have force update options, neither does LW 5.5.10 or earlier.

Forced Update & Legal Notice Sample Image.

(The weblink that message came from has since been closed down so instead you may receive an error message 'You are offline', but ignore this as shown here.)

Recommended is WireShare. WireShare 5.6.3 released March 2014 is an upgrade from LimeWire Pirate Edition 5.6.2 of late 2010. WireShare has an inclusive installer for connection file & hostiles. WireShare includes several improvements which fix the Java 7 issue, no deletion of the connection file, & some other bug fixes & improvements.

You can still use LW 5 if you downgrade back to LW 5.5.10. Basic instructions are here: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/359411-post2.html

Installers are found here: LW installers for Windows _ and _ LW installers for Mac OSX _ and _ Linux LW installers.

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If you are presently a Pro user, then your activation will hopefully be automatically recognised. Else the program is used in Basic mode. It is not possible to activate new Pro users even with the Pro key code.

There is also the LimeWire Pirate version which is based on LW Basic but gives as good as LW Pro. No legal notice on startup. WireShare 5.6.3 can be found in same download locations as LPE.

LimeWire Changelog

* Note: LW 5 will not connect without a fresh Gnutella.net file so follow those instructions. File_Girl71 has produced a special very quick runnning program to do it all in a matter of half a second for Mac & Windows. Linux might be soon to come for the quick fix.

To stop the Legal notice on start window, simply click My Files / Library tab or do a search & it will vanish. For LW 4, simply click on the white area or do a search.

For those of you downgrading from LW 5.5.11 or later on OSX, you may receive an error message during installation. In that case, remove the install limewire.pkg file from Receipts folder; Receipts folder sample image & instructions


Do not disable file-sharing, do not 'freeload', if nobody were sharing files, you know of course there would be no files to download. If you are a part of the file-sharing community, then share your part and be a respected member of the file-sharing community. Do you never return what you borrow from your friends? Do you never return your partner's kisses and attention? File-sharing can even be a passion!
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