Less than a month after its "permanent shut down," LimeWire has been resurrected by an anonymous dev team--and it's better and more powerful than before. Or, well, something like that.
According to the site TorrentFreak, a "secret dev team" stayed loyal to the Gnutella-based file-sharing client, even after its creators closed their doors indefinitely, thanks to that pesky little thing known as copyright law.
An anonymous source gave TorrentFreak the following quote:
"On October 26 the remaining LimeWire developers were forced to shut down the company's servers and modify remote settings in the filesharing client to try to harm the Gnutella network. They were then laid off.
"Shortly after, a horde of piratical monkeys climbed aboard the abandoned ship, mended its sails, polished its cannons, and released it free to the community."
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/210092/
According to the site TorrentFreak, a "secret dev team" stayed loyal to the Gnutella-based file-sharing client, even after its creators closed their doors indefinitely, thanks to that pesky little thing known as copyright law.
An anonymous source gave TorrentFreak the following quote:
"On October 26 the remaining LimeWire developers were forced to shut down the company's servers and modify remote settings in the filesharing client to try to harm the Gnutella network. They were then laid off.
"Shortly after, a horde of piratical monkeys climbed aboard the abandoned ship, mended its sails, polished its cannons, and released it free to the community."
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/210092/