More than one-third of all PCs worldwide now have LimeWire installed, according to data jointly released by Digital Music News and media tracking specialist BigChampagne.The discovery is part of a steady ascent for LimeWire, easily the front-running P2P application and the target of a multi-year Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) lawsuit. For the third quarter of this year, LimeWire was found on 36.4% of all PCs, a figure gleaned from a global canvass of roughly 1.66 million desktops. The installation share is impressive, and unrivaled. But growth has actually been modest over the past year. LimeWire enjoyed a penetration level of 34.1% at the same point last year, a difference of merely 2.3%. "LimeWire continues to be the iTunes of P2P by a wide margin ... but growth has remained flat over the last several months," said Richard Menta, research analyst at Digital Music News. The report closely follows a legal defeat for LimeWire owner Lime Group LLC, which alleged anticompetitive, collusive behavior amongst major labels. But that challenge was thrown out by a federal court, shifting the attention back towards a massive infringement suit being spearheaded by the RIAA. For consumers, the legal volleys are mostly background noise, and more users than ever are relying on the application to acquire freebie downloads. PC Pitstop collected the data required for this report though voluntary systems scans. Looking for more stuff to watch or download?
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I mean really, I call massive, collossal bullshit on this story. If it was 33% of American computers I wouldnt believe it, but that would be much more plausible. But absolutely no way do the billions of computers in Asia have this software installed. Or all the hundreds of millions of middle aged and elderly people who dont use any peer to peer software. It's just so beyond ridiclous to make this claim that I cant believe it was even posted here. I've been coming to Zeropaid since that pedophile wall of shame thing, and this is the most absurd article Ive ever read here.
I mean really, the Founding Fathers believed in free speech and all that, but they certainly would not support wholesale lies being published. What would Thomas Jefferson say about this completely outrageous Limewire claim?
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Limewire is almost on every PC I know.
You'd be surprised how many people are still new to P2P and use the Limewire/Direct Connect garbage.
sure that 1/3 use this but im also sure that that 1/3 doesnt know about private trackers :P