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LİMEWİRE İntroduction Buissness Model Features and Design Users and Usage İntroduction İn the world there are lots of P2P programmes. Our group represent one of this programme. İt is Limewire. Limewire is the one of the most popular P2P programme. The Limewire was launched in June 2000. LimeWire uses the Gnutella network and also the BitTorrent protocol Gnutella was the first decentralized file sharing network BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files Buissness Model Limewire’s creator is Mark Gorton. He create Limewire to develop technologies, to develop and profit from informations of worldwide peer to peer network access internet. Limewire is a product of Lime group so Lime group give financial supports to Lİmewire. Limewire has a lot of rivals. Some of them are Kaza, Edonkey, Ares, BitTorrent etc… Limewire focus developping advance file sharing client/server software which connect computing devices over public or private networks.Limewire create Limeware store and Limespot. İn Limewire, users can buy low-cost mp3 and in Limespot ,you could chat with friends or meet with new users, also you can create a new profile and blog .Limewire try to develop this features.If Limewire store can be succesful, they put lots of money into the hands of cpoyright owners.Also Mark Gorton ans his team try to make a new version (5.4).With this version, They add new features like media player. The important questions is how does limewire make Money? Limewire only earn Money from pro-users and Limewire store. Buissness Model Limewire becomes so popular because limewire has different features from other p2p programs.Limewire has java support, ultrapeers and firewall to firewall transfers. 1)Limewire was constructed with java technology. Java is software environment which allows the same application to run different operating systems including wimdows, Linux, Mac. 2)Limewire was first p2p client to provide ultrapeer support on the Gnutella network. Ultrapeers are Limewire and Gnutella network clients running on computers with the best performance. It means that ultrapeers client can get beter results and download faster. 3)Network firewalls can block p2p applications from connecting to each other and users can configure their firewalls to avois the problem.Like users , limewire try to simplify the process of connceting through firewalls whenever possible.Limewire Works with some but not all types of firewalls. Features and Design The key features of the original limewire concept are search , library and monitor tabs and media player.The Search tab is the most essential to the program and allows users to locate Audio, Images, Video, Documents. They can choose the search criteria that would like and then enter the search in the box below .İn new version tthere are limewire store and limespot. Limewire add limewire store to stop illegal downloading. Limewire put low-cost mp3.Limespot make you chat with your friends and also you can meet with new users too.With new version (5.4) limewire add media player and it develop network connectivity. Users can download and watch videos all in one place with the built-in video player. Features and Design Limewire create a changelog page so you can follows changes and you can see which day they make these changes. Limewire has a forum site. In this site users can write their features requests. They can write their ideas, tips and tracks too. Also you can see the planning and ideas of limewire. And you can make creative discussion about these plannings and ideas. Is Limewire safe? The other important question is that İs limewire safe?. Limewire take a precaution to make limewire safe.Limewire puts a fitler. This fitler is about shared folder, spyware and virus, shutdown and start up and adult content. 1)With share folder options, you can control folders and files which are shared with other users of Gnutella network. 2)Limewire says that spyware and virus doesn’t come with Limewire but Limewire warn against downloading files with exe., com, sys, vbs because these files could contain virus or spyware. In the content fitler ,you can check a box to remove all such files form your search results. 3) Limewire warn that if users don’t download anything, they have to shut dowm Limewire . Users can choose shutdown adn start up options so Limewire will shut up and start up automatically. 4) Limewire has adult conter fitler too so family can control what do their childrens download. Is Limewire legal? Limewire basic and Limewire pro are free legals sofwares but it is possible to use it in illegal ways. It is illegal to use limewire to share, download copyrighted files without permission. Limewire program is distrubeted and licenced for use only in authorized and law manner and not share files which copyright owner hasn not permitted to be shared. Also buying Limewire pro or downloading limewire from official site don’t give users any right to download unauthorized or unlawful files. when you accept the agreement to download limewire, you also accept that you don’t use limewire to download unauthorized or unlawful materials so Limewire doesn’ be responsible of your downloading illegal files Disadvantages of limewire 1) The first disadvantages is about p2p programme.The files are being shared to computer from another computer so viruses or other harmful software are being spread around .Your computer become open for attacks. 2)Limewire can enable others to Access to important data so users which have the softare installed can search other user’s hard drives on the network and they can download what they want. 3)Some use limewire for thieft.They use limewire to access sensitive company informations. 4)Some users complain that Limewire has slow downloading and materials sometimes fail when you try to download it. Advantages of limewire 1)It clearly states whether is a mp3 or mp4 so you can see what you are downloading. You don’t need Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox to download a file. There are lots of internet scansi tricks out there. This programme isn’t one of them. 2)Some users complain about the prce of Cds so they prefere to download music free with using limewire. 3)Some users limewire because is the fasttest p2p file sharing application and also it is so easy to use limewire. 4)Some users use limewire because .Limewire is a p2p programme so lots of users means lots of sources. Because of it Limewires has lots of sources. You can find lots of search results. User and Usage 1 million people use Limewire in one day and 20 million people use Limewire in one month.Users can download musics, videos, images, documents and programmes. People download music most. Limewire basic is free so you can download Limewire free. Users have to pay a little money to get Limewire pro. There are lots of differences between Limewire basic and Limewire pro. If you download limewire basic, you can access Bittorrent and Gnutella. You can share files with your friends and also you can share files with your private sharing groups too. When you become a pro user, first you can have all features of limewires basic, also you have 66% more ultra peer connections and turbo charged downloads. You can get beter search results, You can conncet more sources.Limewire gives you technicak support. Limewire make updates itself.If you want to become a pro user for six months. You have to pay 5.99 dollar.If you want to become a pro user for 1 year, you have to pay 8.99 dollar.so . .Now we going to talk about policy of Limewire .There is no refund policy for pro users .Lİmewire says that Lİmewire basic is free and Limewire make it free for trials.When you pay Money to become pro –users , you can’t take your Money back.Limewire has privacy policy too.Limewire takes informations about their user .They take them to develop itself and see some results. User and Usage Limewire has privacy policy too.Limewire takes informations about their user .They take them to develop itself and see some results. User Information helps limewire personalize and continually improve user experience. Depending on how user use the Lime Wire Website, the Program or other Lime Wire products and services, Limewire may collect the following User Information from you their users. a)when you become a pro –user or buy a mp3 from limewire store .Limewire takes some informations about their users like their names, their e-mail address or phone number… They use it for demopgrahipcs of limewire. b)When you use limewire, Limewire take all informations about your uploads , your downloads, what do you seach , what do you buy mp3 from limewire store etc.. c)Like lots of websites, Limewire use cookies. They have to use cookies to watch your surfing habits and activities outside of their websites. d)When you seach a word or phrase or listen something,it is possible for your search(words or phrase) be viewed or listened to by other users accessing the P2P Networkalso Limewire can see or listen it too. e) The private information like your name, your address , your e-mail etc.. is called third part info .You shouldn’t give your private informations in a chat or an online message board if you do this. Limewire doesn’t be responsible about it