 R2R NotPremium,MVM
join:2000-09-18
Long Beach, CA
kudos:1 | LimeWirePirate and Promies Promises Not that I would ever use LimeWirePirate, because that would likely be illegal. But this friend of mine was trying to download "Promises Promises" by Incubus and there is a very strange phenomenon that occurs when he tries to "borrow" that file. He gets a bunch hits from something called "Magic Mushroom" - and they are all crap. It is like there is a concerted effort by this Mushroom guy to block anyone from borrowing this song. This only happens rarely when he, my friend, tries to download songs -- but this is clearly one of those songs that someone does NOT want you to get. The song is certainly special, but there seems to be an extra special-ness associated with this song.
Can anyone enlighten him on WHY this is happening and how he gets around that? He cannot find away to block all "Mushroom" hits -- and that would possibly work.
Thanks. |
 Doctor FourMy other vehicle is a TARDISPremium
join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX | Sounds like that version of LimeWire needs better spam filtering. Spam like this is rampant on one of the networks (Gnutella) it uses, and spammers will even hit on searches for files that have complete gibberish as their names.
I used to do this with Shareaza, and any IP addresses that responded to such gibberish searches were guaranteed to be from spammers, and I would then block them in Shareaza's security manager.
I'm not sure if Limewire Pirate Edition has something similar. Maybe he should check elsewhere, such as Usenet. I would also suggest Amazon MP3. I've often found music there I was looking for that I could not find on Usenet or torrents.
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