LimeWire

LimeWire was a peer-to-peer file-sharing program that let users exchange music and other files directly with one another.

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LimeWire was a peer-to-peer file-sharing program released in 2000 by the US company Lime Wire LLC. It used the Gnutella network to let users' computers exchange music and other files directly.

Distribution of the program stopped in 2010 under a US court order.

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