You know how the old saying goes–you can’t keep a good file sharing service down. Surely no one really expected LimeWire to stay dead for too long after an on-going battle with the RIAA finally led to the service’s shutdown, late last month.
Since then, we’ve seen plenty of smaller services attempt to step into the void, in order to take up the file sharing mantle, and now it seems that the service itself is set to be reborn, thanks to “a horde of piratical monkeys.”
TorrentFreak has the story, courtesy of “a source” with the apparent knowledge of “a secret dev team” tasked with resurrecting the service,
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,” a source told TorrentFreak.
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.
The result is LimeWire Pirate Edition, which was born on the back of a beta of LimeWire 5.6. The version, according to the site is an improvement “in many ways,” including the disabling of remote settings, the removal of an Ask toolbar, and the freeing of LimeWire Pro.
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