LimeWire on PSP?

[wiitendo]

Wouldn't it be great, if someone could port LimeWire on the PSP?

All is would use is an internet connection, and you can download, and pick the locations of where your downloads go!

I don't know if this is portable...because we don't have the source, so it'll have to be remade?

Would this be hard?

[ICE]

yeah no source no port. i clone might be possible though.

[Cap'n 1time]

frostwire is an open source clone of limewire (in fact, its better). I dont understand the point of P2P DL applications on the PSP though...

Here is a link to frostwire if anyone is interested.
http://www.frostwire.com/

[ICE]

i dont much get it myself either but to each his own eh?

[woods05]

---Limewire bashing post starts here---

-I say that downloading songs on limewire for free instead of buying them is disrespectful to the artist, regardless of whether or not it is legal.
-Sounds like a new way for viruses on a PSP

---Limewire bashing post ends here---

[Cloudhunter]

Actually, if it is legal then it isn't disrespecting the artist as they allowed it...

Cloudy

[Wally]

Limewire would be useful for downloading music and stuff..

But wouldnt you rather an XMB portal that you can check and download new homebrew through?

Not a website but an actual eboot with update systems etc

[F9zDark]

---Limewire bashing post starts here---

-I say that downloading songs on limewire for free instead of buying them is disrespectful to the artist, regardless of whether or not it is legal.
-Sounds like a new way for viruses on a PSP

---Limewire bashing post ends here---

Some bands don't care if you download their songs since they don't make jack shit on CD sales. Concerts is where the money is at for the bands and I think many of them would rather you download their songs and attend their concerts, than buy their CDs and never goto their concerts...

When last I checked, the RIAA made 99% of the money on CD sales, with the band seeing about 1%... Its no wonder that music-downloading suits are never initiated by individual bands...

[TeenDev]

Limewire is BAD!!

[Tree]

i gotta say limewire is realy bad it can **** up computers like you dont no ... i perfer the good old days with the best P2P ... WINMX

[yaustar]

Limewire is open source as shown here:
http://www.limewire.org/

[TeenDev]

my problem with limewire is that it always shows results for nasty videos. I searched 'Public Domain ROMs' and it game up with pr0n videos....

[Cloudhunter]

That's due to the other peers... But it's so easy to just add it to the file filter so it isn't picked up...

Cloudy

[Physicist]

is there now something for psp that can extract .zip and .rar files?
who's gonna upload something uncompressed...

(I'v not been keeping up with PSP stuff lately, only just got OE fw)

[Wally]

iRshell does all that :)

[devdj]

if there ever will be limewire on psp it will not work if you have clearwire broadband cause clearwire block peer to peer and they are a shit American company.

[archangel1024]

If someone did port Limewire, or frostwire or w/e, It would hammer the memory card on the read-write process, as a P2P Writes from a server to the memory card and then compiles the file from fragments, deleting all the files, a 5mb file (roughly a song) can be recieved in any number of parts, ranging (rought estimate) form 10-40 files, which are compiled and the tmp files deleted. it would destroy the memory card with any file over 50 mb. Like 5 decent downloads, and the memory card would be shot.
It's a cool idea in theory, but pulling it off without destroying the memory card would be an amazing feat.

[mnuhaily22]

my problem with limewire is that it always shows results for nasty videos. I searched 'Public Domain ROMs' and it game up with pr0n videos....
That is also one of the things I hate, but like Cloudy said, a filter should solve the problem...

[Triv1um]

The risk of virus's would increase if this ever did happen i think.

Its only about time before it starts.

[pibs]

Doesn't Limewire run with Javascript though so how would that work?

and viruses on psp, I doubt that, the only thing would be fake eboots leading to bricks but then again just make it for music, pics, vids and remove the app section.

[IndianCheese]

It doesn't have to be LimeWire...any made-for-PSP Gnutella client would be awesome.

[Camelot]

Download speed would be to slow in my opinion

[Bruce.Lee]

I think this would be almost impossible, just considering the hardware aspect of the PSP. Just look at the internet browser, its an officially made feature by Sony and its still quite slow. So if the PSP cant handle an internet browser, I doubt it could handle anything like limewire.

Nice idea though, maybe when the PSP2 comes around.

[PLZKLLME0080]

Limewire really slows your connection down, playing an online game with it running creats a crapload of lag for you. i dont know how well it would run on a PSP.

[Cloudhunter]

It would be possible to get a decent speed out of it... After all, it will only be downloading, and not displaying much.

Cloudy

[F9zDark]

The problem is most assuredly a hardware one. The PSP's wifi antenna is shitty as hell. Even at 100% signal the connection is still too noisy and is prone to drops and disconnects because of the crappy construction.

One person upgraded his antenna real early in the PSP's life and put a tutorial online somewhere. Before even imagining about getting LimeWire on PSP, one would need to upgrade the PSP's antenna.

Downloading huge files would take days because the PSP would constantly lose connection.

[awasupra224]

wut no one seems to realize is that if someone with limewire made a rss feed everyone with a psp would be able to download from that all you would have to do is email requests and wait for them to be posted

[awasupra224]

and just to let all of you kno theres nuttn wrong wit the antenna, you have to kno how to use it

[Buddy4point0]

this would be awsome! i use limewire all the time

[SpooForBrains]

Limewire is written in Java, and there's only a very basic Java virtual machine for the PSP at the moment, so a Limewire port would be pretty much impossible as it stands at the moment.

[parkermauney]

Limewire is indeed open source: http://www.limewire.org/

but requires jre, which is not

[godofwar77]

LimeWire is the sickest file sharing program on the planet, only very few viruses live in limewire anyway.

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[baracki96]

Pirates, Pirates! I'm telling the captain!! No, in all seriousness though it would be a good port, for those rare events when you're without a pc/laptop but have a psp and want to hear some music. ........200th post

[steve520]

yeah limewire would be cool but its so slow on my computer and i think it would be extremely slow to download things..................... the first time i got my PSP and i was at 2.71 I downloaded limewire of the webrowser and thought it would work until I learned more about the PSP

[parkermauney]

Are you retarded!? It requires jre, which is not open source!

[Billdough]

Is there any other ports of any other P2P software?
I figure I would save space and not make a new thred for this. And I don't understand why flame people for using P2P. I use it to find rare stuff that I cannot find anywhere else. If you don't like P2P, then don't use it!! thnkx.

[Tesseract]

But wouldnt you rather an XMB portal that you can check and download new homebrew through?

Not a website but an actual eboot with update systems etc

Perhaps there could be an RSS feed JUST for DCEmu - PSP Homebrew downloads, now that non-vodcast/podcast RSS feeds are usable with 3.50?

[parkermauney]

Installatron is a portal for downloading new homebrew. It's not OE compatible though, and I don't think it's been updated for a while.

[jaron]

Limewire is da best!!
i got 7 viruses from limewire when i waz a noob, but just pick the file that the most people downloaded.

NO VIRUSES:)

[NoQuarter]

limewire sucks, use torrents!
P2P doesn't mean necessarily piracy,I use it for linux iso's
ctorrent for psp is pretty good.Sometimes in a pinch my psp is my computer :)
I am one of those people who upgraded my psp antenna,BIG DIFFERENCE, I have a cantenna I can attach.
Macspoofer + cantenna + irkeyboard = sweet psp ;)

P.S.
I caught a few viruses from limewire when I used windoze.
now I'm a little more discerning about what I download,compiling from source is generally safer because more eyes have been on the code.
That doesn't apply to media files though...
1959'th post,lol..
just kidding.

[acer5050]

Honestly people get the impression that if you have a torrent client all you do is pirate. Dumbasses. The original use for torrents was to create a faster network for downloading large files, helping keep the person hosting it from taking the full bandwidth. Distributing it among the other downloaders.

People need to stop this stupid crap.

btw

I'd love limewire on the psp :)