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Lime Wire Wr(ule)apped (i.imgur.com)
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[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

LimeWire was based on Gnutella protocol, which was actually the first major P2P file sharing protocol. The file discovery was completely decentralised. But yes, way simpler and less robust than BitTorrent.