I found that if Limewire is downloaded from the official, or at least a reputable site (say, Download.com) there is no seedy "push the fart button" type web environment.Nor pop-ups, nor rude pics.Nada.
Seediness may exist - and often seems to - when doing a video search; rarely with an audio search.
As ChocksAway points out, download speed is limited by other users upload speed, but also by the configuration of the program (good forum info available for this) and the number of online users hosting the particular file.
Worst download speed IO've had <1kb. (1 host, modem, across the universe.) Best, 117kb (multiple users, t3).
I would have to be mighty desperate or masochistically curious about my AV's capability to download any .exe or .rar etc file using this. Heard about quite a few nasties. Spyware, viruses, etc.
Edit Just searched for French Connection, out of curiosity. Within 1min the film was located. (117Mb,avi.) It was no. 15 of the available titles; the other 14 were all porn.
Last edited by Tarq57; 4th Oct 2006 at 12:28.
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