Article by George Norman

On 15 Sep 2009

Facebook, 250 million accounts strong social networking site that we all know and love, has once demonstrated its lack of support for P2P file sharing. I say once again because earlier this year The Pirate Bay (TPB)added the option to share torrents via Facebook – but the team behind the social networking site quickly responded by blocking this functionality citing the fact that they don’t want to get near anything that may be marginally related to copyright infringement.

The Pirate Bay episode is now reoccurring, just that instead of TPB this time Facebook is taking on LimeWire. With a market share of about 35%, the chances of you not being familiar with LimeWire are pretty slim. Still, here is a short presentation of that LimeWire is and what it does.


LimeWire is a P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing client, which will work on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and will allow you to download files off the Gnutella file sharing network as well as off BitTorrent sites. There are threee different versions - LimeWire Basic, LimeWire Pro and LimeWire Extended Pro – only the basic version comes free of charge.

Getting back to the Facebook vs. LimeWire topic of this article, the latter recently added an option to share files with Facebook contacts. This new option received great reviews from the users; not so great from Facebook. According to Vice President of Product Management with LimeWire, Jason Herskowit, Facebook initially demanded the option be modified. LimeWire made the required modifications, but this did not please Facebook – instead the social networking site decided to disable the feature altogether.

“Unfortunately, this week we were contacted again. This time not with a change request, but with a notice that they were going to disable the feature. Rather than leave the users with a broken LimeWire, we decided to disable the feature before they did so. As an avid user of both Facebook and LimeWire myself, I am as disappointed by this as anyone. It is unfortunate for us all, particularly considering that LimeWire and Facebook share the common vision of being ‘a place to connect and share’. We hope to find a way to work with Facebook to re-enable the features that you guys continue to ask for and we sincerely apologize for having to remove this feature in the near-term,” commented Jason Herskowit in an interview for TorrentFreak.



Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, LimeWire, P2P, File sharing, The Pirate Bay

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