LimeWire claims to be the fastest file sharing program on the planet. There are 2 versions (FREE and PRO) of LimeWire. The PRO version cost $21.95 for 6 months of software updates and technical support or both for 1 year at $34.95. The benefits of LimeWire PRO is you get optimized search results, turbo-charged downloads, connections to more sources and more reliable downloads.
LimeWire doesn’t implement any protection on it’s PRO version. No serial number or any security checks at all on the software. After purchasing LimeWire PRO, you’ll immediately being forwarded a sales page where you can download the PRO version of LimeWire for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, OS/2 and Solaris. Whenever the customer requires to re-download LimeWire PRO, he/she will only need to access the sales page.
It seems that LimeWire doesn’t care at all on protecting its own software from piracy. No protection on the program and the sales page don’t require authentication/logging in. If you know the sales page, you can download the PRO version anytime. As we all know, Google has the smartest bot that crawls millions of websites and guess what, it managed to index the LimeWire PRO sales page as well which enables many pirates to download the latest LimeWire PRO for FREE!
If you know how to use Google’s search strings, simply use the “site” string and look for “sales.limewire.com“. As you can see at the screenshot below, only 1 link appears on the page but if you click at the text that says “repeat the search with the omitted results included”, about 70+ LimeWire sales page links will appear.
Most of the LimeWire sales page indexed by Google will tell you that “This account has expired”, “This account was cancelled” or redirects you to LimeWire FREE download page. Out of the 70+ links, only 4 sales page are still valid.
This bug has been around for many years already and I don’t know why LimeWire still allow this to go on. They are already using robot.txt to prevent search engine bots from crawling into the sales subdomain but it is still being indexed because people post the links to forums and websites. This is an important lesson for all of you who are selling ebooks or any intangible products on the Internet. Most of the time your products will be leaked out via direct link (just like Chapter-M). At least password protect the page or install some kind of script to detect unauthorized multiple logins. Also, using random characters on the filename also helps.
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Old Limewire versions available: downloadoldversion.com/limewire.html
hey i’ve tried all the links. from “site:sales.limewire.com” and still couldn get a download, am i doing something wrong.. or am i jus too late since i see ur posts dating bak from march 2008
Hy, there is another route around to the search engine bug, you could download the limewire pro version at…
i love limewire
LOL this works like a charm :P
Juz search for ” sales.limewire site:limewire.com ” (no need for “-expired -canceled ” etc)on google n click d last link on the last page..
well…tats wat i thought too..i clickd on many links on the first and second pages in google, to be redirected to the buy product page. As a last attempt, i tried a search \”sales.limewire site:limewire.com\” as suggested by sam, and then clicked on the last link. voila! it workd!! i wuz juz abt to close the page wen i realized dat the page wuz de same as seen in raymond\’s screenshot…
I would search for this. (Without the quotations) “sales.limewire site:limewire.com -expire -expired -canceled -support”
Yea tried it, still works,have a little patience.
Well not really yousef. Some links still work.
hi all
I think limewire chairman has read this article ,:)
they closed the loophole
its not avalible now
to download
best wishes
you know…you can get your pro version just by searching it with limewire basic:D
Loll…
I tried \”inurl:sales.limewire.com\” but didn\’t help.
Tried the advamce and lol… :p
If you have the free version, you can also search for it, and get the full version. XD
About the Frostwire:
XD Lol… Why use a \”free\” version, when you\’ll download piracy from it. :p
lol they are too careless or they don’t care..huhu. I think they already profit a lot.. I already found the leak page. Thanx for da infos. Never used Limewire before, since my uni block any p2p connections
everyone is always like download frostwire its just like limewire pro. yeah a OLD VERSION of limewire pro. limewire pro has updated alot since frostwire was based on it.
Thanks Raymond,This Program Is Not For Me However I Would Like To Thanks You For Your Tips,And Work,And Eforts.You Are A Great Man,I Watch Your Page Everyday.
Big Thanks Raymond All The Way From Sweden(stockholm)Keep Up The Good Work,I Hope You Can Read My English!!
I got it. Thanks a lot Raymond!
thanks raymond i got it.
very nice been using the free version for a couple years. It took a few tries but i found a page that worked. THANKS Raymond. And thanks Alejandro
You can find/download limewire pro with limewire itself.
The old trick is to guess the registered email in the sales page.
Hahahahaha this is most amusing :P Yet again bravo and thank you. I like the \\\”hint\\\”. I got it after some over complicated deliberation.
Limewires open source? Where can I find an uncompiled editable version?
Link 40 still works, for those interested :)
Nice find Raymond!
There\’s another software very like LimeWire, it\’s called FrostWire and works almost the same (if not the same) as the PRO version of Lime, you can get it at
frostwire.com
That way you don\’t need to become a bad guy and use a pirate version of Lime :)
I found this flaw 2 years ago ? Wow still working after then how bad…
really nice raymond :D
thanks
Page 3, direct link.
Done.
lol thnx raymond n hey hobster pg 40 helped me as wel….lol mr.raymond i think u have given out info. very openly its jus common sense perhaps…;) to find out wht\’s da string since u already mentioned lol….
Actually, seeing as LimeWire\\\’s open source, a bunch of devs added PRO functionality and added torrent capability. It\\\’s called FrostWire, looks just the same, just with a blue theme instead of green :). It works just the same and is open source as well, so we don\\\’t have to rsort to piracy.
Nice one Raymond :-)
I tried it out of curiosity and indeed worked like a charm. Another *hint*: number your google results and link 48 did it for me.
Now I just need to see if this program is useful for me
ali, providing LimeWire PRO full version directly from this site is piracy and that I cannot do that. You can read the article properly and there are *hints* ;)
Thanks for the info. Anyway we can download the full version directly