by Phillip Joseph
LimeWire and Ares were both free P2P ( peer-to-peer) file sharing client programs that ran on almost any OS that supported Java software platforms back in the day and almost solely supported the idea of media file sharing. You made an inquiry or two and you got what you needed without paying a cent to the artist or the production house. These people, however bloated their pockets might be, most likely toiled over months or years to make an 80mb file which you and I downloaded at 20kbps and waited for probably an hour to get our hands on and immerse ourselves in its goodness.