TorrentFreak quotes an anonymous source as saying, "On October 26 the remaining LimeWire developers were forced to shut down the company's servers and modify remote settings in the filesharing client to try to harm the Gnutella network. They were then laid off [...] Shortly after, a horde of piratical monkeys climbed aboard the abandoned ship, mended its sails, polished its cannons, and released it free to the community."

LimeWire Pirate Edition is currently only available for Windows. It is based ...