Lime Wire LLC (www.limewire.com) develops powerful, sophisticated software offering an unparalleled user experience. Its signature products, LimeWire BASIC and LimeWire PRO, run on the decentralized Gnutella Network and are among the world's most popular peer-to-peer file sharing applications. Founded in 2000 by CEO Mark Gorton, Lime Wire is a leader of innovative peer-to-peer software development and solutions in the file sharing industry. With a dedicated staff of seventeen people, the company currently employs the largest number of expert Java developers at the forefront of the file sharing revolution. The Lime Wire team enjoys a dynamic work environment at company headquarters in New York City.

The LimeWire Application

Within weeks of the company's creation, the Lime Wire team developed a router that made connecting to the Gnutella Network fast and easy. This router became the prototype for Gnutella peer connections. The LimeWire program was launched to guide and accelerate the evolution of advanced features on the network, solving bandwidth congestion problems and making it easier for consumers to connect to the Gnutella Network.

Less than one year after its debut in August 2000, LimeWire was downloaded over three million times. Spurring the growth of the Gnutella Network and introducing consumers to the advantages of peer-to-peer networks, LimeWire's success has continued to grow. Since early 2005, LimeWire has consistently been one of the most popular downloads on download.com, with downloads in the hundreds of millions.

As one of the first peer-to-peer programs to run on the Macintosh platform, LimeWire has dominated the Mac file sharing market and continues to leave its competitors in the dust. Of course, Lime Wire is proud to be compatible with all major operating systems including Microsoft, Linux and Sun.

In October 2001, Lime Wire LLC went open source, making the LimeWire source code available under the General Public License (GPL). The move sparked outside development and interest in both LimeWire and Lime Wire LLC. One short month later, Lime Wire's reputation for fairness and neutrality in the Gnutella developer community led to the appointment of Greg Bildson, COO/CTO of Lime Wire, as Administrator of the Gnutella Developer Forum (GDF), the key venue worldwide for communication between Gnutella developers concerning network standards and policies.

As a leader in the open source movement, Lime Wire actively encourages and supports contributions from developers in the open source community. The company rewards active members of the Lime Wire open source community with cash rewards or other gifts. It frequently looks to hire those developers who have made significant improvements to the code. One developer, Sam Berlin, began sharing his efforts on the code in 2002, landed a paid internship in early 2003, and joined the team as a full-time developer upon his graduation from NYU in May of 2003. Lime Wire LLC is committed to open source and firmly believes that with the open source community's help, LimeWire will remain the best P2P software for distributed search and content distribution.

Revenue Stream

Lime Wire LLC is supported exclusively by its sales of LimeWire PRO. Unlike many other file sharing programs, Lime Wire does not include any bundled software with any of its programs. Lime Wire LLC understands that users do not want and should not have adware or spyware sneaked in with LimeWire PRO or LimeWire BASIC. Noted spyware expert Ben Edelman (www.benedelman.com) did a study in 2005 that confirmed LimeWire's as one of the very few file sharing applications free of bundled software. Since its 2004 decision to remove all bundled software from LimeWire, the number of LimeWire users has increased dramatically, with as many as four million unique users each day.

Recent Developments at LimeWire

In early 2006, Lime Wire began development on its beta filtering system to further support intellectual property rights. In the filtering system, copyright owners are encouraged to register files that should not be shared, downloaded or uploaded using the LimeWire client. With filtering, Lime Wire hopes to make its network a safer place for responsible file sharing. Users and copyright owners are invited to review Lime Wire's Copyright Policy to learn more and sign up.