It appears that Ars Technica is not very technical, or up-to-date on tech. Today's "LimeWire" is just a basic centralized WeTransfer-like file transfer service, with a crypto NFT token attached. Real LimeWire, the P2P Gnutella client, has long been dead. Old versions can't connect anymore, probably due to bootstrap servers being offline.
But this entire article is based on Reddit, so that very much explains it.
It appears that Ars Technica is not very technical, or up-to-date on tech. Today's "LimeWire" is just a basic centralized WeTransfer-like file transfer service, with a crypto NFT token attached. Real LimeWire, the P2P Gnutella client, has long been dead. Old versions can't connect anymore, probably due to bootstrap servers being offline.
But this entire article is based on Reddit, so that very much explains it.