limewire

I use limewire and I think its awesome, personally I think its partially legal and partially illegal or maybe theres some flaw in the law which Limewire is using to steer clear of trouble.Take for instance the case where the band "Metallica" sued the then popular Napster.If you buy a CD legally, you will see at the bottom in small letters "Unauthorised public performance, broadcasting and copying of this recording prohibited" so I guess Im kinda confused too!!

Originally Posted by vikram_inyourface

I use limewire and I think its awesome, personally I think its partially legal and partially illegal or maybe theres some flaw in the law which Limewire is using to steer clear of trouble.Take for instance the case where the band "Metallica" sued the then popular Napster.If you buy a CD legally, you will see at the bottom in small letters "Unauthorised public performance, broadcasting and copying of this recording prohibited" so I guess Im kinda confused too!!

Well, this is not download from some "*****" site so i supouse this trick is legal... that's the problem for limewire, but if they are seruous enough company they will fix that problem somehow

Originally Posted by Ljiljan

Well, this is not download from some "*****" site so i supouse this trick is legal... that's the problem for limewire, but if they are seruous enough company they will fix that problem somehow

Ignorance is no defence as they say here in the UK... Surely it isn't legal to get a paid program for free, even if it's off their site?

some say it's bad... but I use it... great for mp3

Originally Posted by lareneg

Ignorance is no defence as they say here in the UK... Surely it isn't legal to get a paid program for free, even if it's off their site?

Yup, it's from their server... some kind of bug or something But it really works!

well heres the final result: Limewire = Legal
The legality mainly depends on how u use it. it is meant for peers to transfer files to each other such as photos and files not copyrighted by someone. downloading things such as music by famous artists and famous movies is illegal but the program itself is perfectly legal.

Originally Posted by xCoMeTx

well heres the final result: Limewire = Legal
The legality mainly depends on how u use it. it is meant for peers to transfer files to each other such as photos and files not copyrighted by someone. downloading things such as music by famous artists and famous movies is illegal but the program itself is perfectly legal.

As I originally said


Anyway, I can't think of many reasons why you'd want to use it other than for pirating, so I'd recommend you stay clear of it.

yeh its legal but some ppl but its illegal to download the music/videos/softwares

Its only legal if you download stuff cvered under the GNU act thing

Oh, somebody commented on Limewire using something to steer clear of trouble - I think they say that they developed the software, and it's not their fault how people use it (because the files aren't hosted on their servers, they're hosted on other people's computers and you download it from other people, hence the name p2p (peer to peer))