I used to download music (a little) until I heard of people getting arrested for it. Now I mostly just rip pawn-shop and flea-market CDs. Is Limewire (and sites like it) legal or are folks just taking their chances with it?
2006-06-15 20:04:46 · 6 answers · asked by ronbyron 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Distributing copyrighted material is just as illegal as ever. But they can't arrest us all, right?
2006-06-15 20:08:01 · answer #1 · answered by automaticmax 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The thing with that is they go actually go after the people that uploading the files aka the distributor, they dont really got after people that downloading it, that's why only a fool that leave they downloaded files in their share folders, because once you uploaded the files, then its a crime, a real crime thats where people got arrested.
2006-06-15 20:11:27 · answer #2 · answered by TehKoppy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Folks are taking their chances somewhat. It seems to be the high traffic users that get into trouble however.
And they aren't selling the music, they're sharing it. It's pretty much a gray area.
2006-06-15 20:08:14 · answer #3 · answered by nightevisions 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kind of like illegals ("immigrants") - Since so many people are doing it, they don't bother to enforce the rules. I can't see them going after millions of people who download. There would be a riot !
2006-06-15 20:13:25 · answer #4 · answered by george g 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its really illegal to upload, not to download... hence, i dont upload (means to share with other people)... :D..
2006-06-15 20:47:41 · answer #5 · answered by deathblooms7894 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think its legal...?
2006-06-15 20:08:03 · answer #6 · answered by Bo Darville 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋