I'm too chicken to use Limewire. I'm afraid I'll get caught.
2006-08-19 23:54:54 · 11 answers · asked by Heather K 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Because Limewire itself is a software client, and not illegal. They are in fact a legal business, offering a way for people to share files. There is nothing illegal about that. What IS illegal, is to upload or make available copyrighted media, and/or to download copyrighted material.
The uploading and downloading is where the secret is. As long as they have a disclaimer that notifies YOU that transferring copyrighted material is not allowed by law, AND that they are NOT held accountable for your actions, they are in the clear!
I am not a legal professional, and I might have worded this wrong, but I remember reading an article explaining this when Napster went to court.
EDITED TO ADD: ok, I did a little more research, and read at "How Stuff Works" that Limewire is actually one of several software clients for a technology called Gnutella. There are more than a dozen free software downloads that do the same thing as Limewire, but I'm guessing Limewire is the most popular in features.
Apparently, part of the legal process here, is a loop hole in the law that allows "FRIENDS" to share copyrighted material. Napster had a central database that held the information of millions of songs, but not the songs themselves, as those are available on YOUR computer once you initiate a P2P software.
The Gnutella concept changes the way queries are executed, and does not require any single "server" (YOU) to have a list of everyone elses music. This approach brings the "friends sharing a file or two with friends" a little more into focus.
It is STILL illegal to share copyrighted media on any of the Gnutella type systems though, so if you get caught by the music industry, you WILL pay the piper!
SEE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording_Industry_Association_of_America
2006-08-20 00:07:25 · answer #1 · answered by Life after 45 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Limewire isn't unlawful in any respect. the individuals making this gadget are no longer sharing the archives, yet its the consumers that could proportion archives. a number of those archives may well be unlawful.... Limewire, as any provider provider, isn't in charge for a manner their provider is used because of the fact there are no longer certainly offering the provider. Thats the element of p2p application, its thoroughly decentralized.there is not any obligatory server that certainly shops the archives. Servers only music, they dont shop..... some government dont draw close this, they raid the servers which the trackers are saved on and all they discover are a team of textual content archives...and a database...
2016-10-02 07:50:30 · answer #2 · answered by mathisen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Limewire is not illegal.
Using Limewire to download copyrighted material or to make copyrighted material available for download is illegal, unless you have the permission of the copyright holder.
Subscription music services are cheap, legal, and virus-free.
2006-08-23 08:46:09 · answer #3 · answered by TJ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-20 00:03:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A knife may kill or it may cut food.
It is the human who uses it who defines the object.
Why ban p2p software because a minority uses it illegaly.
I do not want a situation whereby the minority dictates the rules for the majority.
2006-08-20 00:02:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
P2P programs aren't illegal, what's illegal is to download or distribute copyrighted material.
2006-08-20 00:08:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not as easy as flipping a switch. Go ahead and use it, you won't get caught.
2006-08-19 23:58:36 · answer #7 · answered by Einsteininium 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use it all the time.
2006-08-20 00:01:14 · answer #8 · answered by I Am Jack's Wasted Life 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bureaucracy takes it's sweet time.
2006-08-20 00:00:06 · answer #9 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you wont its ok, the badies are only after the supplyers or sellers of pirate stuff
2006-08-19 23:59:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋