hello,
i want the legal stand point of bittorent and lime wire. are they legal or illegal does it depend on what you download. downloading a movies what about that or songs things like that mabye even programs. Is it illegal?
2006-12-14 11:26:40 · 10 answers · asked by bennyd317 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
They are legal as long no one has specific rights to them. If your downloading a movie made by a company you could get fined. if its you or another member of the family using those programs to distribute their own media (babies first steps,game clips, ect.) thats legal.
The protocol's them selfs are not illegal its what you are sharing that is the determinant the legality of using those services.
2006-12-14 11:43:24 · answer #1 · answered by coolbiker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the purposes of both classes are completely legal... a twin of utilising your pc is. its what you do with it. in case you take advantage of limewire or bittorent to receive replica written classes, music, video clips, or anime, then it truly is prohibited. burning it to disk makes no vast difference. this is the possession of unlawful fabric (it truly is on your troublesome stress or burnt to a cd) it truly is prohibited. Now issues that were aired on television are a grey section... I have the right to video tape some thing on my television, I have the right to record it digitally on my pc too and probably even percentage those.. yet I take this methodology/movie/anime from a commercially obtainable medium (IE a dvd rip) then it truly is the position the regulation receives damaged. wish this enables you
2016-11-30 19:11:41 · answer #2 · answered by klosterman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) the programs themselves are legal to own.
2) Bittorrent can be used to distribute non copyrighted material freely so that users have direct access to these distributions
3) limewire is good to find non-copyrighted material as well.
4) its the SHARING and DOWNLOADING of copyrighted material that is illegal and using the se programs to do si, is what gets you into trouble.
2006-12-14 11:39:22 · answer #3 · answered by arus.geo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well:
Limewire now contains blocks, and we suspect it also has backdoors and tracking of all users! Changed under threat of extortion by the lawyers of the RIAA after Grokster lost in court...
PLUS, the majority of us use p2p to exchange and share FREE Open Source Software (FOSS!!!), like BSD, Linux and the 135,000+ games, applications, programs, suites, etc.
Preference is the OFF SHORE version of Limewire Pro, known as Frostwire, included in http://pclinuxos.com that runs in RAM, boots in CDrom. Install to hard drive assures speeds upto 50X faster than Microsoft!
Even Microsoft runs GNU/Linux on MSN, Hotmail, and MS.com on 45,000 systems!
2006-12-14 11:34:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Limewire is still legal at least for now. I dont konw about the other one you mentioned.
2006-12-14 11:34:27 · answer #5 · answered by Angel 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i dont know about bittorent but i know for a fact that limewire is illegal cuz your suposted to pay for each download or else those rich celebs wont get those few cents they dont even need
2006-12-14 11:33:19 · answer #6 · answered by NOS4blood 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Legalities are the least of my concerns.
WinMX. STEALING music since napster turned into a bunch of whining sissies, and haven't been caught. Never will.
2006-12-14 11:36:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sharing personal or public domain files using those programs is legal.
Sharing copyrighted files is illegal.
I hope those who steal files using P2P get caught and punished severly.
Maybe someone will break into their house and help themselves to their things. They shouldn't complain, they help themselves to others things.
2006-12-14 11:30:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
If it were illegal then why can you download limewire?
Go to http://www.limewire.com and download the 4.10.6 Basic version is free to download and use.
To answer your questions about this visit http://www.limewire.com/faq
2006-12-14 11:30:03 · answer #9 · answered by ஐ♥Julian'sMommy♥ஐ 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Always has been, always will be.
You use these service AT YOUR OWN RISK, however.
2006-12-14 13:41:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋