If you download music off limewire just for your Ipod can you get fined or something? My friend said that if you don't pay for the music it's pirated and that I could get fined but I'm only using it for my ipod. Is any of this true? I need to know so if it is I can stop using it.
2007-12-29 14:16:43 · 42 answers · asked by Ashley 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
It's illegal! Don't do it! just get an iTunes card.... they're affordable. iTunes songs are only $.99
2007-12-29 14:24:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's never happened to anyone I know from the states. Apparently limewire is "not illegal" here in Canada, so I haven't been faced with this problem... though I hardly use Limewire or Frostwire.
I'd say your chances of being caught are slim since they can't possibly fine everybody who uses Limewire in the US... However, I wouldn't recommend particularly high usage of the program. Y'know, just to be safe.
But I'd have to say that your friend is correct that downloading music instead of paying for it technically is "piracy"...
2007-12-29 14:22:11 · answer #2 · answered by T.K. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is all a bunch of BS its SHARING not stealing stealing is taking something completely from limewire making a cd and selling it if it's on your ipod it's no big deal i have been using limewire for...2 years now Dont download Porn and you wont recieve viruses pay attention to what your downloading this is not illegal and why the hell would cop's waste there time breaking in to serve a 150 dollar fine???
2007-12-29 14:22:27 · answer #3 · answered by vans_rowley_fan 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Technically it's not illegal because "technically" you're not downloading anything. To download you'd need to be connected to a website. Limewire is what's called a Peer to Peer Network.. meaning.. you're not connected to a website.. but instead.. connected directly to the computers of the people who use the program. As a musician though.. I gotta say.. if you like a song.. don't be cheap... pay the artist for god's sake! You can get downloads legally for about 99 cents on dozens of sites. If you think writing songs is easy... give it a try sometime. It's not.. and the talent and effort deserve to be rewarded.
2007-12-29 14:26:41 · answer #4 · answered by . 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you CAN buy it somewhere (like it's a commercial CD you can buy at the store) and you download it off Limewire, it's copyright infringement and it's illegal.
Even if you only put it on your iPod, it's still considered "stealing" music. The only way it's legal is if the music is stuff that you CAN'T buy anywhere else - like if your friend's band records a demo or something.
There are sites like SpiralFrog.Com where you can download music for free legally, but music from Limewire is almost always illegal.
2007-12-29 14:24:00 · answer #5 · answered by Chris 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have downloaded music from limewire and then imported it into my ipod and so far I have not been fined.
The thing is that when I try to import videos from limewire to my ipod they get into ipod as movies with no audio.
Backk to your question, I do not think you can get fined for three reasons:
-how are they going to know where u got it from? It could have been from a cd u bought and u ripped....
-how are they going to track down the zillions of people who do it?
-AND, who the hell are 'THEY'?
2007-12-29 14:22:45 · answer #6 · answered by peter 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is an ongoing argument fueled by the misinformed. Legally they can do nothing about it. They will sometimes take people to court though, but rarely win. Nobody can fine you though. There are extremely low chances of them finding you anyway.
Limewire though, is illegal. It's legal to share files, but Limewire sells a program to share them. You can't do this, and a bunch of these guys have been shut down.
A good alternative is Ares, if you use Windows. It's legal, and it's faster.
I use Frostwire on Linux. It's good, but I think there are better ones. I just haven't looked.
2007-12-29 14:25:21 · answer #7 · answered by Sam64 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put simply if you need to pay for the music on itunes and not on limewire it is pirating. So almost everything including the ipod music is pirated.
2007-12-29 14:21:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Limewire is completly free. You can not get fined unless you are caught selling burned CDs. Although i do recommend Frostwire. Its a better program by the same people as limewire.
2007-12-29 14:22:38 · answer #9 · answered by Braedyn is due 5/8/08! 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
technically it's filesharing so....its not legal. haha. :)
i think i'm going to have to go with the classic excuse "but everybody else is doing it", though.
i would be VERY VERY careful. limewire jacked up my computer almost past the point of no return. if my father wasn't an I.T. guy then I would have never gotten all the crap off. my poor computer is still recovering - thank the lord for AVG. haha.
my point is. be careful. i accidentally downloaded a song that was, apparently, all a virus - NOT cool. haha.
anyway, my point is - i don't think that i'm a terrible person - but to be completely honest... if everybody else was jumping off a bridge... i wouldn't want to be the last one alive... ;) haha
i'm very proud that you are morally sound though and you don't like, want to go to hell for using limewire, haha. i can respect that. good luck in your moral endeavors.
2007-12-29 14:33:17 · answer #10 · answered by Rebekah 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
umm yeah it's illegal,everything is illegal if you dont pay for it pretty much lol. And you could get fined but you know al ot of peeps use limewire so i wouldnt really worry about it. jusat dont go up to a cop and tell them u use limewire. =] hope this helps
2007-12-29 14:20:44 · answer #11 · answered by USA/KCFCsoccer7 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋