Curse

Guillaume De Sonoma · Aug 29, 2005, 01:21 AM // 01:21

I use limewire and its pretty cool but how leagal is it. I know you get the songs from other people but not sure just how legal it is.

Mistress Eyahl · Aug 29, 2005, 02:35 AM // 02:35

If it's free, it's illegal.

I use the same program

Mr Fizzle · Aug 29, 2005, 02:38 AM // 02:38

Its a no no unless you wanna risk it like me

.And yes free means illegal =p.

Guillaume De Sonoma · Aug 29, 2005, 02:51 AM // 02:51

i would think that something so big as lime wire would be targeted by the music companies by now like napster was

Neutral Tyrant · Aug 29, 2005, 02:57 AM // 02:57

Kazaa Lite is back also.

Synthos · Aug 29, 2005, 03:04 AM // 03:04

Limewire is completely legal.. Unless you download copywrited material.
If your going to do it try to keep your sharing to a minimum, they go after the people with the biggest file share libraries.

A warning to people who use kazaa. Even Kazaa plus contains spyware even though it swears it does not, I would'nt touch kazaa with a 10 foot pole..

Right now im using emule, Its a bit slower but it has most the files i want..

Yeah i bet that limewire will go down in the future, Its based in New York city.
Kazaa will last a bit longer because its based in Austrailia, wich laws are different.

EchoSex · Aug 29, 2005, 03:04 AM // 03:04

Who cares if it's legal or not. Truth is, if it isn't legal, it SHOULD be. Most music is out of print after a few months and if you can't let other people listen to a song you own, then it should be illigal to play music in a car with more than one person in it.

Synthos · Aug 29, 2005, 03:09 AM // 03:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by EchoSex

Who cares if it's legal or not. Truth is, if it isn't legal, it SHOULD be. Most music is out of print after a few months and if you can't let other people listen to a song you own, then it should be illigal to play music in a car with more than one person in it.

Omg.. lets not turn this into a debate ;P

because then ill have to side with the downloaders ;P

Owen · Aug 29, 2005, 03:13 AM // 03:13

I stopped using Limewire 2 years ago due to the excessive spyware it contained, just a word of warning as I don't know how much it still contains but back then it was a black hole in terms of security.

And yes, so long as people are using these programs to download copyrighted materials they will get challenged in courts one by one and for each that falls two more will rise.

EchoSex · Aug 29, 2005, 03:16 AM // 03:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Synthos

Omg.. lets not turn this into a debate ;P

because then ill have to side with the downloaders ;P

Haha, I'm with the downloaders :P I bootleg everything. Hell, I don't even pay to play Ragnarok or WoW (When I did play WoW)

Vladmoney · Aug 29, 2005, 03:18 AM // 03:18

i prefer emule myself.

Synthos · Aug 29, 2005, 03:39 AM // 03:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vladmoney

i prefer emule myself.

Bitch to set up.. But yeah.. Emule rocks..
The rating system is awesome, you can detect if somethings fake like 30 seconds into download. And you can actually search for arcive files. Theres a trend where people are putting CD's or even entire discographies of CD's in .rar files and posting them online.
I just downloaded the latest version of limewire to test it out, There is no spyware in the latest version, I just throughly scanned it. After testing it for a few min It seems that emule is significantly better and finding those rare files, Like rare bands and what not.

midnyte13 · Aug 29, 2005, 04:08 AM // 04:08

www.eff.com

just in case folks