No, the program itself is not illegal.Hey wait. Its Illegal!?
My Mom downloaded it a while ago. ._.
So does that mean I must take it off...?
It's like people don't even bother reading the posts anymore. I mean, if they did, the thread would have closed about five minutes after it started. No, it's not illegal. For the most part, downloading something you're supposed to pay for without paying for it is illegal, and if you use LimeWire to do that, you're probably breaking the law. There's really not anything more to discuss, it's quite simply as I've put it.Hey wait. Its Illegal!?
My Mom downloaded it a while ago. ._.
So does that mean I must take it off...?
Hey wait. Its Illegal!?
My Mom downloaded it a while ago. ._.
So does that mean I must take it off...?
Wouldn't Sweden have the same copyright laws?
The one thing that's quite pointless is the copyright infringement statement.
- "I Will Not Use LimeWire for Copyright Infringement"
And what happens? Lol
Except it's indisputably not illegal software. You can use it for illegal purposes, but it's not illegal in itself.I think it's as illegal as any other music sharing site/program. Other resources being more illegal than others is just silly. I personally don't like Limewire, as my computer got a virus from it, so I switched to uTorrent. It's much faster and reliable.
I can't think of any reason to use FLAC unless you're redistributing the audio. As for Vorbis, AAC is probably slightly better, and it has its open source implementations, too (though NeroDigitalAudio is probably the best free AAC encoder, tbh). Plus, it's more widely used.Or for the more intelligent of you Ogg/Vorbis or Flac files ~.^
lime wire to me is like karma
its pretty much illegal but you get somthing from it
the bad side, pretty much every song has a virus on it
thats why i stopped using it
I just wanted to point out, I read a few posts about reccommendations to the government to ban it. Personally I say, don't, let it be there. Internet is not the only source of pirated media, rather a bigger problem is the shops that sell cheap CDs.
Don't get me wrong, but the government can't take a good action when it comes to things like this and we know what they will do. Ban P2P, do we want that, P2P protocols are the only good file transfer protocols that is cheap and has less overhead and bandwidth etc.
Think of China, they are too bad with this, half of the things are blocked, almost no MMORPGs, no P2P. The internet is almost only for information there.
Discussions like this is where conflicts arise, because like DakeDesu, even I feel that there are something that you can almost never find in shops. It is hard to find movies that were released in 1990s in shops now so what do you do, download it off BT no? And then BitTorrent is a nice protocol, here is India, Internet is not cheap and I live in one of the remote areas (university campus). With BT, I get almost 1.5x the usual speed.
Ofcourse there are somethings only meant for the smart people, Limewire gives enough features for its users to recognise useless files but for soemone who is careless, its a big hazard.
Think of youtube, it has music, movies, TV episodes. A tonne of stuff you would call illegal, we all know that those files are easilly downloadable. Now tell me, do you think of YT to be illegal.