how do you feel about the RIAA?
366749
Wonderful human beings to sue consumers with money they made off consumers.  Just like Wal-Mart.
120868
If someone is dumb enough to brag on TV or in a blog that they download pirated music, then their statements can be used against them in court.  It would also be enough for prosecutors to get a search warrant to search the person's home and computer to gather additional evidence for possibly prosecution.  It would be enough evidence for the recording industry to file a lawsuit and make the same demands to inspect the ocmputer for further evidence.
804621
Babes...You got F(_)cked...sorry....two ways to do it...buy them all again...or limewire at your own risk...I feel for you though I really do..
429937
They are realistically upset that they are losing millions and millions (and millions) of dollars when people get music, movies, etc. for free.\n\nEven with that, I still buy bootleg whenever possible. It doesnt bother me that they can't take another trip around the world or pay their pool guy. *shrug shoulders*
114716
It's free to anyone who wants to use it, I found the first couple times I used it I got my music pretty fast download wise. After awhile though registered users get their music before unresgistered (paying customers) do.
879724
It's illegal to "rip" copies of your own DVDs even though you purchased them,the moment you stick it into your DVD-Rom drive with the intent of making a copy,you can go to prison,and RIAA will be rich.
584351
They are worth about as much as anyone is willing to pay for them.\n\nSeriously, unless you find someone who is a hardcore fan, and unless the LPs in your possession are extremely rare, they're worth as much as you paid for them.
686285
Blind Guardian, you're normal.\n\nBeen there, done that. Because I was so protective of my investment, I was looked upon as somewhat weird by my ex-wife. But I paid that no mind. By the time I was your age, I had hundreds of LPs and 45s and I had a filing system for all of the LPs. I could find an LP with a blind fold on and spun around in a circle for five minutes. Knew when an album was misfiled (god, I hated "looking" for something when it should ALWAYS be "right there."). \n\nMy sound/video discs, handle with care or lose an arm. My kids and my ex-wife now handle discs with the utmost of care, like I do. It's beautiful. :)) I don't understand why people accept discs with scratches, fingerprints. Those discs become unplayable or at best skip or stop playing.\n\nBTW, if you haven't seen the movie Diner, you need to check out the scene with the record collection/music lover, Shrevie. You probably mirror that character. I totally identified with him.
524308
I think they are asking you to volunteer to have your pc bugged so if you do it, even on accident, they can arrest you.\n\nDid you know that if a copyright holder believes you have violated his right, he can enter your home without a warrant to protect that right?  The record companies had done it, but cooled off for public outrage.  It's the only industry out to sue its own customers.\n\nvisit janisian.com, a well known recording artist, and see what she has to say about it.
874863
Limewire itself is legal, i use it constantly, its just that certain songs etc are not licensed and it's illegal to download those.. Its a great social downloading site.. I believe in sharing, especially since music is going downhill these days... why should we pay for the older stuff, when they're already millionaires and set for life... and i do think its fine for those without enough money to use it...\n\n\nFor 99 cents in china, you can buy a dvd, or full cd even.. Its so expensive in the rest of the world, its all power realism, getting more power and money...
416401
Can you be sued...YES.  Will you be sued, probably not.  Especially as you are "listening and deleting".  The music industry is mainly after those who are file sharing songs without paying the cost of the production for the album/CD they were on originally.
185806
The RIAA may not own the rights to the songs and thus may not be able to sue you, but that doesn't magically make it legal.  It's still just as illegal, you're just less likely to get caught.
46896
Actually, I prefer a subscription music services over other services for a multitude of reasons:\n\n1) No spam, viruses or spyware with subscription music services.\n\n2) Subscription music services are far more reliable at delivering music than music sharing systems.  I can get in a song in minutes from a subscription music service.  Some more obscure songs I tried to download with KaZaa took days to download.  Sometimes the downloads never ever completed.\n\n3) There is actually more music available on subscription music services (like whole albums by artists) where as sharing services only have one or two songs by an artist sometimes.  Maybe this isn't true for very popular artists but for the people I listen to (music from the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, and 00's) I get far more off of subscription music services.\n\n4) Better quality sound.  I like the higher bit rates and better ripping you get with a music service.  For sharing services, the bit rate is often lower, resulting in lower quality sound, or there may have been problems with the encoder the folks used.\n\n5) Oh yeah!  It's a legitimacy thing.  I don't mind paying for music.  I believe in capitalism and people making money off of their hard work.  Even when I could have borrowed albums to make cassette tape copies, when I was a poor teenager, I never did.  I don't mind paying for quality products.\n\n6) Besides, now with subscription music services, you can get all the music you can listen to for as little as $5 a month.  To take it with you, it's as little as $12 a month.\n\nSo, without buying any songs, I have over 1000 songs from over 300 albums that I can take with me on a portable MP3 player.  Why buy one CD a month or 12 songs a month when you can get almost anything new or old almost any time you want without waiting for the download to happen?\n\nDo the math.  This is thousands of dollars worth of music pennies a song a month.\n\nI used Napster (the original).  Hated it.\nI used KaZaa.  Really hated it.\nI really hated waiting and waiting to get a crappy copy of a song.\n\nI used Rhapsody!  I loved it!\nI now use Yahoo! Music.  It's less expensive.\n\nRent music, don't buy it (or pirate it).
1154952
Oh what a lot of bull....   it has nothing to do with conspiracies, dictatorships or the government...\n\nWhen you say "downloading", you're talking about getting a free copy of a commerical product.   Somebody made that product, and expects to get paid for doing so.    What you're doing is stealing...  but it's happening in such numbers that it's just not practical to prosecute every individual who scores a few bootleg movies...\nThe movie. music and game industries are directing their energies to proscuting the people who turn theft into a big business.... they steal the product and pass it on because they think its cool to "beat the system", or because they have some convoluted political agenda...\nNow, can I come by and take somehting that you worked for? Your car?  Is it OK If I take that and give it to a stranger on the street?  You wouldn't mind?  It is, after all, politically correct ...  :-)
360945
http://www.riaa.com/default.asp
322468
Niether. Online file sharing is a boon to artists. It drives the record companies nuts and is killing CD stores. The reality is downloading music is a more natural form of distrabution. It is what people have wanted to do with music for years. No more buying a CD for a single song. \n\nMore importantly it opens up the market to independent artists. No longer can the record companies strangle what music we hear. If we want to hear new music in the style that the record companies think is out of date we just look up indie artists who still make 60s style Rock or sing Folk music or do classical or Metal or Punk or the hundreds of other sub-genres the record companies keep attempting to kill. \n\nArtists except for those who have been around forever and are popular enough to demand a record contract suffered under the old system. Most went bankrupt after making millions for the record companies. Those days are over. Today the artist has a change to make a fair share of the proceeds. True there will be less money to share in. Still long term the market that is shaping up is pro-artist and will give music lovers more variety, more choice and less cost for the same music. \n\nThe biggest problem with the music industry today and the film industry to a lessor extent is a lack of creative vision, fear of taking risks and the attempt to limit what audiences want to hear and see. Out of all the movies release by major studios in a year there are only a few a year nodays I have any interest in seeing. The last one I eagerly stood in line to see in a movie theatre was the Return of the king. Most movies today are tired sequals or remakes. Movies you can predict the plot of from a trailor and often you've watched all the good parts in a movie just by watching the trailor.  \n\nMusic released today is pale copies of independent bands that forced their way onto the scene. Radio is bribed to hype and play certain artists and those same artists are dumped a year or two lator for the next fad. As such I buy few CDs any more. I buy mostly from indie sites. I've included a couple good ones in the sources section. It does mean sorting through some really bad artists to find the really good ones. Still there is some top notch music out there released by indie artists. \n\nThere is also a growing movement that believes music and film should be free. How people will make a living creating this work is another story if this movement takes hold.
213027
Well, for some things, like music and stuff, yeah it's stealing. But the p2p programs aren't wrong in themselves, they're very useful for distributing legal software and stuff. That said, thinking that it's sort of stealing hasn't really stopped me from getting the music off every computer I can on our network at my college, so I guess maybe I could just be a bad person.