is limewire.com a legal website?
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Yes, it is,. It is the way that it is used by the users that makes it potentially an illegal site.\n\nI guess it depends on how you use it.
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The sites are entirely legal, as well as the .torrent files. The media that you receive from other users, however, isn't always legal.\n\nSo, you can go to these sites with ease. It's perfectly legal to download .torrent files. Just be careful what you're downloading, though.
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I like Lime wire more.....I may be mistaken, but..\n\nIt is illegal to use Limewire to download copyrighted material from someone other than the owner of that material.\n\nIt is legal if they are the owners of that material, to, download to your hearts content.\n\nI think it might be against the law in Australia, could be wrong, depends were you are.\n\nWhat is VERY ILLEGAL about Limewire that people don't realize is that if you don't read, pay attention or whatever and get fooled into sharing everything on your computer, and, some of that everything includes other peoples private information and you let everyone have it, that is not just illegal, it is wrong.\n\nIf you don't believe me, using limewire, search for images called dscn or hpim , feel free to add a four digit number after it to mix things up. These are digi cam pictures, mostly from people who don't know they are sharing everything. Searching for text documents is an awesome power when trying to find business people who are sharing everthing. I am not saying to look into or do this.\n\nSee for yourself, one in 7 should be sharing well over 5000 files, easy. This is a serious problem. I am not joking. I have been trying to stop this for months.
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They have license. Its legal and I dont get viruses from there. I did get lots of viruses from Kazaa. I use LimeWire all the time. Love it!
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Limewire is legal.  Downloading the music, that is the illegal part.
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Unlimiteddownloads.com is probably actually free, but it is illegal to download copywrited music/movies/etc, without express permission from the copyright owner. The way that these sites, which offer free downloads, work is they are a P2P(person to person) service which is not illegal. That is how they are able to claim that the service is legal (which it is) but downloading music(as stated above) without permission from the copyright holder, is illegal.
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Technically downloading any copyrighted work whether it be software, music, movies, et al is illegal.  That being said those that get in trouble only get in trouble because they were sharing the files they downloaded or already had, that's how they (the government) finds you.  If you just download but don't share it becomes next to impossible to find you.  And most of the people we are talking about here had servers with many copyrighted works on them.  Generally speaking the individual user is fairly safe but there are exceptions.\n\nNo, Kazaa is not okay, because the free version of Kazaa is full of spyware.  Since you have probably heard of it, LimeWire, http://www.limewire.com/ is great but I have since moved to FrostWire, http://www.frostwire.com/ which is the open source free version of LimeWire Pro.  And FrostWire is based overseas so it would be harder for US laws to affect the software.  I'll reiterate that if you share your files you are at risk of getting in trouble so it's just best if you DO use it to just download and not share anything.\n\nWhen you download files from ANY P2P network always, always scan them with your anti-virus software before running the files.  There is always the possibility the file you downloaded could contain a virus and if it does most AV programs will detect them because it is probably an old virus to which your AV software will have definitions for.  Zero day attacks are not likely to occur on a P2P network.  If you don't have a virus scanner, AVG Free is an excellent one, http://free.grisoft.com/\n\nThere is no guarantee, it is 99.5% safe.  That is, there is only a >1% chance you will actually get caught, there is a slight risk but it is mostly safe.  Mostly being the operative term.
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Don't know about legal, just use limewire or bearshare.
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You meant to say limewire?
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Limewire.com for free downloads
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I don't think you will go to jail, but try not to download music, videos or movies that has copyright material. Almost every music-track or movie has a copyright. Try to buy it online instead.\n\nSome files has some codes that makes them imposible to view or hear if you doesn´t has the licence, so, you just download a song/movie that has copyright, and when Limewire try to play the file it also seeks for the license. \n\nMy advice, delete the file from your computer (because it's protected, it's just a junk file), and try to download songs from sites like Yahoo! music or iTunes Store.
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www.limewire.com   totally free, illegal though
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The site is legal, users who download copyrighted material are acting ILLEGALLY (as if we give a fcuk, lol).\n\nYou can download music, videos, programs, documents... basically snything that it's millions of users choose to share. \n\nas with any p2p network, you can download infected files, especially if you don't know your stuff ( eg: you should know that a 4 minute MP3 @ 128kps is not going to be 281kb in size), so don't use it without frequently updated virus protection
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NEVER! LIMEWIRE IS ILLEGAL... KINDA.\n\nLime wire is not an illegal service, but using it (MOST OF THE TIME IS). When you buy a CD is says the norm copyright and everything, if you'd look into LimeWire, you'll find that getting anything wiht a copyright on the CD it came from is illegal.\nTHEREFORE, ANYTHING PEOPLE GOT FROM CDS TO ADD TO LIMEWIRE AND SHARE WITH OTHERS IS ILLEGAL. SO, UNLESS IT WAS A FREE DOWNLOAD FROM A BAND'S WEBSITE, WHICH MEANS YOU COULD JUST GO GET IT THERE, ITS ILLEGAL.\n\nPlus, you dont know who is sharing the music you get. Some one could put a populare song on limewire, but hide a virus in it, and millions of people that get it, will have viruses!\n\nIf you are smart you'll resist the temtation.
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if you WANT to download something, download limewire at downloads.com for free.
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it's not limewire that's illegal\n\nit's taking movies and music without paying that's the illegal part
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i hope these help (but i dont think that they are totally legal) www.mp3shits.com www.seekasong.com www.yourmp3.net www.mp3raid.com \n\nOR: just download limewire and you can acess jsut about ANY music, or video ever! its great! good luck!!