Does anyone here use limewire or any other file sharing software? If so, I have questions.

Does anyone here use limewire or any other file sharing software? If so, I have questions.
i been using limewire for a few years.

i use soulseek....

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i been using limewire for a few years.

Have you heard of anyone getting fined for copyright infringement?

Have you heard of anyone getting fined for copyright infringement?
there were some cases a year ago. i guess it can happen.
you gotta know how to do it.

there were some cases a year ago. i guess it can happen.
you gotta know how to do it.

So how do you do it (without getting fined)?

Have you heard of anyone getting fined for copyright infringement?

Hi Brother Diakonos ... good to see you back in the house. I don't use any of those file sharing places, but my daughter is in school in St. Louis and she shared the following with me, just recently.

She said she downloaded a movie, and received a communication from her ISP provider (cable), that she had violated copyright laws by downloading this movie, and was being warned that there will be greater consequences if she does it again.

Of course it was her plan to never do it again, but she received a second communication from her ISP, this time via the building manager of her apartment complex, telling her that they were going to have to disconnect her cable because she's downloaded a movie illegally.

Well of course she was stumped at first, because she's not downloaded anything else since then, but she was telling me that she still has the program on her laptop ... not sure which fileshare program she was using ... and she said that when she boots up her machine, this program automatically launches ... and even though she isn't downloading ... perhaps others are downloading from her machine ... and that is what they are calling her 2nd offense.

Well ... she fussed with the management a little, asked for a reduction of her rent, if she's going to have to have her cable disconnected ... at which time, they said that they would get out of the way ... and let her deal directly with the ISP herself.

She explained to them the above, and said that she'd remove the program from her machine, so this will never happen again ... and all was well.

Copyright Infringement does seem to be very big now ... i even saw where they are putting digital stamps on every frame of movies, so the creators can know if there are illegal copies ... where the original was sold. The program i was watching seemed to imply that the original owner may have to answer for the illegal copies found.

I think it's best to stay above board as much as possible.

We all know, that what others get a slap on the wrist for ... we get the electric chair.

Much Love and Peace.

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Destee

Every program I have I have gotten off of limewire
I havent had any problems some kats try to load the
downloads with viruses so be careful but its cool too me though
make sure you run a scan on what your downloading before
You do loving Limewire!!!

I don't remember the details, but a friend of a friend got hit with $800,000.00 in fines and penalties for downloading and reselling. Yes, they filed bankruptcy to get out of it. Pay the dollar a song and keep out of trouble!

So how do you do it (without getting fined)?
if i told U i'd have to kill you.

do you have limewire?
what is your situation/position?

if i told U i'd have to kill you.

do you have limewire?
what is your situation/position?

I installed the application on my new computer last night. It's my first desktop with a read/writeable drive on it.

Given the horror stories I've heard, I think I going to take Slowly's advice and just pay Itunes a buck per download.

I installed the application on my new computer last night. It's my first desktop with a read/writeable drive on it.

Given the horror stories I've heard, I think I going to take Slowly's advice and just pay Itunes a buck per download.
just move any files that you download out of the shared folder. that is the only folder they have access to.
my shared folder is always empty.
you should have a router and a firewall and anti virus, of course.

I used to use Limewire but it slowed up my PC too much so I use Azureus now much more efficient.

I dont know about the US but here in the UK although technically illega you will only be prosecuted for downloading movies if you distribute them for financial gain, personal use on a PC will not be followed up.

I have used it before but never to download a movie
and it do have a way to slow your PC up big time ..

becareful what and how you use it and what you do

While you are on Limewire, others are sharing your internet bandwidth. Look under options to throttle down how much of your bandwidth you share.

Family ... once you give these programs access to your computer, how are you able to determine that they are doing only what they say they do, going only where you allow or direct them? Do you have access to the code, able to understand it all? If not, you're really just "trusting" the developers. Someone more knowledgeable than me, correct me if i'm wrong.

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Destee

I don't think normal pc users like myself are able to determine what they can acess or not, or any other program for that matter. Windows media went into my music folders and made all my files into WMA. I didn't tell it to do that.

Brother Slowly ... i agree, and with that being the case ... that most normal pc users aren't able to determine what's really going on ... we should all understand, that when downloading programs to our pcs, we stand the risk of them seeing all we have on our machines, and doing whatever they want while they're there.

There is very little "free" ... even though they claim to be. Oftentimes "free" downloads subsidize themselves by including other programs, within the program, actually loading them to your machine as well, in order to pay for the "free." These other programs run freely on your computer, oftentimes without you even being aware that they are there. They pay the "free" software providers for this service, so you can have access to "free" stuff.

Just food for thought.

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Destee

Family ... once you give these programs access to your computer, how are you able to determine that they are doing only what they say they do, going only where you allow or direct them? Do you have access to the code, able to understand it all? If not, you're really just "trusting" the developers. Someone more knowledgeable than me, correct me if i'm wrong.
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DesteeNothing to "correct". But, heck; why sweat Limewire? All M$Products do it. All that "mainstream" malware "protection" does it. For that matter, ALL mainstream products do it. (On the other hand, "access to the code" is what "Open Source Software" is all about. And that is the bottom line reason that I do not use M$Products! ... However, I must still "trust" in the developers ... until I do the work of learning the various varieties of programming/scripting languages.)

It's all about "market research", "product improvement" and "troubleshooting"; all supposedly "good stuff", but just as invasive. In fact, it is through these avenues that all the "malware coders" get to "your" puter. (Yeah, "your" in quotes; as in "semi-quasi-your" puter. One does not buy software anymore; one "leases" .. regularly, repeatedly.)

On the rare occasions that I've installed XP (kinda sorta thinking about loading it up again .. maybe), I've gone down into "device manager" and noticed a bunch of "hidden" interfaces in the network adapters section. It truly looks to me as if there is a push toward making a lot of applications "network aware", whether that is desired by the end user or not. This, in conjunction with the "Web2.0" initiative's slant toward online word processing and such, enables/requires that everything one does is done over the internet with the ability of just anyone to capture the traffic coming out of "your" puter. And once captured, given all the knowledge available about how these apps format their data; it ain't no thing to read, modify, repost (or other nefarity) any bit of "your" data that one wants to play with.

If one wants privacy in this internet age; don't put it on "your" puter!! Once it gets past the keyboard, it's not really "your's" anymore!

I don't think normal pc users like myself are able to determine what they can acess or not, or any other program for that matter. Windows media went into my music folders and made all my files into WMA. I didn't tell it to do that.You didn't tell it not to.

Aye, the "default" settings will just automatically do stuff like this. Once upon a time, one was able to make changes through setup/options/preferences for most apps. I've noticed that the changes one can make anymore are getting fewer and fewer.

There should be an option to set how one wants music saved. Alternatively, use another media player. Yeah, I know: "This one came with my computer; why should I be bothered to search out and install something else? After all; this one was "free"." And that is exactly the consumer mentality that is being played to/on/against.

Good to see some questioning on these sorts of things. In what other arena do people so blindly trust "the man"?