It's very good that you are scared. Hopefully it will keep you away from this dangerous precipace forever. Please let it. By opening that door, you would not only harm your soul by opening yourself up to harmful behavior, you would ruin your life. You would be given a label you could never escape from that would cause your neighbors to hate and fear you. Thank you for seeing the danger for what it is, very real and please go and stay free of these things.

As I understand it Gnutella acts only as a mechanism to bring two users together. Then one user can down/up load files from their PC to the other. No note of IP addresses is made by either PC or the P2P such as Limewire.

I've read about efforts to make the P2P facilitator such as Limewire record the IP addresses but I understand they have failed so far. Once the transfer is complete no record exists that it even took place.

Am I incorrect?

not sure what you mean by record IP addys...there are plenty of gnutella clients besides LW that list IP addresses...

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Although I cannot argue with the feelings expressed here I'm afraid that some people posting here are speaking from a moral rather than from a legal standpoint.

This serves to unnecessarily scare those of us who downloaded by accident and erased. If you fit into this category quit worrying. The authorities are concentrating on uploaders. In the lower left hand of LimeWires screen is a option to view uploadable files. If these are free of CP then you are free to go about your business.

I understand. If you'll notice, my post was a response to someone who stated they did it on purpose, not by accident. The thing is, we have a sheriff a county over that is basically wiping the floor with people for this crime over and over, it seems like every few months there is a new story in the paper with 20 or so guys in deep doo-doo and I can't see how he differentiates between uploaders or downloaders, he looks for anyone and everyone that he can catch with evidence. So when I read this thread and all these guys, I get a little worried for them, not judgemental. I am worried that for such a dumb, thoughtless act they could face serious consequences. So, please excuse my prostelytizing, it's really only meant to be a danger flag. And I don't to plan to wave it again.