I need to prove to a prosecutor that Limewire's default sharing setting for downloaded videos is to share them. She claims, and the police also say that when Limewire is installed a person has to manually agree to share their files. I agree with this. Where we disagree is what the default setting is for someone who simply downloads a video to their default "download" folder. I am under the impression that this folder is automatically, by default, shared unless changed by the user. I need to know who is right? If I am right is there somewhere that states this? Also is it possible that this has changed from one verison of limewire to the next? My client maintains that he was not knowingly sharing any videos and evidently the default setting had him sharing anything he downloaded. Is he telling the truth? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

NHarvest

Unless one of the more experienced forum members say otherwise, and I have used LW for four of the past five years, LW has always shared downloads by default.

The last time I looked at LW there was a manual settings that allowed you to choose how much of your bandwidth, as a percentage, you wanted to reserve for uploading. If you wanted to turn off your LW's uploading you had to specifically do so and become a freeloader (a term of abuse given to users who would not share).

Anyway, here is a paragraph from the instructions for installing LW:And here is the URL for the Instructions: User Guide Installation - LimeWire

Now, if the authorities do not accept the on-line instructions as proof that LW's default setting is to share all it's downloaded files then the only thing you can do is demonstrate this by installing LW in front of these (sceptical) people.



UK Bob

Thank you. This should be helpful. I have also located various articles backing this up as well.