why is this legal?
 

Can someone show me the link to the page that explains why this is legal? Or can someone tell me?

Limewire itself is legal. Its not fornbidden to share "legal" files. nobody said you are allowed to download copyrithed files when you use Limewire.

Morgwen

From what I've heard so far, Limewire is completely legal. Because you are sharing with peers, and apparantly that isn't illegal. I couldn't find any links where it explains that it is illegal though. But I don't think you can get caught, because you are not downloading the files off of a server.

links?
 

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has the best collection of links about the legalities concerning filesharing in the US
for example, here is a link to the recent (Sept 2004) advice to the makers of filesharing programs
http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/p2p_copyright_wp.php

For Canadians, http://www.canfli.org/modules.php?op...q=yes&id_cat=2 is the best guide I've found to filesharing issues

LimeWire itself has this page http://www.limewire.com/english/content/ftc.shtml

Short answer? It's legal as long as you don't use it for anything illegal, and lobbies are daily trying to get control of filesharing.

Its not true. It doesn´t matter if you are downloading them from servers or from peers. As long none of the sources has a license to offer the files it its illegal!

Of coursed you can. Some people are caught already.

Morgwen

Unless you live it Canada, this isn't true. And yes you can get caught. I'm not sure how well a firewall will protect you.