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nmsoccer20 September 26th, 2004 04:05 PM

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

Morgwen September 26th, 2004 04:11 PM

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

Bosnianheat26 October 1st, 2004 05:40 PM

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.

stief October 1st, 2004 07:47 PM

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.

Morgwen October 2nd, 2004 02:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Bosnianheat26
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.
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!

Quote:

But I don't think you can get caught, because you are not downloading the files off of a server.
Of coursed you can. Some people are caught already.

Morgwen

someonesomeone October 2nd, 2004 07:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Bosnianheat26
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.
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.


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