ohh man,

i have been in file sharing for years now, and after about 5 years i got a letter in the mail with with lots of big legal words but actually saying:

we know you share and distribute copyrighted files, stop doing so or we will seu you. but that was with mIRC.

with P2P you don't have to worry about a thing, you can share even without being seud, since the P2P network is so vast and large, it's almost and i repeat almost impossible to seu everybody and in that it means anybody.

the only real way of seuing you is to get a court order to search your house and your pc, for stuff on it, if your house or computer contains any material that is copyrighted and is not paid for IE downloaded of the net trough non-legal methods, that being P2P or IRC or newsgroups or any other method out there, you can be seud, but no government will spend money on that because it costs them more money to collect evidence against you then what it will bring up, 1 down a billion others to go, just don't worry.

but to be absolutely safe and to calm your paranoid self, don't download anything from P2P networks, Newsgroups, IRC, or any other method that's not intended by the publisher of the file, movie, music, writhing etc. etc. to be the choosen method of selling the thing in question, then don't. so just go to the store and BUY whatever you want, or just relax and wait for your first warning wich i'm sure will never come.

also it's smart not to use a global nickname, meaning, to repeat using the same nickname in several community's, like on this forum, use anotherone for another forum or a game or whatever. also try ip hiders etc. etc.

nah man about that last paragraph i'm just kidding there :P

hope this helps and calms your paranoid soul