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Old October 26th, 2005
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Well let me clarify then. If all I do is download without uploading or sharing, do I have any real reason to be scared of legal lawsuits? Have people who didn't upload ever been sued? Has anyone on limewire who doesn't upload ever been sued? Any answers would be helpful.
You are still liable to a law suit, as you are breaching copyright and contributing to piracy by downloading copyrighted material, and knowing it's copyrighted, for free.

They do however seem to prefer to sue the big file sharers who make a lot of music available to be downloaded from their systems.

No-one is completely safe, and there's nothing you can do about it. It is however very unlikely that the people they act on will be you. You are one of hundreds of thousands, or maybe even millions who use file sharing networks to distrbute copyrighted material illegally.

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I think I might just download it but keep it hidden and stuff because there's no way I can get sued so he'll never find out.
Think again.

The people who have already been sued didn't have people come round their house to view their computers.
The government agencies or music agencies only need to ask your ISP (Internet Service Provider) for access logs from your account. These logs show records of every single packet you have sent through their system, and a copyrighted music file is very easy to spot.

(They may regularly, randomly ask your ISP for this info of people who they think have been doing so.)

If you cant handle the possible (but very unlikely) consequences, DONT DO IT!
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