Why is this in debate? Good question Nicki.

Moved to technology.

And I use LimeWire, and I have been for awhile and I haven't had any problems, thank goodness.

I used to use Limewire but after reading about how some girl got fined or sued (one of those) because it was illegal, I deleted it. itunes?

*runs to ireland*

Limewire's not illegal, most of the sharing that goes on through limewire is illegal. The program itself is perfectly fine. Your chances of getting busted through limewire are pretty slim unless you're on a college campus, though. The RIAA is full of shit.

Read this: http://consumerist.com/368663/riaa-pockets...-were-infringed

since so many people download no one will ever catch everyone. the people most responsible are the ones who post thousands of songs, album rips online for free.

lmao wow what a f**ken joke. f**king riaa. i hope they get sued badly. oh the irony.

i wonder if the mpaa are the same thing. do they give their lawsuit money that they won to the movies that were involved in the case?

i see you nicki.

Anything found free online is basically a virus.
Good luck.

LIAR!

Fiction.

I've downloaded countless programs, including my treasured Photoshop, and my computer doesn't seem to be affected too badly. The "virus" loves me.

Not really...there's a lot of bad things out there but that's only a fraction of the free things online. 99% of the things on my computer are free and I haven't had any problems, except once. Although, I did pay for a couple songs. But only 'cause I had a gift card.

That's not true.

Actually, if you're "sharing" files, then you're more likely to get caught. Although this might not be the case for bitorrent (not sure though), since you're sharing parts of files.

I've never used Limewire, but my bf did a few times. He never got caught. We usually use bittorrent to download stuff (programs, drama, anime), but I also use irc often whenever I can. When I'm at school and I can't use bitorrent, I can still use IRC as that's a "chat", even though I send and receive files.

Also if you need music, there's so many other ways to get it through direct downloads. I get all my songs for free through direct downloads and I have never gotten a virus. It's not thaqt difficult, I mean I found things through google and such. You can get all mainstream and older music somehow, as it is available without having to download programs or pay any fees. I'm not going to tell you where, but I'm saying that it's out there. Granted, there is a chance you could get viruses, so use common sense and don't download from shady websites. kthx.


lmao @ "anything found online is basically a virus."
Oh yea, so when I downloaded iTunes (free), it contained a virus that has turned my computer into a giant brick. I mean, seriously, what kind of BS is that?

Torrents.

I use www.torrentreactor.com

And there is Pirates Bay.

i thought torrents were like, infested with viruses??

Only if you download crap and pr0n... I haven't gotten a virus from it yet, as I need it for my Mongolian Asian dramas.

"Music is everybody's possession. It's only the publishers who think people own it." - John Lennon.

So download illegally out the wazooie. But just remember that musicians need to eat. So be nice and don't rip off the little guys and struggling indie bands. If nobody paid for music all the time, it'd be almost impossible for musicians to be musicians. Bands hardly make any money touring either, unless they're really big.

But if you don't want to pay for the CD of someone who's dead or someone who has a multi-million dollar mansion, then it'd be a good idea to just not pay.

Bittorrent ftw. Its much safer than limewire.

Well you can't really say that something is "much more safer." It depends on how you use it, that's all. Although I think some crap came in when my boyfriend's brother downloaded music on limewire.

I have never used bittorrent for music. Heck, I don't even need any programs for music. You can get almost any song (besides indie songs and maybe those Myspace songs and a couple of other stuff) from direct downloads if you know where to look. That's all I'm saying in regards to music.

People tend to use torrents for larger files, aka pirated films, programs, etc.

yeah torrent is good for big files and limewire for music.

uhh no...

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F*ck RIAA. Lars Ulrich is going to sue.

wow, i thought those days were over..
but yeah, request it on some forum and download the whole album of mega upload or some other host

Question: Can the RIAA catch me on downloading Asian music?

I'm too lazy to go look it up.

Only if you put up a server which holds archives such as music/movies and you let people download off of you.

I'm pretty sure you're just as susceptible uploading through torrents. It's pretty easy for internet providers to try to interfere with your illegal activities by capping you if you're uploading/downloading too much through torrents.

There's no way you're going to get caught for using limewire a few times, though, unless you're downloading or something by asshats like that.


Pirate Bay sucks. Private trackers ftw.

What do you mean by "capping"? Capping is only a limitation of speed/bandwidth. And if that was the case, then call in as an irate customer, and demand that they bump up the decibels on both upstream and downstream or you'll simply close the account and go with their competitors service.

Plus torrents are a thing of the past. Private newsgroups and private blogs are the best, download truly at 8mbps+. In my case sometimes I hit 18mbps (18,000kbps) on private newsgroups.

That is what I mean by capping, and I don't know if it's a universal issue, but comcast does it and more than likely would not raise it because of the torrent thing (I'd site what I mean, but the search function doesn't work on the site where I found the article). Saying you'll change to another service is great and all if there are in fact other options, but in a lot of places there aren't.

Hmmm... funny I use comcast. I noticed I was only gettin 5mbps. I called them, told them I have latency issues and I need to have the upstream/downstream decibels bumped up. They say they couldn't, I asked to speak to a tier 2 technician. Told the technician they must raise the bandwidth or I'm closing the account (which consist of On demand/HD channels and internet) and switching to Bellsouth (durin that time). That did the trick and bumped up the cap, way over the normal residential cap.

Well, I'm on school internet, where I haven't had a problem yet but have absolutely not control over anything. I'll try that if I run into a problem at home, though. Not that threatening to switch to Bellsouth has made them sort out our phone issues yet, but whatever.

Lmao the only way your gonna get viruses on Limewire is if you download pr0n, applications, and wmas.

MP3 for me have been perfectly fine for 4-5 years now.

You guys should just get soulseek.. you can easily avoid headaches and not worry about file types and malicious files -.-

Last semester I built my own file sharing software. It was awesome -- fully distributed, so there was no central server, and encrypted with 128-bit encryption. It used a combination of public key encryption and symmetric key encryption, like SSH. I used it for research on distributed networking protocols, but some people actually used it for "real" purposes. We never completely finished it, but source code is available.

torrents are so slow... I use limwire for music and torrents for movies, programs etc, oo and torrents have more viruses than limewire just to let you know, but again your antivirus system can recognize pefectly normal files as viruses, like keygens :]

Well for torrents, depends on what you're downloading. If you're downloading pr0n or from some shady website, then that's pretty much the risk you'd be taking on yourself.


Nicki - we don't get "capped" or whatever it is. And well, from all the torrents that my bf and I have d/led, we haven't gotten a virus from any yet. But I know just from songs d/led form limewire, there was a virus that was d/led as well with the song -- well we didn't d/l the song, more like his brother did when we weren't home, lol. So really it depends on a case-by-case basis, I guess.

But I'm going to say this one last time: It's not even that difficult to find any song that you need want through DDLs (direct downloads), as long as you know where to look. And the speeds can be even faster as well.