What do you think is the best downloading program. legal or illegal like limewire?
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P2P software may be "legal" but most of the music distributed by such software is not legal.\n\nPlus there are the viruses transmitted by these programs, the poor quality of the tracks, and sometimes never being able to get a copy of the songs you're interested in.\n\nTwo years ago I discovered subscription music services which let you get almost any song you want and listen to it for as little as $5 a month.  I deleted all my downloaded tunes and went completely legit because it was so much better.  For as little as $10 a month, you can load up a portable player with thousands of songs (less than a penny a song a month) without buying them.  But you can buy tracks at discounted price too if you want.\n\nCheck out Yahoo Music Unlimited, Rhapsody, or Napster.
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The best legal way to download music has to be itunes, super fast downloads, really easy to set up, and tons to choose from. \n\nhttp://www.apple.com/itunes/
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It might be. But be wary. Limewire costs money to download, but the content has not been purchased by limewire and therefore all copywrited materials are illegal to download.
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I have to agree there are other programs out there but limewire is one of the best and easiest to use\n\nLet me also add that we tried using www.bearshare.com but it caused a lot of problems on my computer. However I have heard of people using it and loving it
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limewire........it isn't illegal unless you makes cd's!! if it's totally illegal why is it there?\n              \nif you want it free go to BASIC NOT PRO!
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Even though its illegal there is one place my friend downloads from. One thing for sure, dont use Limewire!!! A lot of my friends have problems with it does have adware and spyware. Bitcomet is the sites my friends download from. It may be slower than limewire, but they havent had a problem yet. Really myself I would wait three months for it to come to DvD. Hope this helps.
1080691
To download just about anything i would suggest www.limewire.com its not like all the other file share programs. Its Really Great.!!!
610755
Limewire is a file-sharing program.  illegal, but many people still use it.\n\nMusic can be downloaded from it
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yes, limewire's apparently the most popular. careful with kazaa - it's riddled with viruses. so i've been told.
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Yes, both are true, it is legal as well as illegal, legal on the sense that, it is filesharing and filesharing is not a crime, illegal on the sense that, you are sharing the stuff which are you not supposed to share.\nThe best way is to keep all the downloaded stuff to another destination other than your shared folder, cuz when YOU give some content, then YOU are violating the law, but when you are downloading it, you are not violating the law, cuz stuffs like music can be given but not shared. Confused right???\nDont worry, just remember that keep all your downloaded stuff away from the shared folder, so that others canot take it.\nCHEERS!!!
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Limewire's Legality:\n\nLimewire and other file sharing software is legal. Using it to upload or download copyright protected media - music, videos, images, software - without the copyright holder's consent is illegal because it is theft. \n\nHere are more opinions and tips: \n\n\nLimewire says its legal because technically its just a "file sharing" service and it is not held responsible for the files that are downloaded onto the system. Only the users are responsible. That's why when you download songs from Limewire, it's legal for them, but NOT for you. \n\nIf you are not paying some sort of fee to download, it is illegal. \n\nDon't be fooled by the fee you pay to use the pro version of Limewire. The artists of the songs you download don't get a penny of that! ("LimeWire offers two versions of the software: LimeWire Basic which is free of charge; the other is LimeWire PRO which costs a small fee, features faster download speeds and better search results, including up to 6 months of free updates and customer support via email.") \n\nEven if you download a coyrighted song for your own personal use, it's still illegal. Perhaps one could skate around the issue if they already own a legal copy on a CD, but then why download it if that's the case. Any fees paid to Limewire are for purchasing the software and that's it. \n\nLime Wire is not illegal software. All it is is file sharring. However many people abuse this by sharing songs without the copyright. For example if you have produced a song, then share it on Limewire, anyone else can legaly have it for free. But when you haven't made it, but an artist has, who has copyright on that song (which they all do) downloading that song without permission from the producer, it is totaly illegal. \n\nBasically, yes, downloadig music from any free service is probably illegal. You may be paying Limewire for the software, but that's just for the software, so the money goes to Limewire, you are not paying for the song. To be safe, do not download music for free. If it's free, nobody has paid the artist. \n\nDownloading songs and other copyrighted material is illegal, but if you wanted to share a music file of you singing or playing an instrument, then that is perfectly legal. \n\nLIMEWIRE IS ILLEGAL! Although with Limewire you will probably never get caught, if you even bring your computer in for a repair and a worker sees the program or any music you downloaded from Limewire, he is ordered BY LAW to tell his boss, and you will get a fine (I had to pay like 200 dollars.) It's not pretty. Although we all want Limewire to be legal, it isn't. \n\nThe Limewire software itself is not illegal - that is why the site is still up and why you can still download it. However - if you donwload a song from the program and you do not pay copyright on it then that is illegal. Songs from the 1950's or before are legal to download because their copyright has expired. Anything from after that is illegal to download. However - you are all going to do it anyway so this just makes you aware! \n\nDownloading songs on limewire is illegal and always has been. However, as for the legality of the program itself, its confusing. The program is legal, but I believe I read somewhere that the supreme court recently ruled that file sharing services can be held accountable for sharing music. \n\nIs Limewire illegal? No It is not. It CAN'T leagally be held accountable for what it's users do. Let's put it like this. A major virus takes out the whole internet. But when they trace the source, it leads to runescape servers for example. Runescape is an online game that gives its users access to its servers, kind of like limewire. Now are the people owning runescape responsible? Nope, but its users ARE. Same thing with limewire. My advice to you, do not use it to access "free" music, or "free" programs...images...and so o
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bittorrent\n\na lot of people say limewire, \nbut its not
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The limewire website itself is not illegal, nor is it illegal to download Limewire.  It is, however, illegal to use the Limewire program to download copyright-protected materials.
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Limewire is cool, just remember to disconnect before closing the programme especially if you have broadband.\n\nI would avoid  Kazaa, I found that to be a pain in the as…\n\nR :)
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Limewire. It miiiight be illegal in some cases, but just be sneaky. www.limewire.com ..? or just check it up on yahoo.\n\nfree download.
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Limewire is illegal under certain circumstances. I.E. When you download songs that don't have a license. But if you pay for the service (my friend says it costs a dollar a year), then it is legal. Most songs don't have a license so mostly everything you download will be illegal (I have never seen a legal download on it but there are some out there). But if you use it download your song(s) and then sign off as soon as your through that way it will be hard to track. Good luck!
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To me the best is Limewire Pro.\n\nhttp://www.limewire.com/english/content/home.shtml