I was reading some Q&A because I am trying to understand this business of piracy and paying for music, ..I bought a membership to Limewire and was since informed that it really isn't legal....and then I read about a site called Ares downloads that are supposedly free also. Can some great person out there help me to understand why limewire can be in business if their members can be prosecuted for piracy, if in fact they can. (I know, can I get any more confusing? Sorry) I just bought an iPod shuffle. ;)
Limewire is being sued by the Recording Industry for facilitating copyright violation. Every company distributing P2P software has either adopted a legal business model that reimburses holders of copyright material, or gone out of business, except Limewire. This is only a matter of time - the Supreme Court has routinely sided with the RIAA, as it should.
Individuals that take advantage of the opportunities to steal with Limewire are not immune to prosecution, and are being successfuly prosecuted, fined, suspended from schools (where they use the schools' systems to steal the media,) and - when they buy the farm, consigned to the seventh circle of hell. To avoid all of this, make sure you do not engage in media piracy with Peer to Peer software.
You can download music and movies for your mfree ares download music moviesedia player from The Live Music Archive. This is a grass-roots driven site that distributes media with a private use license at no charge to anonymous users.
It's simple. Limewire is file sharing software and doesn't actually do anything illegal on its own. You could be sharing cookie recipes and pictures of your dog for all they know. It's the fact that 99.9999999% of the people using Limewire use it solely for pirating movies, music, and software that's illegal. Ares is no different.
If you want to fill your iPod you have exactly three legal options. One, buy cds and make your own mp3s from music you own. Two, subscribe to an online music service (iTunes, Napster, the hideous Zune Marketplace) and pay for the music that you download. Or lastly, look for music that has been released by the artists as free to share or is old enough to be in the public domain. That's it. Don't be fooled by the spammers promising you unlimited downloads for your iPod for $39.95. All you're doing is paying for filesharing software that you could have gotten for free and you still don't have the rights to legally get a thing from them.
Been here yet.
As far as legal free music downloads, Ruckus offers free music downloads with a college email address, thus to all college students. This is all of course included with DRM, so it's frfree ares download music moviesee as in free from cost, not free as in you can do what you want with it.
As far as Limewire, it is mostly illegal (file sharing in itself is not illegal, only when it's copyrighted material) regardless of if people are prosecuted or not. The reason it is still in business is mainly because people who use it are so numerous that it would be impossible to bring suits against all of them, and there is a relative amount of anonymity in doing so online.
Limewire isn't illegal - what's illegal is downloading copyrighted material. Any non-copyrighted material such as music in the public domain (i.e. classical music) is legal. New bands that want to spread their sound often offer non-copyrighted material for sharing.
Actually, Limewire itself has been sued for allowing its users to commit massive piracy. The case goes to court this summer, I believe. You can read some about it at as well as other similar articles.
Here are some articles on the subject of music piracy vs legal free music that may help you:
There is one place where I've downloaded a couple of free movies, not sure if they're quite your cup of tea though...
I suggest you take a peek at this short limewire review
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