P2P will always be legal as long as the RIAA lobbyists pig dogs are fought!
*racks down the vitriolic down a notch*
Yes, Limewire is legal. P2P in itself is not illegal (yet) in the eyes of the law because it has significant non copyright infringing uses. What would make a P2P service is how they choose implement it, whether they consciously make the decision to infringe on copyrights.
<!--QuoteBegin-CommunistWithAGun+Feb 26 2005, 04:40 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CommunistWithAGun @ Feb 26 2005, 04:40 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> i dont understand why they try to stop the underground when its like swatting flies with a fork <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I actually did that once. I was at a barbecue at the park with friends and family, and a fly kept trying to get my burger, so I hit it with a plastic fork. I was impressed.
And yea, nobody will ever eliminate piracy, and P2P software such as Limewire offers a lot more than piracy stuff, so yea...
P2P can't be forbidden as a concept. That'd be like shutting down the internet because there's warez on it. Or like forbidding CD-writers because people can use them to copy CDs. It's just too broad.
<!--QuoteBegin-ZeroByte+Feb 26 2005, 02:49 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ZeroByte @ Feb 26 2005, 02:49 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> P2P will always be legal as long as the RIAA lobbyists pig dogs are fought! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> pig dogs...*chuckle*
<!--QuoteBegin-lolfighter+Feb 26 2005, 06:03 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (lolfighter @ Feb 26 2005, 06:03 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> P2P can't be forbidden as a concept. That'd be like shutting down the internet because there's warez on it. Or like forbidding CD-writers because people can use them to copy CDs. It's just too broad. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I think it is possible that they'd seek to illegalize bit torrent technology, because I doubt the MPAA or the RIAA would agree that its uses outweigh the (imagined?) headaches it gives them.
Of course, this would be a huge step backwards; but I think we can agree that we have all seen crazier things before . . .
<!--QuoteBegin-Caboose+Feb 26 2005, 05:46 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Caboose @ Feb 26 2005, 05:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-CommunistWithAGun+Feb 26 2005, 04:40 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CommunistWithAGun @ Feb 26 2005, 04:40 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> i dont understand why they try to stop the underground when its like swatting flies with a fork <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> I actually did that once. I was at a barbecue at the park with friends and family, and a fly kept trying to get my burger, so I hit it with a plastic fork. I was impressed. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Not to take this thread <i>too</i> off-topic, but this one time at work, there was a fly buzzing around my head, being really annoying. In my hand was a knife. When he landed on the cutting board in front of me, I absentmindedly stabbed the knife down and skewered him. It was an accident but it still rocked pretty hard.
<!--QuoteBegin-Sky+Feb 26 2005, 04:31 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Sky @ Feb 26 2005, 04:31 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Is LimeWire legal? And if it is, what sets it apart from other p2p programs which you have to pay for? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I dont think there is any mad spyware like other P2P programs. Not that I've seen, anyways, or read anywhere.
Just ignore the RIAA, they're a bunch of 500 pound, pony tail wearing, live-in-their-moms-basement-at-33, ********ers. They're just riding the downfall of P2P (It really is dying in droves.) and trying to make a quick grand.
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*racks down the vitriolic down a notch*
Yes, Limewire is legal. P2P in itself is not illegal (yet) in the eyes of the law because it has significant non copyright infringing uses. What would make a P2P service is how they choose implement it, whether they consciously make the decision to infringe on copyrights.
I actually did that once. I was at a barbecue at the park with friends and family, and a fly kept trying to get my burger, so I hit it with a plastic fork. I was impressed.
And yea, nobody will ever eliminate piracy, and P2P software such as Limewire offers a lot more than piracy stuff, so yea...
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pig dogs...*chuckle*
I think it is possible that they'd seek to illegalize bit torrent technology, because I doubt the MPAA or the RIAA would agree that its uses outweigh the (imagined?) headaches it gives them.
Of course, this would be a huge step backwards; but I think we can agree that we have all seen crazier things before . . .
I actually did that once. I was at a barbecue at the park with friends and family, and a fly kept trying to get my burger, so I hit it with a plastic fork. I was impressed. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Not to take this thread <i>too</i> off-topic, but this one time at work, there was a fly buzzing around my head, being really annoying. In my hand was a knife. When he landed on the cutting board in front of me, I absentmindedly stabbed the knife down and skewered him. It was an accident but it still rocked pretty hard.
I dont think there is any mad spyware like other P2P programs. Not that I've seen, anyways, or read anywhere.
If you want a good distribution meathod of single tihngs. Use BT
If you wana good net work for sharing masive amounts of different files with lots of poeple, use DC.
If you wana infect your computer with every known malware, use Kazaa.