limewire -anybody heard of this /use it ??

[Matt1eD]

yeah, fast good, easy to use. I like it. Of course I don't inspect each data packet and see what's inside.. but no blatent sypware.

[jackass]

so am i running a risk of being nicked using this software ????

[Matt1eD]

only if you download stuff that you're not ??alowd/aloud?? to (I won't say copyrighted as everything is - you're just sometimes allowed to share it). Think of it like this - you accidentaly shared some stuff on your HDD and something automatically downloaded.

[RoGuE|SaBeR]

The arguement about the RIAA going for the source doesn't really hold.

They do have a real reason for targeting P2P users because they are the ones that would have previously bought the material goods in the shop. I'm not saying the RIAA couldn't give a fiddlers about pirate groups but I'm sure they would care a great deal less if the general public was still buying records.

[weebroonieuk]

i doubt it they would still want every penny they could get

and without piracy groups or pirates there is no piracy ?!?!?

[Twigman]

yeah but they are a bit underground and hard to penetrate...
Easier to stop the much larger but more open commin user group and do some high profile court cases to try and pursuade most people to stop it.

[JK Ferret]

its fast to download, although about 1 in 10 times (i've found) it downloads you corrupted files.

[Matt1eD]

It warns if you're downloading corrupted files. (certainly the legal music and films I download).

[directhex]

so am i running a risk of being nicked using this software ????

yes, very much so.

[JK Ferret]

It warns if you're downloading corrupted files. (certainly the legal music and films I download).

Yeah. But sometimes (with me anyway), it doesnt.
either that or my computer is mucked up

[5lab]

its much better at finding rare-ish files than any other client that i know of at the momnet, but for popular files bittorrent is still the daddy

[directhex]

http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive.../msg00125.html

that is NOT an isolated example. ISPs get literally hundreds of copyright infringement notices a week about their users - the notices include times, dates, IP addresses, and breakdowns of the files and networks in question. most ISPS simply ignore them, but that doesn't mean they're not there.

we had about seven issued against our house whilst i was at uni.

you are NOT anonymous on the internet

and the MPAA, RIAA, IFPI, BPI or whoever ARE hunting for you

if you don't want to run the VERY real risk of getting sued, then don't pirate stuff.

[5lab]

personally i'd say the risk isnt very high - i think in this country that only 2, maybe 3 people have been successfully prosocuted.. out of 3 or 4 million users, i'll take them odds.

[MD]

well I know of 6 people to have been done in the last year, its just because all of them settled before court you hear nothing about it, the average fine for the 6 totals £4,800, personally Ill not be a part of those statistics.

m@

[Agent]

A very close friend of mine recently got nailed.
He got off on a technicality, but he was looking at about £4000 if he was to settle out of court.

Its a very real threat.

[Matt1eD]

*Matt1eD instantly burns his HDD then places in acid and runs to Cuba*