hi, i have had alot of friends tell me about this limewire, and they have said its safe and its free and stuff. so i tryed it, i downloaded the free version 2 days ago, and it works great. ive downloaded like 11 songs to my mp3 player. but then this guy told me if they trace my computer, they will charge me 3,000$ per song!? i must know in what ways this is illegal/legal i am but a kid of 14 and do not wish to brake the law/ be in dept for the rest of my life and im scared to death please explain if what im doing is illegal and going to get me into serious trouble if so i shall uninstall it immediatly. All ive done with it/plan to ever do is search certain songs, download them and save them in my windows media, and then sync them to my mp3 player is this illegal, please explain im just freaking scared to death.

thanks
blake

oops sorry i didint mean to post this twice it, something happened and it didnt seem to post first time im very sorry.

Very hard to say actually. Depending on the country you live in, something like this may happen. The chances are extremely slim, but they are there. There have been a few lawsuits/cases and one of them ended up with the defendant having to pay over $9.000 per song for 24 songs (about $220.000).

By the way this was for downloads kept in the share folder on Kazaa file sharing program, and the defendant had way more than 24 songs in the share folder.

This is in the US of course. Where else would the government let the record industry dictate what is illegal or not. Also they didn't even have proof that anyone had even downloaded from her. Yes, her. A single mother of two that had enough trouble getting ends to meet even before this.

TG Daily - Single mother loses big in music piracy case

thank you Sleepless, if there is a tiny chance of that happening i will uninstall this, i dont want a single chance like that happening thanks again

listen the only time u get sued is if u got like 1000 songs otherwise dont worry. also the reason its illeagal is cause thier shared music files .

I share over 7,000 files. I share music, videos & other types of files.

If people did not share files, there would not be anything to download. This is peer to peer = person to person file sharing.

That is the fact .Until we keep the folders of music with us

and never ever let it shared...there wouldn't be a world of music

currently existing.Thanks there for peer to peer communication.