Newbie here,

But wanted to comment, what is the difference in hearing Free music on Yahoo, or going into a Music store, or even WallyMart and listening on the headgear, or for that matter. Video Stores owners get free screeners even before movies hit the rental shelves. And there free.

Its obvious that the motive behnd that is the all mighty dollar. But I doubt Yahoo WallyMart etc, are paying each time I put on a set of phones and listen to a new GreenDay song?

I see wya to much double standard here.

Cozmo

Ps copying and piracy I get .....but free listening ? Isnt that what AM Radios started doing over 50 years ago ?

How does greenleaf have that attatched to his WinMX files? I want to do that too...ya know as a precaution.

For me, i noticed many RIAA-sued is a sharer. As long i dont share the folder or file, then i get a low chance to sue by RIAA or a low chance for RIAA to see what i download.

I already disabled any sharing in Limewire, even i removed all the extension in Sharing option.

There a another tricks i use. I have two emtpy folder. For sharing, i use folder 1 (even the sharing is disabled). for downloading, i use folder 2. I know Limewire is very tricky with sharing. once in a while, i noticed my uploading was about 30KB, i see that i am sharing a file, even i already disable the sharing, and put file not to be shared. So i create folder 1 only for that. so far, my upload never got past 2KB. once in a while, it got to 1KB bu tthat it

Limewirer ----- I try to share my files and a meagre amount of knowledge on the Gnutella Network and on these forums, to the extent that I answered one of your posts earlier, and may well have uploaded files to you. Is it right that you should refuse to share on the network and still use it for your own needs? Or have I missunderstood your post?

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There's lots of non-infringing content to share, so there's no excuse for being a leech.

If someone doesn't want to share, then set up a really good connection to run 24/7 as an ultrapeer and share bandwidth. You can contribute 1 GB a day that way.

If neither of the above is an option, then such users should remove filesharing apps and join a newsgroup or something like that.

Sheesh. I hate leeches who rationalize. There's no excuse for not sharing.

IF you share the file, and it cpoyrighted, RIAA can sue you. so without the sharing the file, RIAA have no proves that i have the copyrighted file.

It's a pity that there are those who go on file SHARING networks who won't share any files. I'll keep this one short and say that if I had the hard drive space, I would more than likely share more than I do already. I can only share not much more than 100 files. And really, I do hate to have to delete some of them for drive space.

Thanks Stief, I concur most heartedly!

Even in the US I can legally share my own pictures
Or my friend's songs that he made himself
Or all the files from the Internet Archive
Or all the Creative Commons files
Or the files from www.magnetmix.com
Or all the other public domain files
Or many more

The RIAA, CRIA, MPAA, BSA, and all the other copyright cartels, do NOT control filesharing around the world (though they would be happy if you think so).

If you are in the US, time to visit http://www.eff.org/share/

Went to the magnetmix link and found some interesting stuff!

Thanks Stief.

Im sharing 800+ files, but if you ask me which of it is copyrighted and which is freeware I could not tell you because I just don't know how to tell. However I figure that is a small amount next to how many files the majority is sharing.

I honestly believe RIAA would be wasting their time looking at peers who share under 1k.