Limewire pro
 

Is it legal to download music with the pro version?

The Pro version, like the free, may only be used to share authorized music, like the files that have a license, ones from www.magnetmix.com, or ones you know can be legally shared.

The scam sites advertise "100% legal" and people are often mislead by that. The software is legal, many of the files are legal, but a legal car doesn't mean you have the legal right to drive over people crossing the highway ;)

If you were scammed into thinking otherwise, see http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=28751

btw--don't think this is "legal" advice, and don't get your medical advice in a restaurant.

Legality of Downloads
 

As a lawyer, I offer you these weasel words:

It is no more illegal to download from LW Pro than from the regular version. It all depends on the license status of the file and can be a quite complicated question.

If a song is in the public domain, generally there's no problem but there may copyright issues for a particular artist's version. To insure legal downloads, when in doubt DON'T.

But if what you are really asking about is whether you might be the object of enforcement either by a govt unit or a music company, the odds would be very much in your favor.

You can check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_download which has useful information on the whole subject.

Re: Legality of Downloads
 

I always check a link I give in a post .. no one has actually contributed to this one it seems:)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_download

no comma helps

:You can still get sued by the RIAA/MPAA if you download and sharemore than a thousand plus files.


So, no, it is not legal to download even if you pay for the program. Its illigal to download/upload copyrighted material of any kind, except porn, you can dl all the porn you want for free, they dont seem to be concerned about that. :rolleyes