I live in Dayton Ohio. 2 of my 4 local TV stations just reported about several people from our area being sued for downloading music. One of these people was using Limewire. This person is being sued by the National Association of Recording Artists for 70,000 !! She has only used Limewire and has downloaded a little over 6,000 songs. Needless to say, she is devastated! The reporter said this is happening more and more everyday and that the Recording Artists are generally setteling out of court for 3 to 4 thousand dollars. Do any of us have that kind of money lying around. This woman thought she was "protected" from any type of legal action because she had paid 18 dollars to limewire for their "pro" version. Not so. Beware !

She had to be either naive or stupid.


Shark Chum

What do you mean...naive or stupid? This woman was doing nothing more than all of us do. She was searching for songs she enjoyed and then downloading them to her computer. You got a bettewr way?
Lucky Dawg

Yea mm sharing over 6,000 songs u must be dum of course your dum in way of the world.Way in the world would you whant to share that many any way.In no i would not because there is a chance that you or i will get busted.

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It IS a P2P sharing program.
If it weren't for her and people like her, you wouldn't be getting the songs you want to download.

Xcom46...nowhere in the original post does it say she was sharing these files... Isn't downloading 6,000 songs enough? I mean, at the going rate of 1 dollar a song, that's...wait a minute...I think I've got it...$6,000!

Just because she is no different than you (so you say) doesn't mean that she wasn't stupid! I bet she just feels unlucky (like you or I would feel if we got busted).

If you break the law, you may get busted! Maybe not right away, but if you do it long enough or excessively enough, you will eventually get caught!

It's a risk we take if we download copywrited material...we all need to ask ourselves "how much is this worth to me...is it worth the risk?"

Just something to think about: at my local library, I can check out commercial films for free. FILE-SHARING? Looks like it to me. I hope my library doesn't get sued!

Dano

she was downloading and sharing over 6,000 copyright protected songs... of course she will get sued.

Using the library as an example is flawed logic.

In many cases libraries DO pay more for their initial copy of a book or movie because they are going to share it. However, comparing libraries with millions sharing copyrighted material for free without compensation to the artists/producers/etc. doesn't work.

As for Sure. It's called BUYING your music and movies. People have been doing it for decades. Only in the last few years did we somehow decide we were entitled to something for nothing.

As someone upthread said, you (don't) pay the price, you take your chances.

I don't feel all that sorry for the woman in Dayton. She got something for free (some 6000 songs). Now if she pays even half that much (assuming .99 cents per song for even the cheapest music legally) she got off easy right?

I was not aware of this. You say "In many cases"...in what cases do libraries pay more (or pay less)? What about books, movies, etc. that are donated to libraries?

Can you tell me where I can find out more?

Thanks

Dano

well, sucks for her