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OK, so I am in the process of installing LimeWire on my computer. I heard you can get music off of it. There are a fewww songs I want that aren't available on iTunes so how would I use Limewire for that? Do you have to pay for the songs?
If not, isn't that illegal?
But, if you do have to pay, how do you go about that?
Tell me anything you think is important. Thanks!
Downloading things that you would normally have to pay for is illegal. Limewire itself is not. Buying the PRO version doesn't make downloading things legal.
It is very unlikely you will get caught downloading things illegally. Hundreds of thousands of people are not caught for every person who is. Don't worry too much about it. Your chance of getting caught is reduced if you keep Limewire running as little as possible, but the network works better when more people have Limewire running.
When you download things, you're downloading from other peoples' computers. The downloads are therefore not guaranteed to be safe, real, or virus-free. If you're not stupid, though, you will not ever get viruses. Here's my guide on not being stupid:
http://www.advicenators.com/talkaboutmetopic.php?t=645&userboard_id=38985
Running Limewire does not allow people to download arbitrary files on your computer. They can only download files which are in your shared folders. When you first install Limewire, nothing is in your shared folders. By default, everything you download is put in shared folders so that other people can download them from you.
Just keeping Limewire running without downloading anything will never give you viruses. You must actually download the viruses to be infected by them.
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