Does anybody know if anybody has actually ever been arrested for downloading music on LimeWire? My friend says that there have never been any arrests but with everything you hear all the time about this I can't believe there are no arrests from LimeWire music.
Can somebody just tell me the truth about this? If you download music on LimeWire will you get arrested?
orphans answered Friday March 5 2010, 7:41 pm: technically, no. Limewire software is legal. Its "intended" purpose is to share copyright free material. If you share copyrighted material, you are breaching copyright laws. Therefore, you are stealing. Cases have been dealt by the Federal Government, but these are usually the people who downloaded thousands of thousands of thousands of songs. [ orphans's advice column | Ask orphans A Question ]
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