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is limewire illegal?

i dunno

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Its 100% legal to install , and run. Lots of content on it is illegal but everyone does it. Probably every single song , movie (I mean real movie like Rocky for example) is illegal and lots of other stuff. There is child porn on lime wire. And there is lots of none illegal stuff too.

    There is a difference between downloaded a copyrighted song then child porn of course but technically they are both bad to do except I download lots of illegal stuff of the net. Not child porn though.

    NOTE: One thing for sure. Do not download from limewire unless you have a uptodate anti virus program and more preferably a good one like Norton or mcaffe. There is lots of Worms and viruses on limewire its normal not a big deal if you have an anti virus program and know what your doing.

  • 1 decade ago

    Probley The Software Isnt But When you Download Music Movies, It Would Be So, Do People Still Use LimeWire lol, Use Torrents Or News Servers You get Faster Speeds.

    Source(s): Im The Source
  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, in essence it is. You are massively sharing music/vids and etc, that are not paid for.

    It is illegal, but people have found Limewire, and some other famous ones, easy to use.

    -Not promoting it, just stating facts

  • 1 decade ago

    limewire is not illegal.. downloading copywrited content from any source is illegal. limewire is just a site. it is what people do with the downloads that is illegal.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Limewire is not in itself illegal, it is whayt you do with it that is illegal. It wouldn't be illegal if you downloaded limewire pro.

  • 1 decade ago

    Limewire is just a program, perfectly legal. Using it to download things which dont have the copright or license to download is, however, illgal.

  • Wabbit
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    It doesn't appear to me. However, it does seem a little scary to me. I believe in security and to do a p2p xfer through a third party is not what I'd call secure.

  • 1 decade ago

    yes but im here to talk about runescape what level are you and could you gimmi some stuff add me andysm-1992

    if you see me on a other question its a scam some one put my name up there

    Source(s): me
  • 1 decade ago

    yea kinda....

    if u want peer to peer, better to download wif BitTornado

    it's faster :p

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