Is it illegal to use LimeWire to download music to put on your mp3 player or ipod?

Answer 1

Yes downloading copyrighted music is generally considered illegial because it is being 'distributed' In Canada it's not illegal. Using softwares like Limewire to download songs is illegal no matter which country unless or otherwise the music not copyrighted. What music is NOT copyrighted????????

Answer 2

Downloading song is NOT illegal. Most who people do download songs end up breaking the law, i will explain.

EXPLAINING THE LAW:

According to DMCA, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it is illegal to DISTRIBUTE, SALE, MANUFACTURE copyrighted material. It does not state that having copyright material in your possession is illegal.

How would they know if you paid for it or not?

Why People Get Caught?

People who use sites like Limewire, download music, movies, etc... The giver has now broken the law by sharing this materials with you. The reason you end up getting caught is because LIMEWIRE has a feature that enables your system to automatically share anything that have downloaded. This is where you break the law. Now you are a DISTRIBUTOR of copyrighted materials.

How not to break the law:

Limewire and other software program automatically enable the feature to share what you downloaded plus other items in your PC. You must find what your system is sharing and disable this feature within LIMEWIRE.

Example:

In recent News, a lady was sued to pay the records companies somewhere around 2 Millions Dollars. She is an idiot.. I read the full article. She was sued the first time for $220,000.00, during trial she was offered the option to settle for $3000 to $5000, she said NO, like 10 other people of the 30,000 active cases today. She thought she could fight breaking the law. So she lost the first case and ended up owing $220,000.

She went back and appealed the jurisdiction and the trial went back to court again, this time the records companies sued for 2.00 million dollars, however during the trial they offered to settle with her again and she turned the offer down a second time... She lost the trial again and now owes 2.00 million dollars to the records companies.

She got caught because the records company was able to successfully download music from her machine. They traced to her PC and her email account registered on the P2P software she was using.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,5272… (Read the story for yourself)

I do not advocate downloading music, because it does prevent you from purchasing music. But I do want to EDUCATE those who don't know the laws...

personally, I avoid downloading music because I would rather be safe than sorry

Answer 3

Most of the time it will be illegal. Many YouTube videos have a link so that you can legally buy the music if you want a copy.

Answer 4

Yes if the video is copyrighted by a record company.