Labels want to freeze LimeWire's assets

Oh say it isn't so. Life without Limewire? How will I cope? Hahaha

not a fan of limewire but still, labels, riaa, directors,actors ,producers and whoever else is aginst us,in entertainment Fu%K YOU! you are all over paid pre madonna bitches. some of you may have tallent most of you do not. in fact 90-95% of you do not, so keep crying take down lime wire,if history repeats its self two more will take its place, take a look around everyone else in the working world has taken a pay cut due to the economics of the world what makes you so special,cause you think can play dead? until your pay goes way down and theater prices get to reality i will not stop using torrents,and will continue showing others how to use them as well not for payment,just so hollywood or music doesnt get the money either.

If I'm not mistaken this a a case of the american legal system going after a company in another country right? They have nothing to worry about.

Originally posted by hikaricor:

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If I'm not mistaken this a a case of the american legal system going after a company in another country right? They have nothing to worry about.

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limewire sucks quit using them almost as soon as they came around

the fact that limewire did not provide you with "quality" pirate content isn't really the point.
I think you'd agree that limewire enabled people to share in copyrighted material with handy file transfer and search features.
The problem is the law is black and white. Sometimes the law is 'tested' as in this case. But essentially this ruling says "a computer program that helps people share and search for copyrighted materiel is illegal"
so where do you draw the line? i can find illegal material with google, but it's safe to say that google makes more money from legitimate searches and is unlikley to be accussed of illegal behaviour.

I really like the torrent protocol. Its a great way for small companies and content providers to distribute large files economically (even large companies, like NIN).
It's also used as a transfer mechanism for copyrighted material.

None of here are going to miss limewire; but the same can't be said of bittorrent can it?

and if 99.9% of bittorrent is used for copyrighted file transfers...

i think bittorrent is ok for the moment since the protocol is open and out there (no 'head' to cut off. But what if a law came in forcing isp's to block bitorrent protocol. Yes, you can use ssh, yes you can 'change the ports'. But most people can't. And that 800kbs download of Heroes will suddenly drop to 56k or maybe disappear altoghter. Remember the early days of napster? an mp3 might take a few hours to come down...

What i'm saying is, don't look at limewire, look at what this ruling means, choose your vote carefully.

Vote? Both parties are in bed with the RIAA/MPAA/ETC...who are you going to vote for?

As for the law, I think the wording used makes windows illegal...but the wording does not seem to affect bittorrent...

"a computer program that helps people share and search for copyrighted materiel is illegal"

There is an "AND" there; if limewire did not have an internal search function, then it would be legal.

I agree....who cares?
Lot's of people getting busted using bit torrent too....Don't think you're safe or using that is a good idea...

Haven't used "virus central" for ages. Won't be a great loss IMO.

But as posted, according to the ruling any OS or IP and search engine is in breach which makes the law an ass (as if we didn't already know!).

Originally posted by magnets:

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The problem is the law is black and white. Sometimes the law is 'tested' as in this case. But essentially this ruling says "a computer program that helps people share and search for copyrighted materiel is illegal"

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Rofl...I bought Mechwarrior Mercenaries 4 and ended up downloading one of the disks off Bittorrent because it wouldn't install out of the box.

There are legitimate uses (at least I consider that legit...Activision probably disagrees).