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Hi I heard from my friend that limewire supposedly, or something like that sue few hundred people like every week or atleast something like that. I was wondering if its true and what you guys think about illegal download and etc.

Just like that big starwars thing before the movie even came out hundreds of people had starwars in there comp.

awww fark everyone... illegal downloading.... dont bands get enough money from there music? and movies.... even if a few people downloaded harry potter. it still made like 40 million dollars the first day. starwars, probably the same thing, people might have downloaded but they still make lotsa money because people still wanna see it on big screen. i download music. not movies just music. i use limewire and nuttin happening.

Ya i agree, all though i dont dl cracked programs or movies or music. They people make enough money they shouldnt cry about it. Bunch of greedy pigs...

i dont dl cracked programs either, only music.. but the only reason for that is so i dont gotta farking buy 99 cents a song from itunes for my ipod. they are so farked up. 99 cents a song...

Well they do get a lot of money but by downloading you are basically stealing their credit of the song and etc. Apparently in Canada you are allowed to download because the judge said it was like the same as borrowing a book from the library. My tech teacher said that is was apparently not illegal to download but illegal to upload files for others to download.

I dl cracked programs all the time. I think that the most anyone should have to pay for software is 40 or 50 dollars.

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Yeah I download stuff, never saw anything wrong with that. It will never be stopped.

Programs don't cost much for a company to put on a CD, what could it be? $2.00 tops to copy the CD? Some people who are technologically retarded will buy it and they will get some money.

It costs a company to make a program but they get their money back pretty quickly and make some money on top of that.

People get screwed over all the time like today I stole an apple.

What I think is weird is that the two main costs that jack up a CD's prices are Advertising the CD, and the case. And itunes dollar songs are still WAY overpriced. The sad thing is that most of the money made by selling music does not go to the people who produce the music. You can get lucky to sign a contract with a recording studio to make 25% of your profits. The corporate function of the music industry is screwing everyone.

Thats just for music though, sorry for being off topic.

I saw a funny chappelles episode on this. (i think it was chappelles show). But anyway the narrorator guy goes. see this yound rapper all he wants for his birthday is his own (something really really really expensive*) but insteall he will get is (something really really expensive*) So dont download music.

*= i forget the item

eh it was probly funny if u saw it...

I dowloaded the cracked Lime wire pro i sue it to dl music not movies...not liek it hurts anyone the most ive ever seen on a song dl was like 82 thats not alot cuase i also BUY the albums...there a bunch of greedy pigs

Yeah, it's legal in Canada. I basically pirated everything I have, every version of windows I've ever used, all my ps2 games, all my computer games, an applications, movies, music. like 50gbs+ worth of priated stuff.

wow so you dl or bought illegal shiz?

lol that wasnt chappelles that was South Park, i saw that one. and Cartman starts a christian rock band. it was funny

Here's the way I see it: if you download a few songs just so you can listen to them, how different is it from taping a song off the radio? Why should that be considered illegal? It should only be illegal if you spread it or intend to sell it for your own profit.

my aunt told me that its not illegal to download the music but it is illegal to share it and spread it accross the net.

sup i can dl this shiz fo free at warez it not bad very good and fast

The problem is, programs like LimeWire share files automaticly. Even when I disabled mine it kept reenabling it.

DONT use Itunes Store. It reduces the quality of the file to have it more compressed. It is not worth it.

Well i think that downloading isnt illigal... for the music they play it on the radio.... you just record that and put it on your computer its the same thing as downloading... except downloading is easier. For those expensive programs like Photoshop... seriously it costs hundreds of dollars people like us(middle class) cannot afford to buy that kind of stuff for a program. And for the movies well... im kinna neutral on the movie part. its the same concept with the music.

itunes cost .99 .... you already paid for your ipod you deserve free music!

All my movies I buy for the exception of a few that I just want to watch it once then delete. All the movies I've seen in movie theaters and I think is good I buy the real DVD of it.

DL and burn it.

I DL shiz all the time, it's my little way of sticking it to the man.

It's illegial to share files in Canada, but not to download files. How funny.

I download stuff all the time, I don't feel like paying 60-80 bucks a game thats going to eventually sit on the shelf. However if a game is reasonably priced I'll buy it (example DOD:S and CS:S each cost me 20) I don't buy any new cds simply because the music being put out today isn't worth buying.

well if the music today isnt worth buying then why is it worth downloading?