Yes it is if you are downloading any copyrighted materials without obtaining the rights to do so.
Owning and having such material on your hard disk is a criminal offense in many countries.
However, if you own a CD and convert those songs into mp3 then it is considered okay since you already bought the CD and are only backing up the songs in another format as long as you don't distribute it to your friends or over a P2P network.
Check with your local authorities on their website p2p movie sharing downloads programsor talk to them about it.
Not exactly.
There is nothing intrinsically illegal about either using Limewire or downloading music and movies.
What is illegal is downloading music and movies without the permission of the copyright holder. (And most movies and music on Limewhere are there without that permission.)
Technically the act of using Limewire/Kazaa/Morpheus or any other P2P file sharing system IS PERFECTLY LEGAL. However, the act of sharing copyrighted music is what the authoritiep2p movie sharing downloads programss will prosecute for, as you are allowing other users to download something which they should pay for, for free.
The act of downloading music which is being shared by other users, is illegal, however the authorities will prosecute those who are sharing a "significant amount of music" - like drugs they will go after the DEALERS not the USERS.
Very!!!!!!!!!!
downloading the movies and music is but having limewire is not illegal its just the stuff you get from it :)
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