I was doing some research on a question I had on Limewire today, and I must say, everyone else is really giving Limewire too much crap.
Limewire by itself is NOT illegal. It's only a P2P (peer to peer (one computer to another)) program. ALL they do as a company is host files (well, not even that, because it's individual computers from users that do that). They even say on their forums -
"Only the upload in some countries the download of copyrighted material is illegal!"
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/open-discussion-topics/10963-limewire-illegal.html
Only downloading copyrighted material with Limewire is illegal. You should know if the file you are thinking about downloading is illegal or not by if it has a limewire logo next to it. If it doesn't, the file might contain viruses or spyware.
But, just to reinforce what I said before, simply having Limewire is NOT illegal. Using it to download anything that's copyrighted, IS illegal.
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