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How do people who download music illegally through Limewire or BearShare get caught?
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How do people who download music illegally through Limewire or BearShare get caught?

Or do they?


    




p0sitivepaul
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yes they do, i personally know 2 people who have. The internet companys are not monitoring everyones internet use, but when a person downloads massive amounts of music it shows up as a spike on their bandwidth and might be grounds to investigate that person.


Annonymous
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Like 1 in 1928579102951 people gets caught, but when they do, it's because they traced the file to their computer.

torrents ftw! xD


dumbo247
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they don't get caught. so many ppl do it, so dl away


Sassy
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Don't leave it in a shared file.


Joe
I've been doing it for a long time now and never heard of anyone gettin caught.


ßεlıηda <3
i downloaded a couple of songs from there but nothing happened but personally i dont find a thing wrong with free music


jibrilz
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by leaving the songs on their computer


The Oracle
ok so basically. u dont really get caught. its possibe but highly unlikey. limewire is legal software. that kinda does illegal things so youre ok. Now ive herd of people getting caught. but they literally have thousands of copied things. they download songs movies to the extremes. people pick up on this stuff. So unless you download 300,000 songs. 400 movies and so what. dont worry cuz u aint got nothen to worry about.


Chubbybuddy
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Usually if you share, I would never share. But I never download either so...


nameless
only if they are uploading ALOT of stuff... I have downloaded so much stuff and never got caught.


MZ.SEXY-TIME
NO THEY DONT......
NOT REALLY.....
=]] HI


♂♥♀ & ♀♥♂ ∞! Love Oh Love ! ♫♥♪
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They do, it is the sharing. I saw something on a woman who had to pay hundreds of thousand for sharing songs through one of these!

Would you plz check this out?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071209203533AALjiAT&r=w


Countrymanbigandrich
by uploading tons of music
or by bragging about it online too much:)


Helen
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Not for suree.

Been downloading for three years almost soo..

if that says something or not.


Manuel B
It has to be through the IP adress. The Gnutella network that Limeware and BearShare share pretty much announces the computer's IP address. Ask the provider afterworth who is using that IP address and boom, caught.


J☼E
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I have never done that.........I buy my music @Wal-Mart.com!
Or the cds.......I like everything in it's original package DVDs & all those things


fade_this_rally
by downloading so much and leaving them on their computer to be caught


tattooraven1
through their internet service providers. no matter what you do on a computer, you leave some sort of trace, especially if you do things online.
most people don't get caught.


Tee Dub
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they dont.....


x_xvengeance
I've never gotten caught and I've been doing it for 4 years. XD


Dyablo
Not really

who ever thumbs me down is a dumb /@ss my friends download illegaly all the time and they dont get never caught


tunez23
i personally think its just a myth that u get caught...but i heard a story of the FBI bustin into sum1z house and taking theyre computer


Lars
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They don't get caught. They just foul up there machines with spyware and viruses.


*me*
they don't get caught


Brooke
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no one gets caught if you download the simplest kind.


mental114
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The company that owns the copyright to the material you downloaded will obtain your IP address from Limewire. Then they call your ISP and get your personal info and sue your butt. Heres how to not get caught.....

1. Control yourself. Dont download whatever you can get illegally

2. Dont download the latest and greatest music, software, etc. Companies normally dont care very much about their old copyrighted stuff.

3. Once you download something, move it out of your 'shared' folder so that you are not distributing illegal material.


FiniteOxide
because they are smart enough to do something like download off of a unprotected wireless signal so someone can collect there data and use it against them in a lawsuit...





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