C-Net Promotes Song Stealing
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6 Oct 2007On the heels of the Minnesota woman getting tagged for $220,000 for sharing songs online, I had to laugh when I saw this little jewel. Now unless you know something I don’t know, not many people have ever downloaded and used Limewire for anything other than media piracy.
This can be disputed of course, but we all know it’s true. Tonight, I was browsing around and came across something funny on C-Net’s download page. It’s a blatant direction to download Limewire and use it to download MP3s.
I could be wrong here, but "Search for MP3 files with Limewire" doesn’t elude to only using it for songs that are free from copyright restriction. I would be willing to bet that is less than .01% of the music on Limewire anyway.
Not that I care of course, I just think it’s funny that the RIAA is going after little old moms and pops while major newsgroups, bit torrent services and more allow massively more piracy, and sites with the audience the size of C-Net even tell you what software you should use to steal them.
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4 Responses to C-Net Promotes Song Stealing
shrikee
October 7th, 2007 at 2:04 am
Limewire also opened, or is about to open, a music store as far as i know.
Tom Merritt
October 12th, 2007 at 9:27 am
See, that’s the problem with the whole antipiracy culture. You CAN download MP3s with Limewire, andthere’s nothing illegal about it. An MP3 is not by definition in violation of piracy. I think the idea that there are copyrighted MP3s out thereto steal is pretty well known. So much so that it would be fairly tedious to go through and delineate all the illegal things you can do with every program out there. Photoshop can be used to violate copyright too by editing copyrighted photos without permission. Audacity can be used to record music you don’t have the rights to. FTP programs can distribute MP3s illegally. So I don’t feel it’s encouraging peopleto pirate to say what a program does.
However, we don’t take piracy lightly and if you’ll view our video on using LimeWire you’ll see that we specifically instruct people on how to find legal video to download from Limewire. So we’re trying to do our part.
Cnet’s Tips for Legal File Sharing with Limewire
Cheers,
Tom Merritt
executive editor
CNET TV
http://www.cnettv.com/
Jason Burns
October 12th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Thanks for clarifying your position Tom.
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October 14th, 2007 at 10:01 am
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