C-Net Responds to Limewire Commentary

Tom Merritt was nice enough to respond to my article about Limewire, while I still contend that nobody really uses P2P tools to find non-copyrighted music, here is his response and a link that provides more information on C-Net’s anti-piracy stance.

See, that’s the problem with the whole antipiracy culture. You CAN download MP3s with Limewire, and there’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.

Using Limewire Legally

Cheers,

Tom Merritt
executive editor
CNET TV
http://www.cnettv.com/

Thanks for the response Tom, I am a big fan of C-Net and do not discount your position, I just call them like I see them

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