filesharing
By sparkster
@sparkster (181)
November 24, 2007 3:31pm CST
What are your views on filesharing applications like limewire and imesh and what do you make of torrent sites and trackers? I personally feel that there is a perfectly legitimate reason to use these programs and I will explain. If you go out and buy a cd or a game you will find that after time it will either become too damaged to use from surface scratches or you will lose it or it becomes accidentally broken. By going out and buying a legal copy of the product from a shop you have already paid for the legal right to own a copy of that product, all you are paying for is the mechanical copyright. If this happens, then shouldn't you be entitled to download it for free?
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@santuccie (3384)
• United States
24 Nov 07
Good question. Personally, I'd recommend you burn a backup copy of the actual CD, saving wear and tear on the original. The RIAA, FTC, and other agencies wouldn't have any beef with you that way.
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@sparkster (181)
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25 Nov 07
That's a good point but it's also possible that your backup copied may become lost or damaged or even stolen too. I think in this case you should be legally entitled to download them off a program like limewire. However, as a musician I am also concerned with protecting my own copyright.
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@santuccie (3384)
• United States
25 Nov 07
Oh, I wasn't talking about saving files on FTP. I was talking about searching for and downloading files like you would with LimeWire. Ever heard of RapidShare or Megaupload? You'll find all the same stuff here that you do on LimeWire, with fewer duds and full-speed downloading.
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@santuccie (3384)
• United States
25 Nov 07
Oops! Wrong forum. The great thing about using backup copies is this: If your backup CD gets lost or damaged, who cares? It only costs, like, 25 cents. Burn another one!
If you're concerned about losing both the backup and the original at once, why don't you create the ISO disc image, then upload it to Xdrive or something? Xdrive doesn't seem to impose a limit on file size; my 618 MB WinPE image is there, in my free account.
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@chunter (1759)
• Singapore
25 Nov 07
Fact is, who can say that is not against copyright laws?
Moreover, too many people are using them to download songs that they do not own...
P2P file sharing applications are 100% legitimate...Its the content and users who are sharing that may not be
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@sparkster (181)
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25 Nov 07
That's also a good point, but if somebody is considering going out to buy an album or a game, shouldn't they be entitled to download it to have a listen or test the game out first? Of course there are also major risks involved with the use of such applications and the networks become a digital playground for hackers and virus distributors.
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
25 Dec 07
I agree with you.
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There is yet another reason for Torrents. They are the primary source of distribution for the Linux Operating System. It allows the makers of Linux operating systems to keep costs down by keeping their bandwidth costs down, by using the bandwidth of it's users as they distribute their operating system to their peers while they download their own. The software is Open Source so there is no copyright issue involved.
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I am sure that Linux is not the only digital product distributed via Torrent and filesharing technology. They consider it bandwidth sharing.
