<p>If I download songs off limewire will I get in trouble?</p>
<p>nope</p>
<p>10 char</p>
<p>Thanks but the website says otherwise so I wanna make sure :P</p>
<p>LimeWire is being sued by the recording industry. What you would be doing is a copyright violation. When Napster was doing this, the recording industry started going after persons who downloaded large numbers of songs in civil suits – almost all were settled and the downloaders usually had to pay and none won a case. UIUC’s policy is that students shall not engage activities that amount to copyright violations such as downloading “free” music. You can be disciplined if caught.</p>
<p>ignore that</p>
<p>Yeah but they just made overall network traffic a little more palatable.</p>
<p>Before you used to have only 750 megs within 24 hours (and thats BOTH ways on traffic… to and from) before you were rate limited to dial up speeds. Even if you were just watching movie trailers or yutube stuff (indeed… non academic but hey… it IS college) you could burn that up pretty quickly.</p>
<p>They now just this weekend changed it for 2000 megs (2 gigs) and after that you are rate limited to DSL speeds for another 3000 megs till a total of 5000 megs. After that its still faster-than-dial up 128kbps.</p>
<p>But yeah, dont forget… stealing is wrong.</p>
<p>If only downloading music WAS stealing…</p>