The penalties for this can be rather stiff. A mid-western church years ago was fined $1 Million dollars (USD) for copying copyrighted music to use for their church choir. That action made lots of other churches think twice before churning out copied music for their own libraries.
The purpose of the copyright is pretty clear ... it is meant to protect the writers best interests ... this is how they make a living, feed and clothe their families - that is their right, and most people respect that.
In the United States, anyone found to have infringed a copyrighted work may be liable for statutory damages up to $30,000 for each work infringed and, if willful infringement is proven by the copyright owner, that amount may be increased up to $150,000 for each work infringed. In addition, an infringer of a work may also be liable for the attorney's fees incurred by the copyright owner to enforce his or her rights
In most cases, if you explain to the rightsholder that it was a mistake, and immediately destroy the offending material, they'll accept that. Unfortunately there are a few rightsholders out there who would probably sue you anyway, just because.
It depends upon two main issues:
1. is the use exempt under copyright statutes; or
2. do you have a license?
If neither answer is yes, the infringer could be sued for damages and injunction, court costs and attorney fees. Under US laws, if it is willful infringement for profit, the infringer could also possibly be charged with criminal infringement, fined or sent to federal prison.
You'll got to prison. Big-Bob will have his way with you bom chicka wah wah.
In the US, you are subject to fines ranging from $750 to $30,000, and extreme cases of willful infringement carry fines up to $250,000 and five years in prison.
You can get sued by the owner. If they let you off your are LUCKY!
If you get caught, possibly.
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Yes, it is compatible. Just keep in mind that most material on Limewire is illegal to download. If you are downloading any copyrighted material, and get caught, you will be facing some very hefty fines.
Yes Stricly speaking limewire is not an illegal programme as it forces you to sign a disclaimer saying that you will not download copyrighted material. However most people are downloading copyrighted material but also uploading as limewire is a p2p programme (peer2peer). Therefore if you are just downloading and you get caught maybe you will get fined £2 a song, whereas uploading can be upwards of £10000. So what you want to do is get a nice IP blocker or cut your upload speed to 0KBPS. Hope this helped.
No, it is still copyrighted by the owner, and or producers no matter what.
FrostWire Not Illegal, Downloading Copyrighted Material IsFrostWire itself is not illegal. FrostWire can be used as a peer to peer file transferring system of uncopyrighted materials. But once copyrighted materials starting being used, downloading and uploading is illegal.
Not too much. You will definitely get a warning from your ISP (internet service provider) and you may get fined very little f you keep on going with it. You won't get jailed or people coming to your home. BUT STILL I ADVISE YOU TO STOP DOWNLOADING BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT THEY MIGHT DO TO YOU!
It is officially for sharing your pictures, videos and music you have made and downloading of the software is legal, and the site claims that there is no spyware added. Howere the downloading of the copyrighted music without payment is illegal, and therefore you perhaps cant entirely trust frostwire. However the chances of you being caught downloading media illegally through frost or limewire are extremly slim.
Yes just depends what your downloading but it is highly likley that you will NOT get caught. I do not know anyone who has been caught downloading off of Isohunt.com
Infringement is punishable by fines ranging from $750 to $30,000.
Yes. Don't do it.