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Today i received a letter from my internet provider , and said that they advised me to uninstall "Limewire" following ilegal downloads and sharing , Do you think that because of this Physical CD's will go on the up or Downloads will just keep ruling ?
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Well i don't really know. Some people say that file sharing users wouldn't buy music even if there was no free music to download, i think that a few would start buying music. I think even a small proportion of limewire users doing this would result in a large increase in legal downloading because i know hundreds of people who use Limewire and other similar programs yet i don't know a single person at my school who i know buys music. The problem is though the warning letters mean nothing, apparantly.
No it had a song i had downloaded.
or made available to be uploaded (shared).

 

Were you making the song available for others to also download? That will be how you were caught, not because you downloaded something yourself but rather because you made it available for others to download. The BPI are running an exercise and are capturing IP information as well as timestamps of people sharing specific songs, which they then use to approach the ISP, to have the ISP send out the warning letter. That's all it is at the moment, a warning letter, but that may change in the future and in future warnings to file sharers could be met with the added threat of disconnection by the ISP or ultimately prosecution by the BPI.

 

see these reports

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7522334.stm

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7522962.stm

 

When someone is downloading from you, you will never know if it is another file sharer or someone from the BPI...

 

Who is your ISP? BT and Virgin are the most active at the moment in sending out these letters.

Legal downloads will go up if people are forced to stop illegally downloading. That's the next logical step. I don't think physical singles will benefit really.

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No i never made it avilable for others to download. i had downloaded it not uploaded it.
it wouldnt have an effect (at least not a major one) on physical sales. People have got to understand that that format is currently in its last breaths, just like records ceded to cassettes and those to cds. Eventually everything will be digital
it wouldnt have an effect (at least not a major one) on physical sales. People have got to understand that that format is currently in its last breaths, just like records ceded to cassettes and those to cds. Eventually everything will be digital

 

No it will not be - not everyone who listens to music has/wants a computer, so there will remain a significant minority market for physical music formats. After all - if vinyl has survived this long...

 

Besides, while the physical *singles* market might be on life-support, don't forget that something like 96% of albums are still sold on CD, so that will remain a significant market for a long time to come.

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The Physical CD single is dead now that Woolworths have stopped selling it as there are now many towns where you cannot buy a CD single anymore.
No i never made it avilable for others to download. i had downloaded it not uploaded it.

 

If you download something from Limewire, it automatically goes in your shared folder therefore you are sharing that file with others too

 

Are they only looking at P2Ps? What about rapidshare etc?

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LOL it has nothing to do with the physical singles. If then rather the legal downloads will increase imo.
The Physical CD single is dead now that Woolworths have stopped selling it as there are now many towns where you cannot buy a CD single anymore.

In my local town there has been no physical single available for about 3 or 4 years.

The single physical is virtually dead, unless its a charity, or an act from a TV reality series
Legal downloads will go up if people are forced to stop illegally downloading

 

i don't think this will be the case at all - people just won't bother...and in the end the whole music business will suffer even more!!

i don't think this will be the case at all - people just won't bother...and in the end the whole music business will suffer even more!!

I hope so. Labels are too stupid to realise the real problems!!!!

If you download something from Limewire, it automatically goes in your shared folder therefore you are sharing that file with others too

 

Are they only looking at P2Ps? What about rapidshare etc?

P2P is all they are looking at presently.

 

Re: automatic sharing: if the options are set correctly then downloading via Limewire doesn't automatically mean that files are shared with others, regardless of whether the file goes to the Shared folder or elsewhere. Many people, however, don't configure the program correctly and allow sharing without realising it.

 

Limewire allows sharing in four ways, each of which have to be individually disabled in order to prevent any sharing from taking place. Disabling all four options will prevent downloads from automatically from being shared but most people don't realise that some of them actually exist:

 

1. when Limewire is first installed the option is there for the program to scan the hard drive for media files to share - some people don't even disable this and all sorts of things get shared. The option can be disabled.

 

2. Limewire then creates a shared folder and the default is to allow uploads (sharing) from this folder. This option can be disabled.

 

3. Limewire sets a default of allowing partially downloaded files to be shared - ie you allow uploading of a file as it is being downloaded and regardless of whether sharing is enabled or not at 2. above. This option can be disabled.

 

4. Limewire then sets a default of allowing all files downloaded via Limewire to be shared regardless of whether sharing via 2 above has been disabled or partial sharing at 3. has been disabled. Effectively it allows an individual file downloaded via Limewire since last installation to be shared regardless of where the file itself is stored on the computer - if the file is moved from the Shared folder to another folder on the computer it is still marked for sharing, even if the shared folder itself and / or the folder where the file is moved to are not being actively shared. This option can be disabled.

 

Most people think that disabling sharing in options 1 and 2 will prevent any files from being shared (uploaded) but this is not the case. Some people aren't aware of 3 and especially 4 and allow sharing of downloaded files without being aware they are actually doing so...

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