this is crazy

[Yota1]

Just move all of the music to a non shared file so when they look there is nothing there.

[Lady Di]

Just move all of the music to a non shared file so when they look there is nothing there.

And then format your HD twice or there will always be evidence of it if they want to find it.

[Wermz84]

ok mini describe lime wire?

Illegal as hell but infinetly harder to catch and prosocute because you become part of a large distributed file sharing network.  unlike napster that originally had a central depository.  You shut down the central file location and no more downloading.  but in a peer to peer network if you shut one down, the program automatically downloads from the next available agent.

I suppose technically the limewire software itself isnt illegal, but the sharing of music files seems to be.

[Wermz84]

And then format your HD twice or there will always be evidence of it if they want to find it.

There is another technique called "Flattening the box", this is where you physically write a 1 to each bite in every sector of the hard drive     if your that worried.    sorry dorking out.

[Lady Di]

GEEK ALERT! LOL

And it is true that the software is not illegal, it is not illegal to share files it is illegal to share copyrighted (?what's the right word for that?) files that you do not have permission to share.

[Trunkz]

it takes at least 7x flattening the box before the nsa cannot get data off the drive ... fyi

a couple of years ago i had a client thats servers arrya went out and garbled all the data.. we sent it off to be
"recovered" they sent it back on a usb hard drive there were files that had been deleted and written over many times on that removable drive...

[Wermz84]

Sweet.  a fellow Geek I see!