I found this website to download music called Frostwire but I'm hesitant to use it because I don't know if it's legal or not.
Is it legal to download music from Frostwire? I think that the program itself is legal, but is the music downloaded from it legal?
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Cole
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07-20-2009 at 12:25 AM
The actual software is legal, but what you download from it can be illegal.
P2P programs aren't illegal. However sharing copyrighted material, like software that you have to pay for or copyrighted music or movies is illegal.
Frostwire 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.
So the program FrostWire in itself is completely legal.
Think of Frostwire as a gun. The gun is legal ... what you do with the gun can put you in jail. The intent of this program is to NOT compensate music artists for their intellectual property.
