What are the chances of someone going to jail for downloading something illegally offline?
It seems like everybody does it and nobody gets caught, but everyone warns if you do it you’re going to jail. What would be the fine, or jail sentence?
It depends where you’re downloading from.
The RIAA regularly monitors the gnutella network… This would include BearShare, Limewire, etc all those programs use the same network.. Pretty much any of the public, open, networks, yes. If you downloaded the program for free that lets you search the web for files using the P2P network, all of these programs use the same network and are monitored…
If you’re downloading from a private network – possibly. Again it depends on the network…
And it depends on what you’re downloading. games, programs not as much. Music, audiobooks and such are much more closely monitored. Porn is a big question mark – it depends on what kind of porn. Child porn is illegal even to HAVE even if you downloaded it by mistake – that one they do monitor VERY closely…
All those sites and all these kinds of files are well known to the hacker community too – so be prepared for LOTS of files that are bogus and are really viruses and/or malware… You better have REAL good anti-virus and anti-malware programs running all the time if you do any real downloading from these sites because your machine will get infected fast…
It depends what it is. If it’s games, it pretty much goes without notice, if it’s child porn then it may be traced back to all who shared it.
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Slim to none unless you the one giving it free online, or selling bootlegs. You don’t have much to worry about getting arrested. But I would concern myself with getting viruses on your computer from illegal downloads. If by some slim chance you got caught first would be a warning,maybe a small fine. But big time bootleg distributors usually get the Fed to take away all there computers and access to the Internet. But thats not going to happen to you.
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It depends where you’re downloading from.
The RIAA regularly monitors the gnutella network… This would include BearShare, Limewire, etc all those programs use the same network.. Pretty much any of the public, open, networks, yes. If you downloaded the program for free that lets you search the web for files using the P2P network, all of these programs use the same network and are monitored…
If you’re downloading from a private network – possibly. Again it depends on the network…
And it depends on what you’re downloading. games, programs not as much. Music, audiobooks and such are much more closely monitored. Porn is a big question mark – it depends on what kind of porn. Child porn is illegal even to HAVE even if you downloaded it by mistake – that one they do monitor VERY closely…
All those sites and all these kinds of files are well known to the hacker community too – so be prepared for LOTS of files that are bogus and are really viruses and/or malware… You better have REAL good anti-virus and anti-malware programs running all the time if you do any real downloading from these sites because your machine will get infected fast…
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