The Progress and Freedom Foundation: Limewire is the devil’s child

The Washington-based conservative Progress and Freedom Foundation has published a study titled “Inadvertent File-Sharing Re-Invented: The Dangerous Design of LimeWire 5″ today that makes Limewire sound like the most dangerous application ever. Limewire’s features help “identity thieves, pedophiles, terrorists, and spies,” “can also grant reduced jail sentences to dangerous pedophiles,” and “knowingly (inflict harm) upon children and their families,” according to the study. Scary stuff, all thanks to what has been called inadvertent file sharing, meaning that users share some files they didn’t really mean to.

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The Progress and Freedom Foundation: Limewire is the devil’s child

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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 P2P News

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