Is LimeWire legal in the UK if you only download files and do not share them?

To start with, no matter what you do with online file sharing, your chances of actually getting caught are '''extremely''' low (contrary to what the record companies and the RIAA would have you believe). To answer your question, it depends on what type of files you mean. I'm assuming that you mean copywrited files like music. It is, technically, illegal to download them. But nobody has ever been caught downloading; the RIAA is looking for people who are sharing. So, in summary, yes, downloading is safe as long as you don't share copywrited files. But, like I said, even if you do share, you are just joining the list of literally millions of people sharing copywrited files at any one moment. The RIAA can only sue, say, two or three people each month at the most. You are more likely to win the lottery than you are to get sued by the RIAA. -DJ Craig