User talk:Pringles012
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LimeWire[edit]
I would like to edit a page on Wikipedia concerning the software called LimeWire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limewire. There are current laws that have resulted, although may not be directly but indirectly related to the issues concerning LimeWire. I want to add information about the new law that internet providers now partake in, called the “Six strikes Law”. I propose this law as an important issue in relation to this page because it is one of the results of having illegal downloading sites. This law then also concerns matters of individual privacy as everything is being monitored and therefore, it creates restriction on the use of internet which is obviously not appreciated by everyone in this generation where the supply of “free” anything and everything is welcomed. Thus, I would like to include the criticism that this new law is probably facing and how the public and the internet providers are dealing with them. Also, I found a term, AVG, used but as a reader I had to look up what it was because it was not directly defined. I think Wikipedia pages are made to break down the simplest of things and therefore, as a reader who is new to this technical diction, I believe it is necessary to explain the simplest of abbreviations. I want to edit this page and answer the question, “What is AVG?” Overall, I will edit the subsection “Version History” to define “What is AVG?” and then I will create a new subsection about the “Six strikes Law” and the criticism that follows the new law. Pringles012 (talk) 08:39, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
- You have some great ideas here for improving the LimeWire article! You should discuss your proposed changes on the article's talk page, since that's what it's there for. Let me know if you need help with anything. --Geniac (talk) 02:30, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, I must have misread your above post. After reading it closer, I agree that your information belongs on the article for the Copyright Alert System, not the LimeWire article, since the law is not directly related to that software. --Geniac (talk) 23:10, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
So what should I do now? I checked out the Copyright Alert System Page on Wiki and it already has most of the information that I have proposed to put in as far as I understood the article. The only thing I saw that it does not have would be the criticism of the new law. Pringles012 (talk) 18:31, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
- You could still add whatever information isn't already there. You could incorporate criticism information to the existing Reception and controversy section of that article or create a Criticism section and put it there. --Geniac (talk) 00:14, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
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