The program violates eight industry 'best practices.' By default, the LimeWire 5 shares sensitive file types, user-originated files and recursively shares folders. It also fails to give timely and conspicuous warnings, fails to uninstall completely, and will perpetuate inadvertent sharing caused by prior versions of the program. The default settings of the program exploit inexperienced users. Many new users of file-sharing programs tend to be pre-teens or teenage children who may be unaware that, by default, these programs 'share' all downloaded files. Since most of these files are infringing, this leaves minors open to liability. Because the distributors of LimeWire 5 have again failed to do so, policymakers who want to stop inadvertent file-sharing should involve appropriate law enforcement agencies and extend the enforcement authority of the Federal Trade Commission by revising H.R.
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