The user-friendly, easy to use Ares software is a powerful alternative to peer-to-peer file-sharing programs like as Kazaa, iMesh, FastTrack and LimeWire. Developed in 2002, this program has since continued to reach more and more computers and homes. Ares, unlike some of its predecessors, have never been persecuted and has not had legal issues mainly due to its responsible and mindful users.

Because clients like Ares connect to all major peer-to-peer networks, it is not impossible to locate and download almost anything. If you are sharing files such as books, movies or songs that are copyrighted and you don’t have any written consent of the copyright owner, you can be held legally liable for copyright infringement. Just recently, a number of performing artists along with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) have productively sued clients like eDonkey and Napster for allowing their users to download copyrighted songs from their computer. This has caused such projects to shutdown, the proprietors to settle for thousands of dollars from court orders and a large number of followers devastated.

It is everyone’s responsibility to utilize the Ares software within the legal boundaries of one’s country’s intellectual property laws.