What is a Legal Music Download and
what's not?
Beware of mp3 download web
sites that make claims of being legal.
You may find wording like this: "People
are not getting sued for using our
software". That is in fact is true. Use
of the file sharing software is not illegal,
nor is the program itself... but sharing mp3
music (the act of downloading mp3 music
from other user without paying royalty fees
to the artist) is NOT legal. The act of downloading
music without paying for it is what
people in the US are being sued over. Even if
you paid to be part of the file sharing
program, none of that money goes to the
artist.
Because so many file sharing
programs claim to be legal, they are in fact
deceiving the public by making it sound like
the act of downloading
mp3 music from their site is in fact
legal. For this very reason, we do not try to
over use the word legal. We prefer to use the
word "legitimate" because it's a
word that has not been overused. Legitimate
means that every site featured in our review
has agreements in place to pay royalties to
artists and record companies. The down side
to this is that most of these sites are only
available to residents of the United States.
Some sites offer music
downloads to multiple countries and we've
tried to point that out where we can.
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