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Your Legal Music Download Options
By Tembi Renca
A lot of people like the sound of downloading decent quality but are concerned about doing it illegally. There are a variety of reasons why downloading is a good idea - you could do it in order to listen to one or two album tracks to see if it is worth buying the whole album. Downloading is also great because it is convenient - all you have to do is to wait to download the file. In some cases listening to the track stream is an option and this is instantaneous.
So what is the deal with the law? Many people will remember Napster being taken to court for encouraging file-sharing for free among peers. This court case judged
that people sharing files in this way are breaking the law - the fact that money isn't changing hands and no- one is profiting from it does not matter. Of course file sharing still goes on over peer to peer (P2P) networks (though not via Napster). Interestingly, recent research has shown that P2P is increasingly being used for legitimate file sharing - photos, files and so on - and not just for swapping copyrighted material.
If you want to stay the right side of the law, you should not download copyrighted material from the Internet. But the fact that this practice continues shows how many people think downloading their tunes is the best way to go. So if you want the convenience and ease without transgressing, how do you do it?
Here are some of the ways. Anyone with a fast connection will be able to catch quality broadcasts from web radio stations, or they can listen to the streaming of new albums on some web pages. This practice of broadcasting entire new works is legal - it is encouraged by the record companies as exposure for the artist. They are streamed to you, which means you do not ever get the files on your computer, but can listen as it is broadcast. The same sort of thing you would get in-store if you were to listen to the featured albums played through the headphone stations. Google will point you to Internet Radio and there are loads of sites such as Yahoo's Launch.com, MP3.com, or http://www.ytube.com. These web portals also offer new videos.
But the reason many people download is because they want it for their MP3 players - they need the download. Some good pay sites are available that allow you to do this such as Macintosh's itunes at www.itunes.com. This is the leading site and it is compatible with any player, not just iPods. Each track will cost you 99 cents but it is great quality and the track is then your own.
Other sites are always fighting for this lucrative market, each offering similar but slightly different services. There are many that work on a monthly-fee basis rather than billing by track. And a new and slightly different concept is mercora (www.mercora.com). Here you pay a small monthly fee and share tracks - you broadcast your tracks (you can make like a DJ if you want) whilst you record the tracks broadcast by others. Mercora pays a fee for broadcast rights which makes it within the law.
The majority of these sites are offering trial periods for nothing. Sign up for the trial, grab some tunes, and then go with the site that works for you.
Copyright 2006 Tembi Renca. All rights reserved.
Tembi Renca"s internet site FRWE Music Download Inc makes it easy for you to easily locate and download music on the Internet. For the latest downloads, and music download guidance visit her archive of articles: www.frwemusicdownload.com/articles/
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