Download Music for FREE Online.
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Finding places to download music for free online is simple. The question is whether-or-not the website is legitimate. The truly 100% legal sites such as Unsigned Band Web, AudioStreet.net and Fingertips are outnumbered by the scam sites, so you have to be careful in your search efforts.
It is really sickening the way that these scam sites encourage you to become a subscriber and for a small onetime fee you can download music for free online forever and ever.
READ THE FINE PRINT!
If you can find the fine print, they feed you this garbage about
downloading and sharing responsibly, etc., etc. In other words,
don't get caught!
One of the more common disclaimers you will find on these scam sites reads like this:
"Some information is protected by copyright, which means that you generally need the copyright owner's permission before you make it available to other P2P users. Popular music, movies, games, and software are often protected by copyright."
Okay, let's decipher this disclaimer:
"Some information is protected by copyright, which means that you generally need the copyright owner's
permission before you make it available to other P2P users."
Generally need? If it has a copyright, you always need the owner's permission. If you're going to make it available to other P2P users, you're making it available to millions of users. Okay, so how do you get the copyright owner's permission? If you could even find the copyright owner, do you think that they're going to give you permission to make their production available to millions of other people for free?
Or how about:
"Click here for information on how to use this P2P software application to download music for free
online and minimize or avoid copyright infringement."
Minimize? Avoid?
In other words, "Click here for information on how to use this P2P software application to illegally download and minimize getting caught or avoid getting caught altogether".
What? Are they crazy? Of course they're not crazy! They know that there are millions of people out there who either aren't going to read the fine print or are going to take their chances.
So, how about the sites that really are free?
They aren't going to ask you for a dime for a free download. Get it? Free?
The neat thing about a lot of these really, truly, 100% legal sites like Insound, CMJ.com or Overplay where you can download music for free online, is that most of the music on these sites is from new artists hoping to get noticed by a record label. You can find some very good music if you're determined and just put forth a little effort in your searches.
Just like MP3, peer-to-peer is a technology and the technology itself is not illegal! There are lots of legal MP3s from great artists on many, many online sites such as GarageBand.com or iSound.com. The problem is that some people use peer-to-peer to make one copy of an album and make that copy available on the Internet for hundreds of thousands of people.
Not only is it not fair, it's illegal!
If you choose to buy or download music for free online and burn your own CDs and make copies for yourself on your computer or portable music player, that's great.It's your music and we want you to enjoy it at home, at work, in the car and on the jogging trail. But the fact that the technology exists to enable unlimited Internet distribution of music copies doesn't make it right.
Copyright infringement can result in significant monetary damages, fines and even criminal penalties. Some copyright owners have filed civil lawsuits against individuals that they believe unlawfully distributed large numbers of copyrighted songs. You can learn more about copyright laws at P2P United.
If your desire is to create a great music library,
with a little bit of effort you can find a good selection of sites like CNET's Download.com, Peoplesound, SoundClick and Gigatracks to download music for free online. And a number of these sites can be accessed from right here.
All of the sites we've mentioned up to this point have a great variety of music styles on them. If you are looking for a particular style of music, there are sites such as LatinRapper.com, Celtic MP3s Music Magazine and eClassical.com.
Of course, you don't have to build your library completely with free downloads. There are some great sites where you can download all of your favorites. How many CDs have you ever purchased and enjoyed every single cut on it? Not too many you say?
That's the great thing about the technology of downloading music online. You can download individual songs at an average cost of $0.99 per song.
If this is the route that you would prefer to take, there is an endless supply of legal download sites. But again, once you've acquired all of your favorites, try some of the places where you can download music for free online. Chances are you will find a new band that will become one of your favorites before they become famous.
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