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programs are legal, the actual act of
sharing the file is NOT legal. Record
companies are proving this in the courts
every day as they sue average people for
downloading music. To be clear, paying to
join a file sharing program to download
unlimited music, none of that payment
goes to the artist or musician. The
only way to make sure you legally
downloading mp3’s is to make sure
you are on a truly legal music download
site. Even if you did buy the CD,
you do not have the right to make a copy
of it (or create an Mp3 of it) for the
purpose of sharing it with someone else. We
only feature legal mp3 download sites in
our reviews and links. Beware of other
sites that imply they offer legal
music downloads, but are really only
file sharing networks.
ONLY LEGAL
MUSIC
You will notice that we feature the word
legitimate in our heading. Many sites say
they are legal but are not, therefore we
want to stress that we are a legitimate mp3 music download
site. All the music links featured on this site are legal. It's a way for us to say that
our featured sites are truly legal,
without associating ourselves with
non-legal file sharing networks who imply
they're legal. Actually, the programs are
legal but the act of music
downloading is illegal if you're not
using a legitmate site as listed on this
page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact
us.
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Napster™ |
Date Added:
02/18/2005 |
napster.com
In Canada
napster.ca
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| Napster
was the first music downloading
site to form extensive content
agreements with the five major
record labels, as well as
hundreds of independents. With Napster legal
music downloads, you
become a member they allow you to
preview full songs before buying
them. Napster delivers access to
a large catalog of online legal
music, with over 1,000,000 tracks
spanning all genres. Try it for
free... click
here to visit |
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Yahoo! Music™ |
Date Added:
05/3/2005 |
music.yahoo.com
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4/5 |
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Yahoo! Music
lets you play and save over 2
million full-length songs to your
PC or any portable device. Choose
from thousands of playlists for
one of the lowest monthly rates
in the legal music download
industry. Get personalized Yahoo
Music recommendations and
access to new releases.
Keep all the music you want, as
long as you’re a
subscriber..... click here to try
Yahoo Music Free |
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| iTunes™ |
Date
Added: 4/17/2004 |
apple.com/itunes
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Mac, Linux |
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With
iTunes you can buy
entire albums or single
tracks, but their biggest
downfall is that their software only
allows a 30 second
preview of songs. The upside is that you pay nothing to preview music, only when it's time to purchase and download,
unlike some music
downloading programs that
require a monthly
membership. However, if
you download a lot of
songs, iTunes "pay
as you download"
method will give you
fewer songs for your
money than getting
unlimited downloads from
programs such as Napster with a monthly subscription fee.
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