Sunday, August 09, 2009

You Need To Pay For Legal Music Downloads

By John Roberts

Legal music downloads are the only way to go for right now. Many people are still using peer-to-peer sites to obtain their music. The mentality is that there is probably so many people out there doing it that no one will ever take notice of the average college student that just wants a few tracks for their digital music player.

The record companies are noticing who is doing what and from where. The entire music industry loses millions of dollars through music piracy. And although, you might think that your music library does not amount to much, you need to start thinking in more legal terms. The original download of each song and every upload is considering a single cont of piracy.

Depending on how much music you have pirated, you can end up owing the record companies thousand of dollars. Some people have even racked up over a million dollars in fines and copyright fees. Most of the people that are caught not using legal music downloads are college students or average citizens. The record companies will often settle out of court and have only made examples of a select few.

By paying for legal music downloads, you buy the song and the right to do what you want to with it. Any DRM restrictions are handled by the music site before you even consider purchasing a song. Although it is best to check and make sure that the site has handled the DRM restrictions if you are not using one of the big name music sites to get your music.

Many people feel that the music industry makes enough money through the CDs, concerts and merchandise that is already purchased. The music artists and the leaders of the music industry live in big houses and drive fancy cars, so what is a $0. 99 song to them. Regardless of how you feel, downloading music for free is piracy and you are in the wrong.

Most of us remember recording music from our radios to our cassette players but what most of us did not realize is that we were pirating music then, too. The record companies did not have a way to track us and just has to live with the infringement.

It the best course of action is to pay your money upfront and happily trot off with your music to do what you will with it. When faced with alternative, is there a better solution? - 2361

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