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How to Download Music From The Internet
by Gary Hendricks

Most of you have probably heard of the RIAA's quest to crush
online music piracy. The illegal sharing of copyrighted songs
via the MP3 format over the Internet costs the music industry
billions of dollars. This is conventionally done using illegal
file sharing programs like KaZaa and iMesh. This article
explores the legal ways to download and enjoy music from the
Internet.

Method 1: Check out Free Music Sites

There are many free music websites which provide free music
downloads. These are not the websites of your music pirates -
they are totally legal. Don't expect to find full albums to
download, particularly if the song is from a famous artist (only
music pirate websites allow full album downloads). You'll only
find a few "teasers" intended to make you want to buy the
artists' CD. Independent, less well-known artists are an
exception - many of them will let you down their complete song
catalog to promote themselves.

Here are a few of the free music websites which I recommend:

AMPCAST.com

Amazon.com Digital Music Downloads

RollingStone.com

ElectronicScene.com

The Internet Underground Music Archive

Method 2: Buy Music Online

An increasingly popular way to find and download music online is
to head for legal online music services. The most popular of
these is the Apples iTune service. Currently it provides over
400,000 songs from all five major labels. Each song is available
for a standard price of 99 cents each. Here are the best online
music services I've come across:

EMusic.com

iTunes

MusicMatch Downloads

Napster 2.0

Rhapsody

Weblisten.com

Conclusion

It is very tempting to use KaZaa and other file sharing programs
to download music - but please don't. If you wrote a song and
sold a CD, would you be happy to see millions of people
distributing that song for free? No. You don't have to break the
law to find and download free MP3 music. There are many websites
out there offering free music - you just need to find them.

About The Author

Gary Hendricks - http://digital-music-guide.com

gary_hendricks@digital-music-guide.com

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