Music Download: legal or illegal?

I dont pay for downloading songs i download songs without paying anything.

I pay for all of mine. After people started getting tossed in jail I made sure I never used any free sites again. I don't mind paying 99 cents for a song.

IT IS ABSOLUTELY LEGAL TO DOWNLOAD WHEN IT IS READILY AVAILABLE.

I've discovered many songs/bands that I wouldn't of done without 'illegal means', even with paid sites, I wouldn't pay for a song I might not end up liking at the end of the day.

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i think it is legal if one downloads it n use for himself but if he sells it it is illegal

It depends on which site your downloading. greetings. : )

file sharing networks.

Music downloads from p2p are actually illegal .. But I woudnt buy music even if all the p2p were to be baned..

I really dont care,, i dont have to give them anything to signin or anything, and all that i am wasting is a bit of m time, which i would have done anyway on some other site like orkut or hi5. So it really dosent matter.. But am defenetly looking forward to get the money

I help run a great freebie site and we have so many links to free downloads, I think all of them are totally legal, until I no longer have to pirate the music I want.

illegal

I my view it is illegal to download music from internet, becasue lot of hard work has gone into making a music video. The artist might have worked day and night to make a music. And see what we people do sitting at comfort of our home download the music from net without paying a penny.

I used to use Napster before the shake-up, but have not used P2P since then. Too chicken for one thing. We generally try to buy CDs directly from the bands themselves if they're still around because we enjoy supporting the musicians. I do get a lot of music from friends, too. I have never purchased a music download. If I'm forking over money, I want something I can hold in my hand, darnit.

It is illegal,if the site which downloads has not taken the permission.

I subscribe to Musicmatch. If I like it, I buy it. Otherwise, I save my money. Mostly, I save my money. Most of what I like is old. I don't like file sharing networks because my experience has been that I have to wait all day to get what I want and it may not even be what I want. Besides, I try to put myself in the shoes of the artist. If I had put my heart and soul into something, I would not want people to steal it from me. On the other hand, sometimes, stealing can make you more popular. Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" was prematurely released on the file sharing networks, so he gave it away on Myspace. Now it is on the charts. How often does that happen? When you're good, you're good. There is no keeping a good artist down.

It should be free. I mean rember back in the day when people would tape songs off the internet. It is like the same thing in my opian.

I always try to pay for music... this is because I respect the artists work... and want to hear him again... if i don`t pay for his songs where`s his profit going to come out of???

legal..

very few people download music from sites like iTunes, and mostly go for file sharing networks or free websites. However it shoul not be made illegal, and should not be scrapped....