Legal MP3 Download

What if people start downloading legal mp3 music from independent and unsigned musicians who offer downloads of their mp3 music in hopes of attracting more fans. Here you wont be violating copyright with the file sharing programs.

The work of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) would be reduced, because people will start buying CDs directly from the artists and seeing their shows instead of enriching the major labels by buying CDs from the bands the labels have chosen for us to listen to. Also the RIAA will have no reason to complain as these music downloads don't violate any copyright because the artists give you permission to download.

4freemp3downloads.com decided to write this article after a friend told us in all sincerity that the money he paid to purchase a particular file sharing program went to compensate the artists whose music she downloaded. He had no idea he was violating anyone's copyright. Many peer-to-peer file traders, while probably aware they are violating copyrights, aren't much more clued in than my friend.

Let us read and increase our knowledge about the legal and historical issues around copyright, and suggest steps you can take to make file sharing legal.

If you think that violating copyright by downloading mp3 music with file-sharing programs will not put you in serious trouble, then you need to read RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Against File Swappers and House Bill to Make File-Sharing an Automatic Felony.

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