Looking at Legal Music Downloading

[Ioman]

The Tech Zone takes a look at what it takes to do 100% legal music downloads.

Throughout the past few years downloading music on the internet has increased in popularity. At the same time though, it has become illegal through many companies to download music as musicians and artists have been losing money on their CD sales. With many people being sued in the past couple years for downloading music, is it really possible to download music legally anymore? If so, at what price will it cost you to download music?

Direct link: http://www.thetechzone.com/?m=show&id=161

This should spur some conversation!

[znaps]

Pressplay and Rhapsody sound incredibly sucky to me. Does anyone here subscribe to those?

I've been using allofmp3.com (the Russian commercial service) for a few months now and I'm extremely happy with it. It may not be strictly legal to use from the USA, but it's very user friendly, and supports so many formats without restrictions.

[llbbl]

I remember wanting to do an article like this ...

[Archon]

Rhapsody is only 128kbps... I use it simply cause I don't have to download shti -- I keep saying, once they offer 320kbps downloads, I'll pay for 'em.

[llbbl]

The market for online music sales needs to grow more. Get rid of those damn cd's you buy in the stores. Let us download the artwork also.

[Archon]

Or an even better idea; don't charge $14 for a CD! I'm talkin $9 max; I was going to get that new Greenday CD, but it was like, wtf.. and so I downloaded it.

[llbbl]

Yea Itunes and the other methods of online music distribution is much better!