my dad said downloading music from the internet when you pay is still illegal and i asked them my friends do it and they dont get caught by the cops. He says that the cops have ip addresses to each persons computer and see if they download music my friends say that he is lieing also he said they can put you in jail is all of what i typed true?
2006-11-26 14:35:02 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Well downloading from a music service Like I-Tunes is legal. Also services like Napster, Yahoo Music that have subscriptions with unlimited downloads are also legal. However subscription services require an MP3 player that can play DRM (Digital rights media) and you need to have windows media player 10 installed. all these are legal payed for music.
services such as limewire which alow you to download pirated copies of music are illegal and loaded with virus and spyware.
If you are just listening to music on you computer and don;t need to put it on a cd or mp3 player you might try napster online (www.napster.com) this streams the music to you and the are thousands of artists available. bet of all it is free and legal.
2006-11-26 14:48:16 · answer #1 · answered by sooj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, downloading music you paid for is not illegal, it's like buying it from a store. Downloading copy writted music you did not pay for is illegal. Will the cops go after you? Not for a couple of songs, usually the ones that get caught have downloaded thousands of songs illegally. The music industry has lawyers that will send you a summons to appear in court.
2006-11-26 22:43:34 · answer #2 · answered by Clipper 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are quiet a few ways to get music off the Internet. I won't go into the legalities of all of them. Obviously, if you are getting someones copyrighted material without paying, then that's probably not legal.
There are services that you can use to get music that WILL pay the artists who created the songs. The most popular are probably...
Apple iTunes -> http://www.itunes.com
Napster -> http://www.napster.com
and even WalMart -> http://www.walmart.com/swap/SwapEntry.do?dslURL=/swap/LoadMain.do%3FmainCategoryId%3D2500
All of these services will sell you songs between .85 and $1.00 per song or so.
There are quite a few services advertised on Clickbank that make the promise that for a one time membership fee, you can download an unlimited number of songs. Here are those services. I cannot attest to how well they work, so research them by visiting them...
Unlimited Download Center -> http://watersaffl.udc01.hop.clickbank.net?tid=YAHOOANS
Movie Downloads.com -> http://watersaffl.movies01.hop.clickbank.net?tid=YAHOOANS
Unlimited MP3 Music -> http://watersaffl.gamecity.hop.clickbank.net?tid=YAHOOANS
Hot MP3 Downloads -> http://watersaffl.mp3hot.hop.clickbank.net?tid=YAHOOANS
I have had good luck finding music on BitTorrent sites. BitTorrent is an Internet protocol for moving very large files. It's not the same as P2P (limewire and such), but it relies on other users in the BitTorrent community leaving their music files available. I have often been frustrated by downloading a song or album only to find that after it downloads 95%, it stops because not enough BitTorrent seeders have kept the files available. The upside to BitTorrents are that they download extremely fast!
You'll need a BitTorrent client to download torrents. I use Azureus. It's a free and very nice client application that you can get here...
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
You'll also need a few BitTorrent tracker sites. Here are a few to get you started...
TorrentSpy -> http://www.torrentspy.com/
The Pirates Bay -> http://thepiratebay.org/
ISO Hunt -> http://isohunt.com/
MiniNova -> http://www.mininova.org
Finally, I have had great luck finding unknown artists by using an NNTP News Server. NNTP is an old Bulletin Board type of protocol. NNTP means Network News Transport Protocol. But the NNTP community has evolved into about 50,000 different 'channels' that cover every imaginable subject and there is a way to 'encode' binary files to place them on these NNTP groups. For music, music is grouped into different 'genres'. For example, I download Jazz and Reggae from two different channels. It is not easy to find any particular song or artist, so I just download everything in a group and often find songs and artists that I've never heard of before.
To download music from NNTP groups, you'll need a News Reader. There are some free ones out there. I use this one...
http://www.newsbinpro.com/
Well, that ought to keep you busy for a while! Good luck!
2006-11-28 12:29:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
withoutpay i think you mean, yes that is illegal... so what if your friends dont get caught... personally i think they shouldnt be that rich since they just buy tons of stuff when really there are people who could use the money more then them.. but you are stealing the right to the song.. say you invented a cure for aids, patoned it but all of a sudden people are saying they invented it also.. would you feel very special?
2006-11-26 22:41:13 · answer #4 · answered by David E 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People do get sued , as young as 12 years old. Read here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/09/the_riaa_sees_the_face/
2006-11-26 22:59:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, your dad's an idiot.
2006-11-26 22:48:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
no
2006-11-26 22:47:20 · answer #7 · answered by Tyler C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋