Im writing an essay and im just getting kind of confused. My essay is about the controversal issue of illegal music downloading. I am against it. But is downloading music on itunes illegal even if you pay 1 dollar for it. Its legal right?
2007-10-02 13:12:32 · 28 answers · asked by kelly 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
yeah, it's legal.
2007-10-02 13:14:45 · answer #1 · answered by ☆miss☆ 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is legal. You are paying money to downloading it, the residuals go to the music company and artists. If you are on Bear Share or any of those others where it is free, not only can you get a nasty virus but it is file sharing and noone who made or produced the music is getting paid so then that would be illegal.
2007-10-02 13:16:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Music companies still get profits from itunes therefore it is legal. Other peer to peer programs (sharing programs) are illegal since the music is being shared or stolen in the eyes of the leagal system.
2007-10-02 13:16:35 · answer #3 · answered by Awon 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is illegal to download music from a website who is not giving anything to the artist. These are more often that not any website that gives you music for free. Also, the program Kazaa.
It is legal to download from itunes, because you are paying for it, and the artist is earning royalties (money).
2007-10-02 13:16:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is legal. ITunes has made arrangements with the publishers to sell the music. If you are downloading from a free site then it is not legal.
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2007-10-02 13:15:30 · answer #5 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most different techniques license tune via a per month price, which allows for you to down load and concentrate to limitless quantity of tune. The crisis, those offerings do not paintings with ipods or iphones. The high-quality method to construct a low-priced tune library is borrow truly CD's from peers and rip them onto your pc into itunes.
2016-09-05 15:29:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is legal because the people who buy from itunes are still paying for the songs and the money they pay for the song goes to that artist
2007-10-02 13:16:53 · answer #7 · answered by Edan S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
iTUNES is legal.. You pay them for a song and a percentage goes back to the original artist. Whats not legal is when you torrent/limewire a song for free, because the artist gets nothing and you get a free song.
2007-10-02 13:17:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes it's legal because you're paying for the music. it's illegal if you download from sites for free
2007-10-02 13:15:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no... im pretty positive that its not... I would think anything that makes you pay is not illegal... plus its a big company now... iPods... Mac... it wouldnt be write if iTunes was involved with the illegal music downloading...
2007-10-02 13:16:20 · answer #10 · answered by CoolChickNot! 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
OF COURSE ITS LEGAL!! iTunes a popular place to get music and you have to pay for music so its legal dont worry but I think limewire is illegal thats what I've been told, ive also been told its not but idk! I also know limewire viruses.. Yea so itunes is legal dont worry!
2007-10-02 13:16:53 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋