Buy Digital Music
Thank you for loving music, and thank you for supporting the artists who work so hard to create it. The recordings you buy are protected by copyright law. Like all legal matters, copyright law can be boring and complicated, but it’s still vitally important. It boils down to one thing: If you don’t own the copyright on something, you can’t distribute it without the agreement of whoever does. Doing so is illegal. It’s also wrong.
Distributing might mean downloading music through peer to peer services, burning copies for your friends, or loaning out music so that other people can distribute it. These things aren’t harmless. Illegally distributing music is no better than walking into a store and stealing a stack of CDs. It hurts the artists who create the music and the people who help bring it to you, and it comes with severe civil and criminal penalties. It’s not right, and it’s not worth it.
If you want to download music it’s easy to do it legally. Start at these sites: