Tips To Find A Legal Music Download Site
Below I will talk about my top 10 tips to help you find a legal music
download site. Hopefully they will help you divert away from illegal download
sites.
1. Pay for use
This is one of the most effective ways to identify whether a site is legal or
not. Look for download sites that charge you per song, or per month or per
year.
If you see a site offering free music downloads for a certain trial period,
then this doesnt necessarily mean that the site is legal. Many legal sites use
this as an enticement, so do not be put off by that.
2. Size Limits
A legal music download site generally distributes music from reputable labels
and artists. This means that you will not find a wide range of mixes and custom
files that will almost certainly slow down your connection, and therefore take
forever to download. Moreover, if these files are small it assures the music
retail industry that the music site is actually selling real legal music, and
not the massive files associated with computer games and movies etc
3. Volume limits
Legal music download sites usually distribute their material on a per song
basis. One of the major advantages of buying your music online is that you dont
have to spend $17 for an entire album if you only want 3 or 4 songs. Legal
music sites will actually setup download limits as well as transfer rate
limits. As a result, this prevents dishonest customers from setting up their
computers to copy hundreds of files in a few hours.
4. Larger databases, Larger costs
The larger the databases that the legal download sites have, the more it will
actually cost you. This can actually lead to paying a bit more than a normal CD
in the shop IF the store has literally hundreds and hundreds of thousands of
songs because they could cost between $1 - $3. Therefore, dont go for the
exceptionally large databases. The reason why these sites are more expensive
than the illegal music sites is because they are obliged to give a portion of
their fees back to the recording industry.
5. Limited Choice
Most of the legal music download sites dont have the capacity or copyright
authority to distribute hundreds of millions of songs. The songs are stored on
servers with a finite amount of space unlike the tangled web of computer to
computer file transfers from the illegal sites.
The other reason for the limited choice is that it is highly unlikely that they
will get an agreement from every single record label to distribute their music
online.
The quality of every online music catalog depends on the Music Studios that are
providing the material. Established, and therefore popular artists usually
switch labels at least once during their singing career. So you might have
access to their newer materials, but not the older songs, or vice versa.
6. No Adware or Spyware
Legal music download sites like their offline retail counterparts are getting
an actual fee for their service. They dont want to scam or upset their
customers by placing dangerous and annoying spyware and adware programs on
their computers.
7. Music Only
The fact is that a legal music download site will only have music on it to
download. This means that you wont be able to download computer games, movies
or anything else like this.
8. Copyright Notice
A clearly written copyright notice should be provided on the site stating:
a) The nature of the site owners authorization to distribute legal music files
online
b) What you can do with the files once you have paid for them
c) Any limitations on either party as far as use and distribution of the files.
9. No file sharing allowed
You are only allowed to use the files for personal use. Unlike a CD (physical
product) you cannot purchase songs, use them and then sell them to another
party or distribute them free of charge to friends, family, web surfers etc.
10. Backed by a big label?
Most of the legal music download sites are backed by at least one major music
label. People are looking for songs that are popular, on the radio, playing in
the clubs or on MTV. All of that commercial material comes out of the studio
system. If the label does not provide the material, subject to fees, taxes and
copyright notices, then the site cannot legally distribute them.
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