LEGAL MUSIC DOWNLOAD
Legal Music Download - so what's the deal with downloading music from
the Internet?
Is downloading music legal? Are we helping or hurting the music industry
or our favorite artists if we download? Is it legal to copy downloaded
Mp3 music on a CD for a friend?
Everyone's talking about downloading music and a lot of people are confused. Some download web sites are being sued by record companies, others are not. Even some of the people who create and sell music aren't sure what to think about technology and music
Legal Music Download - The downloading of music from the Internet really exploded when the MP3 format became available. MP3 is a technology that makes music files very small, now we can store hundreds of downloaded songs on our hard drives Legal Mp3 Downloads
LEGAL MUSIC DOWNLOAD
Mp3 - A non-technical definition of an MP3 is that it's a way that a computer saves music on your computer's hard drive, so that you can download it from a website on the Internet and then play it back whenever you want - on your home computer or on an MP3 player
MP3 is a standard for compressing audio sounds or music on a computer. It is better than other standards mainly because it has a high compression ratio (12:1) and can output almost CD-quality sound (44kHz, 128kbits/sec), this is the best compression:quality ratio to date. To play or create MP3 files, you will need to download the appropriate software
This compression lets us download a song in only minutes or seconds,
instead of hours. So where a full 5 minute song would normally take
up ~60Mb at a 44kHz sampling rate,
it only takes ~5Mb using MP3 compression, with just a little loss in
sound quality
The software - all the software you need to get started making MP3s can be obtained from the Net. In order to play MP3 files, you need to download an MP3 player. To create MP3 files you must get one or more CD-ripping utilities. Then you need an MP3 Encoder
One song equals one MP3 file. Downloading simply means that an MP3 file that you find on a website is copied onto your computer and saved there, so that you can listen to it whenever you want. Downloading is easy, and just a click of your mouse button will begin the process. The Mp3 files are one of the safest kinds of files that you can download
Things You Should Know About MP3
• MP3 is not illegal, it is simply an audio compression format
• MP3 is the standard for high quality music and will soon be
on every PC
• MP3 gives artists and labels freedom to market and sell their
music anyway they wish
• Hundreds of companies are building businesses around MP3
• Thousands of artists are distributing content in mp3 today
• MP3 is the most cost effective and easy way for artists to explore
online music
• MP3 can be as secure as any current audio format
• Artists and labels can make money employing MP3 technology on
the net
• MP3 users should respect copyrights
MP3 files can now be downloaded and played on devices other than computers, such as a portable MP3 player. Some phone companies are even developing the technology so that we can play Mp3 songs on our cell phones. It looks like the MP3 file format is here to stay...
The big issue with legal music download is not how we play the music,
but where it comes from and what we do with it. If we download from
one of the many legal music download sites no problem. But if we share
or swap music files on non-licensed Internet sites, or burn mp3 music
onto CDs and give them away or sell them…It's not legal
Legal music download actions against illegal file-sharing, which in 2005 were extended to nearly 20,000 cases against uploaders in 17 countries, will be stepped up and spread to new countries in 2006. Legal music download action against illegal Mp3 downloading is necessary and while it's not always popular, it's having an impact. The biggest challenge for the digital music business will be to make music easier to buy than to steal
