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How to recognise legal music downloads

Author:

Leonard Will

Date:

Wednesday, 15th Jun 2005 10:09

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There has recently been a lot of publicity about fees of £2000 or more levied on people who have been downloading music from the Internet in breach of copyright.

However there are many sites which offer "free" music downloads; typing "download mp3 OR midi" or ""folk music" mp3" into Google gives lots of hits. I would like to listen to some of these but do not wish to infringe anyone's copyright and risk a big bill. How can I tell which sites are safe and which are pirates, given that the illegal sites are unlikely to label themselves as such?

Leonard Will

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	How to recognise legal music downloads
	There has recently been a lot of publicity about fees of £2000 or more levied on people who have been ...

Leonard Will

15/06/05 10:09

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	Re: How to recognise legal music downloads
	Hi Leonard Another way to look for music that's free and legal is to look for people using the 'Creative Commons' ...

Andy Williamson

27/06/05 22:28

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	Re: How to recognise legal music downloads
	Official record label websites are relatively easy to find using Record Labels on the Web http://www.rlabels.com/ There are also ...

Tracey

17/06/05 19:54

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	Re: How to recognise legal music downloads
	Thanks very much to Stuart, Ian and Tracey for your helpful replies. It's obviously a rather grey area, but it ...

Leonard Will

21/06/05 15:42

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	Re: How to recognise legal music downloads
	The recording companies are very active in shutting down any illegal music download sites with a "permanent"web presence. The publicity ...

Ian Savell

17/06/05 12:53

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	Re: How to recognise legal music downloads
	Hi Leonard The fines you have seen advertised were imposed on serial file sharers - people who have been downloading and ...

Stuart

15/06/05 23:36

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