Secreted Overhead For Obtaining Free Music

By Author: Isaiah Henry
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Music is an age old method for relaxing. Listening to music is one of the most favored ways of spending leisure time. There is not a single person in this world whose life has been untouched by music. But collecting music can turn out to be an expensive way of keeping yourself happy.

The saying goes: "Music soothes the savage beast". Well, you probably are not going to try and test the theory, but if you have a teenager, you know music is the main method of relaxation.

There are umpteen websites and file sharing networks where you can find music downloads for free, or for very low subscriptions. Practically all the music on offer on such portals or networks is copyright protected � rights that they do not honor.

Can you burn a CD with the downloaded music? The answer to all doubts you have about the use of downloaded music will be in the terms and conditions of the website.

Take time to read it to know if it is the right site for what you want to do with the music downloads. Unless you are careful ...
... you might without knowledge end up downloading and using copyright music, making you a cyber criminal.

Naturally, the site is taken down and revamped to do the right thing and provide services to burn and download music, but it is not exactly free. Users are required to pay a subscription fee to download music to their computers. If people want to burn it to a CD, the subscription fee, to unlock the capability increases.

Some sites will allow music to be heard only when you logged into the website. Some will give you a subscription and once it expires you need to renew your subscription to enjoy your music with the website, or you can kiss your song lists good bye.

There is also music that is available under �Creative Commons� or other such free licenses. The latter is available free. In fact, it is supposed not to be charged for. However, practically all major artistes and labels do not release work under such license.

Different websites charge you for the music in different ways. Some charge a fixed fee for unlimited downloads, some sell complete albums, while most also offer pay-per-track downloads. Most websites also charge a small subscription / membership fee regardless of the payment pattern for actually downloading the music.

Be careful or you may break copyright laws. Be cautious or you may end up paying for music you had no intention to buy. Take care or your year�s worth of online music collection may go up in smoke because you did not renew your subscription. Be shrewd or you may pay more than you budgeted.