Legal Music Download Sites

While surfing on the internet or while searching for content for your iPod, you may have stumbled upon various websites that provide or claim to provide free iPod content like videos and music. Even though you may have seen plenty of websites that provide free content, using these websites can be dangerous for your computer and may even lead you to unknowingly participate in the web of video/music piracy. There have been many instances of copyright infringement related to the illegal download of copyrighted audio and other media that is shared or distributed through internet.

Whether you are a computer user who is new to the web technology or someone who is familiar with legal as well as illegal methods to download files on the internet, the web is full of ways by which even an experienced computer user is sometimes made into believing that he/she is downloading legal content for his/her iPod. Many people unknowingly download music, movies and even TV shows on to their computer and then transfer it to their iPod or iPhone. Avoiding such websites that can land you on the wrong side of the law is the best possible thing.

While there are many illegal websites circling the internet, there are also websites that provide legal iPod music and other iPod downloads but at a price. Websites like iTunes provide iPod music and iPod videos at a fraction of the cost. Just like iTunes, there are various other websites that provide the facility of downloading legal iPod downloads. As more and more such websites sprout on the internet, iPod users will get cheaper and better access to the iPod digital downloads.

Illegal file-sharing websites have been a problem for both the entertainment industry as well as the legal file sharing websites that take money for the services they provide. There have been many crackdowns on the illegal file sharing networks and services in the past and many of them have resulted against the favor of illegal file sharing companies but the sheer number of these websites makes it almost impossible for anyone to keep a check on the content that is being shared on the internet. While the battle of the two titans continues, legal music distribution companies have decided to fight back with the help of legal alternative of illegal media sharing websites.

These legal alternatives of illegal media file sharing networks provide 100% legal content with various perks that make them have a neck to neck competition with illegal file sharing websites. One of the best tricks that are adopted by legal music download websites are free music downloads on their membership and other attractive gifts that makes them irresistible.

The legal music download websites and their special features are:

• Napster – Having a collection of over 500,000 songs, this website provides up to 50 free digital downloads.
• eMusic – This site also provides the ability to download 50 free music tracks with its membership
• Musicmatch – With the great membership plans that this website has, Musicmatch is also a good radio service.
• Realrhapsody – The 14 day trial of this website allows its users to download various tracks and try their service before using it.