Napster is a website that allows people to download music through the internet without compensating the artist
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People were recording music off the radio years ago and nobody was sued.
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You don't have to be confined to Napster for music, especially if they are inconsiderate to the point of not making a mac version of their product.\nI would recommend iTunes or my personal favorite, eMusic (http://www.emusic.com/).\nIf you really need Napster you can run it using Boot Camp.\nhttp://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
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There are quiet a few ways to get music off the Internet. I won't go into the legalities of all of them. Obviously, if you are getting someones copyrighted material without paying, then that's probably not legal. \n\nThere are services that you can use to get music that WILL pay the artists who created the songs. The most popular are probably...\n\nApple iTunes -> http://www.itunes.com\nNapster -> http://www.napster.com\nand even WalMart -> http://www.walmart.com/swap/SwapEntry.do?dslURL=/swap/LoadMain.do%3FmainCategoryId%3D2500\n\nAll of these services will sell you songs between .85 and $1.00 per song or so.\n\nThere are quite a few services advertised on Clickbank that make the promise that for a one time membership fee, you can download an unlimited number of songs. Here are those services. I cannot attest to how well they work, so research them by visiting them...\n\nUnlimited Download Center -> http://watersaffl.udc01.hop.clickbank.net?tid=YAHOOANS\nMovie Downloads.com -> http://watersaffl.movies01.hop.clickbank.net?tid=YAHOOANS\nUnlimited MP3 Music -> http://watersaffl.gamecity.hop.clickbank.net?tid=YAHOOANS\nHot MP3 Downloads -> http://watersaffl.mp3hot.hop.clickbank.net?tid=YAHOOANS\n\nI have had good luck finding music on BitTorrent sites. BitTorrent is an Internet protocol for moving very large files. It's not the same as P2P (limewire and such), but it relies on other users in the BitTorrent community leaving their music files available. I have often been frustrated by downloading a song or album only to find that after it downloads 95%, it stops because not enough BitTorrent seeders have kept the files available. The upside to BitTorrents are that they download extremely fast! \n\nYou'll need a BitTorrent client to download torrents. I use Azureus. It's a free and very nice client application that you can get here...\nhttp://azureus.sourceforge.net/\n\n\nYou'll also need a few BitTorrent tracker sites. Here are a few to get you started...\nTorrentSpy -> http://www.torrentspy.com/\nThe Pirates Bay -> http://thepiratebay.org/\nISO Hunt -> http://isohunt.com/\nMiniNova -> http://www.mininova.org\n\nFinally, I have had great luck finding unknown artists by using an NNTP News Server. NNTP is an old Bulletin Board type of protocol. NNTP means Network News Transport Protocol. But the NNTP community has evolved into about 50,000 different 'channels' that cover every imaginable subject and there is a way to 'encode' binary files to place them on these NNTP groups. For music, music is grouped into different 'genres'. For example, I download Jazz and Reggae from two different channels. It is not easy to find any particular song or artist, so I just download everything in a group and often find songs and artists that I've never heard of before.\n\nTo download music from NNTP groups, you'll need a News Reader. There are some free ones out there. I use this one...\nhttp://www.newsbinpro.com/\n\nWell, that ought to keep you busy for a while! Good luck!
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The music (songs and albums, if you can get them) on music sharing peer-to-peer networks are usually unauthorized illegal copies of music.  Downloading copyrighted music from these sources constitutes theft.\n\nSubscription music services allow you to rent and play songs and whole albums on your PC for as little as $5 a month.  For as little as $10 a month, you can transfer these songs to a compatible MP3 player (PlaysForSure subscription compatible).\n\nI have over 1300 songs on my player that I'm renting which works out to about a penny a month per song.  That is darned near "Free" and it is completely legal.\n\nCheck out Yahoo Music Unlimited To Go, Rhapsody To Go, or Napster To Go.
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I download music for free and legitimately using Kazaa.  I heard Limewire is good and I used to use Morpheus.
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It's free to anyone who wants to use it, I found the first couple times I used it I got my music pretty fast download wise. After awhile though registered users get their music before unresgistered (paying customers) do.
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Before you download Limewire they'll make you agree to the statement that you won't be using Limewire for illegal filesharing.  It doesn't stop anybody, but its their insurance.  I don't believe Napster had that.
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No, it is just a hyperlink to link you to Napster.com
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yes ,napster is free for download but it is not free if you are downloading it from Napster.com
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Limewire is the best P2P program. As for "websites", there aren't any good ones that offer good music.
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Do you mean peer-to-peer application of Napster. Napster is a net protocol used for sharing files among users, the files are transferred from a user to another user directly, no need to pass through server. The server only offers users the ability to search for particular files and initiate a direct transfer between the clients. So a computer with a client application based on this protocol can download files from another computer which installed the same client application. You can image how many computers connected through internet and how many files stored on these computers. there are music, movies, applications, etc...  Users sharing these sources conveniently, efficiently. However, without the licence of the owner invited problems.that is why  there is such a huge fight around it right now.
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You can check on Napster. They are letting you listen to alot of thier music for free, although the quality isn't the best. Thats one of the few legal ways I know of.
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Limewire.com is, unless you upgrade. I heard Napster is free again but haven't looked into it.
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NO WAY!  The first year Napster was in existence, there were record sales in CD's.  I thing the effect of downloading has caused artists to make better records.  No more buying a record for one good song.  The public is tired of it.  That's all I have to say about that.
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there aren't any sites like that because it's illegal and they usual get shut down. but you can either get a filesharing program like morpheus or something. or do what I do which is download this program called bitcomet, then you go on a site like torrentspy.com and there is a lot of music you can download, and usually you download whole albums at a time which is better than filesharing where you download songs individually.
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napster is now giving away their service for free.  it's a legit site now...
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Well, I haven't tried it, but Limewire is said to be a great program for finding most any music.  I don't think you'll be able to download any music without first downloading a program, regardless of what you use.