For most people, downloading music is as easy as opening your Web browser or a peer-to-peer file-sharing software, the selection of songs you want, and their transfer to an MP3 player. But according to the country of residence (or country, is often) when downloading, make laws for downloading music a lot and are usually very vague what you can get into trouble.

The most important information on the laws of copyright as digitalWritten copies of copyrighted material is The U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act The bill, which passed in 1998, was extended for some other things to expand the scope of copyright and limits the liability of of on-line for copyright infringement by users.

First, the laws for downloading music are now under consideration, or create new technologies, equipment or services to use the actions that bypass the access to copyrighted works of a crime. Digital Right ManagementTools are software based, CD and most of the legal download music from the Internet it was done in a way not provided by the provider to avoid - and how to restrict users to copy or duplicate the product. Hackers and crackers, that are created and made the tools available to the material of the strip DRM tools are now responsible for helping to distribute illegal copies of copyrighted material.

Secondly, the laws for downloading music increases the penalties for copyrightLesions, particularly on the Internet. There were more than 20,000 complaints against the perpetrators of peer-to-peer, argued that were uploaded copyrighted music, and even those who download them. The law allows those guilty of infringement can communicate with up to three years in prison and $ 250,000 in fines. Repeat offenders can be jailed up to six years. The individual is not civilly liable for actual damages or loss of profits or statutory damages up to $ 150,000Copyright infringement.

The next objective of the four largest record companies, under the Recording Industry Association of America, is the peer-to-peer file-sharing companies. U.S. Code prohibits any person or corporation "to make copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership or lease, or too much." However, the RIAA is not that the peer-to-peer file sharing to demonstrate against the code. It is questionable whetherDissemination of such works, not only in the right direction, not to index most of these networks does not host any copyrighted material, but. "For the public" is also in question because it was argued that file-sharing programs are used by a limited group of people. However, there have been cases of successful civil (as opposed to criminal proceedings against) the use of peer-to-peer sharing bound, so that using them is risky.

In general, the laws are for downloadMusic will allow you to purchase music and then copy for their own use, but if you try to copy for others (including small), you're about to enter the territory of copyright infringement.

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