Legal Issues
Note: Some of these sources guarantee legal downloads (like Amazon). Others are aggregators and search engines that may or may not include links to pirated songs. We don't condone piracy, but we sure do encourage readers to support musicians in their music-making endeavors. Lots of working musicians offer free downloads of their music to advertise. So go ahead and explore the "long tail," sample music from artists you never heard, and then head over to their web site and buy the album.
Silly disclaimer about 'dangerous' links:
Some web-ignorant and not execessively smart legislators have decided that by setting a link on his pages, any author is responsible for the content of the linked page.
Yep, it's absurd, I know, but that's what happen when you let lawyers escape their zoos and roam the web.
Said author can only protect himself if he is distancing himself from "dubious contents".
I happen to link to other pages in the internet. For all these links, I would like to point out that I don’t have any influence regarding design and contents of the linked pages.
I keep the outmost distance from all contents of all pages linked from my sites.
I am taking explicite distance from all contents of all linked pages on my sites and I don't call the contents of the linked pages my own.
I strongly emphasise that I do not have any influence on the design and contents of the linked pages.
This disclaimer belongs to all links that appear on my sites.
We are not responsible for the content of this Publisher's Description. We encourage you to determine whether this product or your intended use is legal. We do not encourage or condone the use of any software in violation of applicable laws.
National copyright laws:
Recording from broadcast is legal in the United States as protected by the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992.
Downloads (not uploads like p2p) for private usage are legal in Netherland, spain and some other EU countries.
Links are never illegal in Sweden. (see www.piratebay.org).
No guarantee for legal situation in any given country at any given time. Copyright is changing during next years. Homosexuality was illegal some years ago and that was changed too. Why not copyright? So please inform yourself, what is current copyright situation in your country and respect the rules.