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publication date: Mar 10, 2011
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author/source: Chris Prang
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Here is a relatively easy way to download music to your iTunes or MP3 player without paying for it. But is it right to do so?

I enjoy music and I enjoy a variety of music. I currently have 1164 songs in iTunes. Why I need any more, I don't know.

A few months back I discovered a way to get my music for free. It all started when I was trying to find a particular song in iTunes and it wasn't there. So I went to YouTube and searched there and found it. Now that I found it, the question was, how do I get a YouTube video onto or into my iTunes? So I did what any thinking person would do, I Googled, "YouTube to MP3" or "YouTube to iTunes." And sure enough, I found a host of Websites that allow you to paste in the html link for the YouTube video/song and it converts it an MP3 file in usually less than 60 seconds.

After the file is converted to MP3, you can download it onto your computer and add it to iTunes. Pretty slick and the quality is good.

But I am left with two questions:
  1. Is this legal? Meaning, is it copyright infringement?
  2. Why haven't the music police crashed the party like they did with Napster years ago and ban this type of file/music sharing?
Here are two Websites that try to answer the question:
It seems the consensus might be that if I download it and use strictly for myself, then that is fine, but if I share it with others then that is copyright infringement.

For me personally, I have little interest nor intent to share copies with others. My main interest is to listen to the same music on my computer and iPod that I can listen to on YouTube. But there are times that I can not find the audio anywhere else (which is how I got started with all of this in the first place) and in some cases I may download it and burn it to a disk to hand out to someone. I personally see no issue with this for two reasons:
  1. I am not selling it to them and profitting from it
  2. They can go listen to it for free themselves
So I know what you are saying now...where to I go to convert YouTube videos to an MP3? Easy, simply Google "YouTube to MP3" and a host of sites that convert YouTube videos to MP# will pop up. Just try some of them.

If doing this is illegal, then:
  1. It shouldn't be
  2. But if it is, then please let me know...with proof of course

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