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I remember, browsing Napster and coming up with, of all things, a recording of the Red Army Choir singing “His Truth is Marching on.” The humor and wit that went into this recording, the way that the idea of “his truth” was implicitly reworked to refer to the revolution which they were participating in, was as captivating as the beautiful music itself. This was in the good old days, before the record industries began a series of draconian lawsuits, ruining people's lives for the crime of sharing a few songs.

If you haven't tried downloading mp3 music, then you're truly missing out on a whole new world of entertainment. While we were completely limited back in the 80's with our walkmans, and didn't get too much more advanced in the 90s with our diskmans, the mp3 player offers it all. Try downloading 1000 songs onto a compact device and sticking it in your pocket. If you're downloading mp3 music via the Internet, you can basically pick and choose whatever you want.

Music is the best!

It is difficult to take their arguments against downloading music software seriously when their actions are so much worse than those of music pirates. Users of services like Ares, Soulseek, or bittorrent may be getting something for nothing, but any individual user does little or nothing to hurt the record industry. The record industry, because with their powerful lobbyists they practically write the laws, can sue people for tens of thousands of dollars for using downloading music software to get literally a few songs. Even if they are right, and the illegal downloading music software is driving them out of business, it is hard to have much sympathy for an industry which is willing to go to such draconian lengths to protect their investments. Perhaps we would all be better off without them.

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Don't go out and buy an entire CD of songs that you probably don't even like. Jump online and check out the various sites that allow downloading mp3 music to your new Ipod. There is a sea of great tunes out there. With the technology at our fingertips, there is no reason why you can't have your cake and eat it to. Only download the songs you love. In the end you will have a plethora of music at a low cost. It doesn't get any better than that. Start downloading mp3 music today and get every song you want, without all the extra stuff. It's time to take advantage of technology.

Of course, there are alternatives for downloading music software to Ares and Soulseek, and the like. There are dozens of services where, for often fairly reasonable fees, users can download songs from the internet. This is a good idea, and might go part way to establishing an alternative to pirate downloading. These sites are especially good if you are looking for mainstream music, but if you look for music that is a little more obscure, like I do, they really just don't cut it. The choice is to use pirate sites for downloading music software, or spend months trying to get the cds in used record stores, which doesn't benefit the recording industry anyway.