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Read the following article and then check the sites below to become more informed about what is legal and what is illegal when downloading music from the internet. Songs off the internet and illegally share them with others….. =Court orders Boston University student Joel Tenenbaum to pay $675G for illegally downloading music= BY Leo Standora DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Friday, July 31st 2009, 9:15 PM Tesfaye/AP Joel Tenenbaum, a graduate student, has been ordered to fork over $675,000 to four record companies for illegally downloading songs.

Paying the Price
Will the $675,000 judgement discourage you from downloading music illegally? Yes, it's so cheap now why bother doing it illegally. No, I'll keep downloading, who cares about corporate profits. A Boston University grad student was ordered to pay four record labels $675,000 Friday for illegally downloading and sharing songs on the Internet - but he's not singing the blues. "I'm disappointed, but I'm thankful it wasn't millions," said Joel Tenenbaum, a 25-year-old doctoral student in physics. "To me it sends a message of 'We considered your side with some legitimacy.'" If the verdict stands after a planned appeal, Tenenbaum said he'll file for bankruptcy to cut his losses. A Boston federal court jury took just three hours to agree that Tenenbaum "willfully" infringed on the copyrights of 30 songs, including Nirvana's "Comes As You Are" and  Nine Inch Nails' "The Perfect Drug." The jury awarded the labels $22,500 for each infringement. But the songs at issue were only the tip of the iceberg. On the witness stand Tenenbaum unapologetically admitted downloading more than 800 songs from 1999 to 2007 on his home computer in Rhode Island and at college in  Maryland. Often smiling at the jury, he explained he grew up in a family that loves and plays music - his mother is a professional harpist who appeared in court every day - and that music-sharing networks made it easy for him to get the songs he liked. Green Day, the Ramones,  Smashing Pumpkins and  Aerosmith also were among his favorite artists. The jury could have ordered him to pay as much as $150,000 for each of the downloaded songs - or $4.5 million total. It was just the nation's second music downloading case against an individual to go to trial. A Minneapolis federal jury last month ordered  Jammie Thomas-Rasset, 32, to pay $1.92 million for copyright violations involving 24 songs. [|lstandora@nydailynews.com]

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When is downloading music on the internet Illegal?

What isn't so simple about downloading music is the copyright protection laws that people break everyday by downloading some music tracks off the Internet. To make matters even more muddled, laws regarding the sharing and downloading of music on the Internet vary from country to country.

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