1. Pay for use
The major issue facing the recording industry is how to get paid for all the music that is being downloaded, swapped and sold online. If you are using a legal music download service, there should be a fee per song, per month or per year to have continued access to the accomadation .

In keeping with the spirit of the internet, most of the major legal music sites are offering free of price mp3 files just for signing up, for keeping your subscription current and in general obeying the rules of the page .

Note: Usually, there is an extensive trial period. If you really want free of price music, you can sign up for multiple sites and get access to hundreds of costless mp3 downloads for little or no funds up front.

2. Size Limits
The legal music download sites mostly distribute music from reputable labels and artists. This means, that you will not find extensive mixes, and custom files that will slow down your connection and take forever to download. Also, the relatively small files gives some assurance to the music retail industry that a site is actually selling music files and not illegal video games or movies which may be hundreds of times larger.

3. Volume limits
Legal music download sites usually distribute their material on a per song basis. One of the major advantages of buying your music online is that you dont have to spend $17 for an entire album if you only want 3 or 4 songs. The legal sites will set up song volume limits as well as document transfer limits. This prevents unscrupulous customers from setting up their computers to copy hundreds of files in a few hours.

Note: even if you are music fan Really, why would you absolutely need 300 songs at once?

4. Larger databases, Larger costs
One peculiarity of the legal music download stores and file sharing services is that variety comes with a price. The larger, more established services will give you access to hundreds of thousands of song, but it will cost you. Expect to pay an average of $1-$3 per song. If you work it out, the average album will most definately cost a little bit more than a CD from Wal-Mart or Target.

Keep in mind, that legal music download sites must give a portion of their fees back to the recording industry. Also, the songs are not disposable since the sound quality probably wont degrade over instant. Even CDs may get scratched and lose their quality after a while.

5. Limited Choice
Most of the legal music download sites do not have the capacity or