You stay on right path by looking for sties that occasionally provide free mp3 files for their site visitors. The free music files are usually posted at beginning of a site subscription, when new albums are looking for publicity, or beginning of month.

By getting your music from these types of sites that are open about their free mp3 downloads you are showing that you respect, and intend to comply with national copyright laws.

If you look at types of consumers that have been targeted by RIAA and other industry associations, it is their careless regard for music laws and download volume requirements that bring them to attention of legal authorities.

Sites are constantly in flux Now, even if you intend to stay away from illegal downloads, you cannot simply trust information from a particular websites. The status of various file sharing networks are constantly changing as they go through sue-counter sue-negotiation –settle with artists and musicians cycle.

Usually if a site is in process of getting sued, you can find some type of legal information on their background by typing their name into any major search engine. Sometimes, they might even be bold and place copies of lawsuit or other types of documents on their website regarding their status.

In either case, if you are in doubt, look around site a bit before you start taking advantage of their free music download offers.

So what gets searched?

Kazaa, iMesh, Grokster, Gnutella, eDonkey, G2, Limewire and more.

They recently came out on winning side of a lawsuit for copyright infringement so I think they are in a pretty good place right now. Of course, this doesn’t mean that you are not liable if you download copyrighted content using their service. As with their counterparts, you can get an ad supported free version, or you can go for ad free and pop up free paid version.

If you get free version of this or any other file sharing application, you should always have most up to date virus protection, pop up blocking software and firewall protection. You never know what’s in those files.