Reply #5: Personally, I prefer to purchase my music. [View All]

[Xithras]

I have better things to do with my time than to spend days going through poorly ripped MP3s with no track data, inconsistent album names, etc. I'd rather buy my music from a service like AllOfMP3. It's not free, but I know that the rips are of consistently high quality and are 100% guranteed to work perfectly, every time. Free services may be useful for college kids and people with lots of time on their hands, but I just want to get my music and go. If I spend 10 minutes putting an album together and loading it onto my MP3 player, that's about 9 minutes more than I WANT to spend. *click* *Buy Album* *click* *Download* *click* *Copy to Player* Done.

And to answer your question, of course it's illegal. The laws say you can't do it, therefore it's illegal. Now, whether it's wrong is a completely different question. Lots of things are illegal, but aren't actually wrong.