legality playlist.com

Hi im questioning the legality of this website http://www.playlist.com/

my brother showed it to me but I always go by this saying wich is true most of the time. TNFL (No its not The National Football League ;)) it means Theres No Free Lunch

It just seems to good to be true to have all of these songs for free

At a glance it looks like a search engine geared towards playing tunes from sites such as Facebook and MySpace, etc.

Well, I'm under the (possibly mistaken) impression that music on those sites are licensed for site usage. If playlist/com allows you to listen to these tunes I don't see a problem. The problem only occurs if you are given the opportunity to save these tunes to your harddrive.

Of course problem or not, I wouldn't personally worry. The music industry can die for all I care.

Assuming they do what they say they do - play legal music from other sites - they are legit. If not, well, they'll be in court eventually, but it's not your problem.

Which I've just currently done as a test by downloading what I do know is a copyrighted piece of music...

I have the original music anyway... But, you can grab links to the MP3's that is played through their player!

Looks like they are'nt as legit as it seems.

Dabz

I am with dabhand on this one. That was exactly why I was asking. And even if you couldnt do that you can use audacity to internally record it.

I would say it's legal as long as they have permission, and the other websites (sources) also have permission. In other words, it's probably illegal. ;)

From their copyright text:


I used to listen to pandora.com, really a great system that "computes" what music you may like based on previous choices, unfortunately due to certain laws they now restrict its use to people living in the US.

i miss not being able to dowload from myspace bands i liked (without going the backdoor aproach)
as id only listen to my music on mp3 players when out and about and ignor what hmv was piping out unless it was too loud to listen to my stuff
and if a song from myspace came up that i liked whilst shopping id go out and look for the cd, but without the song the band associated with it kinda goes bye byes
mind you they hampered this by not having propper id tags when you could download so id have to manually enter in the gumph instead of the hexadecimal number-track that was the same as the mp3 file

i tend to not look at band myspaces unless looking for interesting gigs that i saw in the upcoming events of the local rag and see if they sound like i should be seeing them

Well, it was a Jean Michel Jarre tune, and there was a list a mile long of his greatest pieces... I hardly doubt Mr Jarre would allow the contents of his Images album to be distributed freely. :)

Dabz

Question is, do you really care :/

A playlist is just a text list which you could write with Notepad too. Self-made text files and Notepad are legal.

The problem occurs when the site lets you download and store the mp3s on your harddrive, which this site appears to do.

Internet is not a country, legality depends on where you live.