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If you HAVE a copyrighted song forwhich you don't have the copyright owners permission (which is what you pay for), it's a violation of copyright. No site can make that legal, no matter what they say. (And no record company gives you permission to own their music for free.) Either you pay or you do without, whether it's music or a car. "Needing" something, or not wanting to pay for it, is not justification for theft. (Downloading music without the owner's permission is theft of intellectual property - a crime of the same severity as theft of any other property.) If you're caught and sued (or, if you're a minor, when your parents are sued), they'll have to pay whatever judgment is assessed against them - even if they "can't pay $150,000", or whatever it is. (That's less than one woman had to pay for her daughter's "free" music.)