I have a very large digital music file and until recently I have been able to hack the iTunes code from the music I purchased there. But iTunes 6 is bullet proof so everything purchased since about December is limited to iTunes/iPod, thus not playable on other mp3 players. Much to my delight I have found an awsome sight that has cut my purchase price to about 1 cent per MB or $1.20 per album a 90% savings! and very legal.

Let me know if you have any experiances with the foreign sites.

Legal. Yeah right. That's what they said about Napster before they got shut down.

Limewire works for me.

I checked out Limewire, it is p2p and I am staying away from that. Like C_C mentioned about Napster I think p2p is a little too open for me. allofmp3 it is an eastern europe based company operating under Russian law
The price difference is said to reflect what the International Market will support. i.e $.99 for 1 song would be 1/2 of a days wage for a lot of Russians and this is about 10 - 12 cents/song.

Here is some info from the company.

Browse our huge catalogue
There are hundreds of thousands of albums in our catalogue - from all-time hits to hot releases, soundtracks to movies and computer games as well as audio books. Some 30 new albums are added everyday.

Preview
Listen before buying. You can either download a low quality sample or listen to it immediately in a streaming audio format.

Choose the quality and price of the download
Our audio-encoding platform offers several format and quality (bit rate) download options. This unique technology allows our users to choose the preferred file format (MP3, WMA, OGG, etc.) as well as file size — or you can simply go with the default download settings (MP3/192 kbps).

Original quality
There is also an advanced "Online Encoding Exclusive" (OEEX) feature for retaining the original quality of a recording in the following formats: Monkey's Audio, WMA 9 Lossless, FLAC, and OptimFrog. OEEX enables you to encode music using the original audio source — a compact disc.

I found this link it makes more sense than I can.

http://www.museekster.com/allofmp3info.htm

Nothing wrong with p2p, all you are doing is more or less borrowing a song from somebody. Whats the difference when you go ask your bud, dude can I borrow that cd? Same thing as this p2p, borrowing or giveing away a song. Now those that download the whole cd I can see should be after but there is no way of knowing what they download. I don't download songs as much as I did when I first found napster, now maybe a few songs here and there.

Nothing wrong with p2p, all you are doing is more or less borrowing a song from somebody. Whats the difference when you go ask your bud, dude can I borrow that cd? Same thing as this p2p, borrowing or giveing away a song.

Big difference. You borrowing from a bud really is sharing. You making it available for anyone with a connection is called distribution. You do not have the right to do that. That right is retained by the creator of the work or to anyone he or she has transferred the right to, as it should be.

You really don't have the right to give away the works on a individual basis either, but I can not understand how people don't see the difference between giving a tape to a friend and distributing it to thousands of people. I also don't see the logic in saying that since someone's work can be digitized, then they must surrender all their rights of control of that work to the consumer so they can get stuff for free...

Bottom line is that if the copyright holder has not given the service or the individual the right to distribute their works, it is illegal, no matter what anyone says.

Because if you sell copyrighted material then yea you are violating it, but giveing it away they can't do a thing about it, because you are giveing it away and not selling it to make a profit. I know this becasue a coworker makes fishing lures, if he can get a hold of original he can copy it. There was anew lure made and release with a 5 week waiting list and only you could buy just one, he got a hold of it, took it apart studied it and copyed it, he gave them to a buddy of his that fished a turnny, they wanted to know who and where he got those from. They tried to go after him for copyright law, but they can't becasuse he didn't sell them he gave them away. So giveing a song away is not violating copyright because its not being sold, if you downloaded a cd then sold it yourself to make profit off of it then yes that is violating copyright. Why if I download songs for somebody they have to give me blank cd and I get the songs for them and then give there cd back, no exchange of money so nothing can be down casue it was given away.