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Whether the music has a copyright. Non-copyrighted music can generally be downloaded and shared freely. If it has a copyright, the owner of the copyright must give permission for the website to offer the music for download. If they do not, then both the site providing the music for download and the person downloading it are violating the law. Note that snippets of music may be downloaded if they fall under the "fair use" doctrine - but you'd better be sure you understand what does and does not fall under that definition if you want to be honest.

Many download sites are also vectors for malware. Since a large fraction - if not the majority - of those sites are engaging in something illegal by offering to supply a copyrighted product without reimbursing the copyright holder, it should come as no surprise that they might be doing other nefarious things like trying to infect your computer with malware. You should know whether the download site is one of those risky sites before you download from it.

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