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Posted on | December 27, 2007 |

Group warns of sites offering unlicensed music

People who received MP3 players as holiday gifts may want to steer clear of some Web sites that claim to offer legal music but don’t have licensing agreements with major music labels, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) said.

CDT, a consumer rights group, has published a list of more than 30 MP3 download sites that don’t have licensing deals with major U.S. music labels. The sites, which charge between $20 and $35 for subscriptions, say they offer music from artists signed to the major labels, CDT said.

Consumers should be aware of the sites on the list because in some cases, they may simply provide subscribers popular peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software that’s otherwise free, said David Sohn, CDT’s senior policy counsel. And customers using P-to-P software to trade unauthorized music files could face lawsuits from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), he said.

“People might get the false impression of what they paid for was legal,” Sohn said. “If you pay $25, you might think that $25 goes to compensate the rights holder.” The CDT tried to contact the operators of each site on its MP3 warning list. In each case, the site operators did not respond.

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