If you're resourceful enough and you don't like the idea of downloading torrents, chances are you should be able to search your way directly to an MP3 file of the song that you are looking for. However there are some people out there who may not know that downloading MP3 files are illegal, because whoever taught them to probably just told them that this was a way to get free music. Ignorance, however, is not an excuse in the eyes of the law, which is why a music body, the Performing Rights Society (PRS) for Music wants search engines to show which sites offer content illegally.
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