The online music segment has now almost taken shape of a regularised industry. Although the demon of music piracy is still looms large but the future seems to be bright with newer ideas. But the contentious issue of online music sharing is refusing to die down. Music download sites are making there presence felt all over the web as more and more people are downloading music illegally. This has hit the music industry badly but now things are changing a little bit.

Independent researchers have discovered the fact that people who share music online also spend a lot on buying music legally. This further substantiates the finding of The Leading Question, a digital music research firm who found out that they spent four and a half times more on paid-for music downloads than average fans! These fans are just crazy about songs and performances of their idols and go to any length to enrich their respective music collections by quality music!

If that means spending money most of them are game for it and if that means downloading music that is pirated (but free) from free music download sites they are not averse to it either! Such is the craze of music amongst these ‘musical fanatics’ they need to carry their favourite playlist with them all the time. Here’s where the online music download phenomenon comes into the picture as most of the music fans carry a MP3 player or a MP3 music player integrated mobile phone that satiates there need to listen to music 24x7, for most of them it is there addiction.

They download the music from the free music download sites or buy it from a registered site or a portal. They are game to do just about anything to get hold of the latest chartbuster on the block or even if it is the classic Elvis or Beatles number, all one needs to do is to tap the right resource. Now what is the definition of right simply depends on the user!