How Many Songs On Your iPod? Legal? Not Legal?

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 | Polls & Surveys | Read or Post a Comment

iPod Our anonymous reader Mac Poll strikes again. This time the question is simple and difficult at the same time. How many songs do you carry on your iPod? 100? 500? Over 1,000?

Better yet, how many of those songs are downloaded “legally” vs. downloaded from peer-to-peer, like the old Napster: “not legal?” Readers voted. You can too. Anonymously, of course. And there’s that article from Boston…

The killer application on both Macs and PCs in recent years has been music.... (excerpted).

9 Reader Comments

Mike said:

I got a Zune just 1 month ago. I downloaded them all illegaly until I heard the news and my computer broke down. Now I download them all legally.

Legal: 46
Illegal: 52
Total: 98

RobertaK said:

I have over 16000 songs, and all of them are legal except for one—a download of Rusty Warren’s “Bounce Yer Boobies” because it wasn’t legally available anywhere else.

All the rest are either iTunes purchases or ripped from CDs that I own.

bruce said:

7000 songs and 120 movies. 90% “non-legal”

Jared B. said:

I must be the jackass of this thread. Allot and I bought all of them from Itunes. Not one illegal song. If I could not afford to buy the music then I would be stealing it also.

Don’t take that last sentence up there the wrong way people. Some people choose to buy and some choose to steal no matter what their financial situation is.

Hope you don’t get caught or do I?

Robert said:

7568 songs, most illegally downloaded.
I have no guilt and I also have a reason:

I would feel guilty if I listened to them, but they are there to brag about my collection, I dont actually LISTEN to them.
The songs that I would listen to are bought in HMV, ripped and synced, to support the singers.

For instance, I have Michael Jacksons album: “No. 1s”, which I bought for €9.95, and I also have Pet Sounds, which I downloaded illegally, but only because its classed as one of the best albums of all time, and I have never listened to a song on my computer OR my iPod!

Point Made!!!

DubD said:

10176. Just bought an external hard drive to store them all! Illegal or legal? That does not really matter if you ask me :D

EITLtd said:

I don’t believe that the iPod itself encourages illegal downloads, but torrent sites and programs certainly do. They are incredibly addictive and easy to use. Once someone learns what is available, they are hooked. It is like giving the keys to a toy store to a small child. One quickly fills up hard drives in a downloading frenzy.

james said:

i have 6000 songs, about 99 percent of them illegally downloaded. i love it.

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