I Music lovers finding ways : around illegal downloading

to decipher if the wine was white or red and whether the wine was from the east or west coast. There was four wines in all, two white and two red.

The tasting was held for the benefit of the Adult Continuing Education Scholarship Fund. The scholarship is an investment of $25,000 dollars or more, that gains interest and the recipient gets the interest of that $25,000 dollars. The scholarship was made to keep the Adult Learners, or non-traditional students that are 23 years and older at Cabrini who are interested and connected to the school. The founders of the program are Judy Bradley and Steve Highsmith. They are on the Continuing Education Board, which is comprised completely of non-traditional graduates.

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Free stuff is non-existent, especially music. In this makemoney-quick society, everything has a dollar amount on it. While it wasn't totally legal in the past, the idea of file sharing consisting of songs traded from user to user over the Internet on your home PC, was swept under the carpet. However, the mess is being cleaned up and dealt with across the country.

The Recording Industry Association of America has recently cracked down and taken this issue to the courtroom. Downloading music and sharing it across the information superhighway was deemed illegal once again by the RJAA, but this time enforced. However, the sharing of music would be permitted if a fee-based downloading service was in full effect, but the idea is slow to form.

iTunes, an online music marketplace that is totally legal has been created by Apple, the same company that produces Macintosh computers. The iTunes program has always existed on the desktops of Apple users, however the recent unveiling of the latest music program is available to Windows users as well. The new music store offers people behind the keyboard the opportunity to purchase songs they wish to hear, for 99 cents per song. This alternative is not only legal, but it gives the original artist some additional credit