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Originally Posted by GlitterKill

I have to ask... is it LEGAL to put commercial songs up for listening like that?

This question has been answered previously on this thread, however I will answer it again.

The **AA is an american body, and does not have worldwide control of laws relating to music. Some countries have laws which allows anyone to legally place music on their websites, for streaming, etc.

Other exclusions include bands/artists that like to promote themselves freely over the internet, there are many US websites that employ this already.

There are also contradictions on this issue, in some countries it is legal to listen to streaming music, but illegal to download. This is where a loophole exists since if music is streamed, it is also 'cached', meaning it would be available in your browsers cache.

Then you have other various other combinations, example - you are hosting mp3's on a server which is based in a country where streaming is perfectly legal, but you are based in a country where it is illegal to listen to streaming music.

You also find there are sites that allow you to use their music legally. So it really is a difficult question, regarding legal issues. It depends, if the tracks are illegal in your country (if hosted on servers within your country), if the artist/band offers their music for free for promotion (1,000's do nowadays), there is so many loopholes, really to know where an actual person stands.

So many people have used this modification on their websites to specifically allow their members to stream their own music they have recorded themselves, and just want others to listen to their music for free.

This modification itself is free to use, but how it is implemented is another matter and legalities is just another issue. I've had many requests for using multiple playlists, so people can have their own recordings in separate playlists - I will be adding this into the major release at a later date.