1. Music Downloads By
Garen Mirzoian

2. Paid Providers
Rhapsody
Napster
ITunes

3. Free Providers
Direct Connect
Kazaa

4. Rhapsody $9.95 Per month for All Access, or $4.95 for Premium Radio
All access Allows for Radio as well as CD burning capabilities
Lets Individuals burn CDs for $.79 per song
Premium Radio Allows access to more than 80 commercial free Internet Radio Stations (permits user to skip past unwanted songs)

5. Advantages
900,000+ Track Count (2002 figures), more than 50,000 albums
Rhapsody inked deals with all five major record labels and more than 100 Indies
Offers music from more than 500 Independent Labels
Allows user to create and share his/her Playlist
User friendly, provides background information on each singer, and gives reviews regarding singers latest album
Rhapsody Customer File can be accessed from anywhere
Must Install Rhapsody Software on your Personal Computer
You can navigate and stream Rhapsody's full content catalog over a wireless network connection to your home stereo.
Contents are secure and virus free

6. Disadvantages Does not allow tracks to be downloaded onto a hard drive
Music can not be stored on an MP3 Player
The only way to transfer Rhapsody tracks onto your hard drive or MP3 player is by extracting the tracks from the CD with an audio ripper, such as Musicmatch Jukebox
When you buy tracks, they're recorded directly to a CD by a burning app that's built into the Rhapsody software.
The CDs are recorded as audio discs, and files are inconveniently named Track 1, Track 2, and so on.

7. Direct Connect
Free to users, only thing required is the Direct Connect (DC++) software
Direct Connect allows you to share files over the internet without restrictions or limits.
Client is completely free of advertisements.
Firewall and router support is integrated into the software.

8. Advantages. Free for users, DC++ software needed
Contains various types of music, different genres, wide variety of international music and videos
Gives the user the option of downloading various types of programs (i.e. computer applications, movies, pictures etc.)
Can store information on hard drive and or MP3 player

9. Disadvantage Illegal (but is used by thousands/millions)
DC++ program is pretty hard to get used to, not as user friendly
Higher chances of downloading corrupt files, causes damage to your computer