I few months ago, I found the AOL Music Archive. I found it interesting the way you can listen to full songs, from thousands of artists, for free, especially when music stores like iTunes Music Store only give you 30 second previews. Even more interesting, with Firefox, it's quite easy to download these songs. This makes it a huge music download site, sometimes with more songs and music videos than iTunes.

Is this legal? AOL certainly must know how easy it is to download music from their site. With Firefox, all you have to do is get to "Page Info", and select the Media tab, and then choose "Save As..." to download the file to disk. It's also worth noting that it's ad-sponsered, but with ad blockers becoming more and more popular for browsers that support plugins, such as Firefox, sometimes people may not even notice that.

Is AOL naive, or just stupid? And how do they get the record companies to let them do this? I also wonder how Apple and Napster feel when people can download any song.

Even if downloading were illegal, listening is still allowed, so it doesn't make much difference.

How odd. Perhaps AOL is going bankrupt, with the free AOL accounts, and video archives, and the like. Oh well, I'm not complaining, even if competitors are.