Longhaired_Genius - 10:23 am on Sep 25, 2002 (gmt 0)

Rumbas,

IANAL but I don't thint this is 100% correct.

Not if the music is not copyrighted by the author.

Any original work is automatically copyrighted, but as you imply an author may choose to distribute his copyrighted work for free.

It IS illegal to copy copyrighted material

It's not always illegal to copy copyrighted material; that's the basis of the current, and probably never-ending, "fair use" debate.