<p>Is this common on most campuses? As it was explained to me, you are not breaking the law when sharing music with iTunes. The music is already in someone’s library. Of course, you don’t know how it got there; it might have been illegally downloaded.</p>
<p>Yes, but iTunes works by “streaming” – meaning you are not downloading a copy of the song. It’s like listening to the radio in a sense. The only person who would get in trouble is the person who stole the music if they get caught, not the person using iTunes streaming.</p>
<p>(But there are ways to download from iTunes illegally)</p>
<p>when you listen to someone else’s iTunes music over a network, you aren’t taking the music and putting it on your computer, so you aren’t taking it. There are some other programs that will let you take the music that other people are sharing though.</p>
<p>It is common, and not illegal to listen to other people’s music.</p>