Legal Alternatives to File Sharing
To ensure compliance with copyright laws and policy, UVU encourages the use of legal resources for enjoying music, movies, and other media online. Among the available options for accessing content are:
- Amazon MP3 Store - Music downloads
- Amazon Video on Demand - Movies and television on-demand
- Amazon Game Store - Video games
- Amazon Audiobook Store - audiobooks
- eMusic - Music downloads
- GameFly - Video game rentals
- Insound - Music downloads
- iTunes - Music, ebooks, audiobooks, television, movies
- Hulu - Streaming television and movies
- Hulu Plus - On-demand streaming television and movies by subscription
- Live365 - Internet radio
- NetFlix - Movie and television rentals and streaming on-demand video
- Pandora - Internet radio
- Rhapsody - Music streams and downloads
- ShoutCast - Internet radio
- Muve Music - Mobile Music for cell phones
Note: This list of legal file sharing sites is not exhaustive, and these sites are not endorsed by the UVU.
In addition to paid services the use of public domain and creative commons services of non copyrighted material provides an alternative to illegal file sharing.
These service may include services such as:
- Flicker Creative Commons search - Photos from Flickr users under Creative Commons license
- Stock.XCHG - Free user-generated stock photos
- Creative Commons Search - Content under Creative Commons license
- Wikipedia - Free online encyclopedia
- Project Gutenberg - Books and other written works in the public domain in electronic format
- LibriVox - Free, user-generated audiobooks of works in the public domain
- Public Domain Works - Registry of artistic works in the public domain