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The best way to stay on the right side of copyright law is to pay for the music or films you want to have on your computer.
Local merchants and online stores have CDs for sale. Once you’ve purchased those CDs, you can transfer the songs to your computer or to an MP3 player. You can listen to the songs all you want, but you cannot “share” them with others. To avoid doing this, make sure that the file-sharing option is disabled in any file-sharing application you might be using (such as Kazaa, Morpheus, Grokster, etc.). Otherwise, you are violating the rights of the copyright holder, and risk receiving a notification from the recording industry.
You can also download individual songs at a reasonable cost through online music services. A quick web search using keywords such as “buy music online” will direct you to many such services.
For students living in residence halls, C-Flix provides students with a selection of films that can be streamed across the campus network to their computers for a nominal fee. Students living off-campus can get their movies the old-fashioned way: by renting them, buying them, or seeing them in a theater. For more information about Copyright Alternitives, go to the Student Copyright Site.
The University of Colorado would like to prepare a web-based list of resources for students interested in legal ways to get songs and movies. If you can assist in any way with this project, please send your suggestions to copycat@colorado.edu.