The word “Free” sounds like such a nice word and everyone likes it indeed. Not everyone will give up free opportunities now that a number of countries is facing financial crisis that seems to be spreading even to the most stable of them. Free Zune music and video downloads isn’t any different from these free opportunities.

Spending up to $60 to download music and video for Zune is unaffordable to most people. This is the reason why users prefer free sites than those that require payment. Still, some factors must be considered on why paying for a membership might be better than using free sites.

Infectious viruses and worms can be written into the software of music and videos. Through downloading music and video for Zune, one could risk his computer’s vulnerability by exposing it to a fatal software. Once a user has accepted to download these kinds of files, the virus or worm will now be free to roam his computer.

When this happens, the confidentiality of the files in the computer can also be vulnerable to hackers. The speed of the computer will slow and some programs may refuse to work anymore. This will cause the computer to crash and the hardware may be damaged.

Free sites have a limited bandwidth that can only accompany a few bytes at one time. When a user is trying to get music and video downloads for Zune, he or she is only going to get the amount of speed the free site can offer. The download speed will slow down because all users downloading from the same site is only sharing this bandwidth with each other.

The other frustrating risk a user will be taking is getting downloads that are incomplete or cankered. There is nothing more irritating than taking hours to download only to find that the file downloaded cannot work or is not complete.

Once choosing to download from a free site, the user will be decreasing the safety of his or her computer. Risking the hardware of a computer can cause permanent damage to the PC. Are the free downloads worth the possible breakage of a computer? Certainly not.

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