Is downloading music legal?!

Lets face it, Copyright is confusing. Many don't understand how it works & what is considered copyright. The biggest copyright is music. Many people love to take short cuts on paying for music. There many different sites that say that it is 100% legal for you to download this, when in reality it's not. You may wonder; is MP3 legal? The answer is yes, MP3 is just a format that is used to store the music file. It is illegal if you copy the music onto a CD and give it to a friend. You are allowed to make copies if it is only for personal use. The only legal way to share music is on a Peer to peer website. Copyright is a form of protection given to the authors or creators of "original works of authorship". To sum it all up it's illegal for anyone to take any work created by someone else without their permission.