Ask HN: Legal to stream music online in India ?

Almost all music streamed and played in India online is illegal. PPL India (http://www.pplindia.org/aboutus.html) cracks down on such websites.

One needs to obtain specific license from PPL for streaming music online and such a license is quite expensive.

I don't know about other websites you mentioned, but raaga.com looks legal.

They've an advertisers page which looks genuine - I've seen ads for new movies show up on raaga.com (I'm guessing if movie producers don't have a problem buying ads on that website, they're probably legal?). http://www.raaga.com/channels/home/advertise.asp

Read their TOS and policies, may be they mention something.

Google "their name" + legal issues, may be you find a blog post or a forum thread about them on the web.

Dude 99.99% of them are illegal and run in either Pak/US.