Another question about downloading music online.?

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In my country there is a website that lets people download free music, I've looking around and found out that distributing copyrighted music is illegal. So, basically this website is illegal ,right?. But the owner of this website is kind of the biggest internet provider and has huge influence on my country media. This owner literally try to block the citizens from facebook in order to promote their social network. I don't hear any artists in my country complaining about their songs being featured on this website, and they use the owner's social network. Pretty much everyone who ever use the internet in my country know the website. So what're your thought about this? Is the law about downloading music applied globally or on just a few countries? Is this website illegal?

I can not enclose the website for fear of being cut off.