Free and Legal Peer To Peer?
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Due to overwhelming demand, Qtrax.com is currently unavailable. Please check back in 24 hours to download the first, free, and legal P2P music application. Thank you for your understanding.
http://www.qtrax.com/
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Ok here's the skinny, Qtrax is on its 2nd incarnation and this time has the blessings of the RIAA. You can download music and video but all are wrapped in Digital Rights Management (DRM) which do not allow you to make copies but can be stored indefinitely on your hard drive and iPod. You will have to put up with advertising for downloading but many people will deal with a commercial if they can get something for free. The point here is to take the money that advertisers pay and give it back to the record labels and artists. Will it work, I guess we will have to wait and see. I doubt that you will be able to download full records and its hard to say what quality will be like. Since it trolls the file sharing networks you will be getting tracks that could be encoded at any bit rate. If the idea that advertising can lead to free music you might just see Apple and Amazon follow suit and start giving away much more free music. Just think if the RIAA didn't have their heads up their ass back in 2001, they could have used this strategy to crush file sharing and not have become the most hated organization on the planet.
I will keep checking the status and provide you with an update once its available.
Posted by mardenhill 1/27/2008 02:24:00 PM
Labels: Music, Technology
