Qtrax: Download every song ever made for free!! Music companies: WRONG!

TheSportsPredictor · Jan 28, 2008

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3261591.ece

After a decade fighting to stop illegal file-sharing, the music industry will give fans today what they have always wanted: an unlimited supply of free and legal songs.

With CD sales in free fall and legal downloads yet to fill the gap, the music industry has reluctantly embraced the file-sharing technology that threatened to destroy it. Qtrax, a digital service announced today, promises a catalogue of more than 25 million songs that users can download to keep, free and with no limit on the number of tracks.

The service has been endorsed by the very same record companies - including EMI, Universal Music and Warner Music – that have chased file-sharers through the courts in a doomed attempt to prevent piracy. The gamble is that fans will put up with a limited amount of advertising around the Qtrax website’s jukebox in return for authorised use of almost every song available.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN2844446320080128

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Qtrax, a new free music download service, backed off claims that it has deals with all four major music companies after Warner Music Group denied it had agreed terms with the start-up.

"Warner Music Group has not authorized the use of our content on Qtrax's recently announced service," Warner, the No. 3 music company, said in statement late on Sunday.

Qtrax said late on Sunday, "We are in discussion with Warner Music Group to ensure that the service is licensed and we hope to reach an agreement shortly."

A source close to Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, told Reuters it also did not have a deal with Qtrax but discussions were continuing.

The Los Angeles Times also reported on Sunday that EMI Group executives said it had not agreed terms with Qtrax.

Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the second largest music company, was not immediately available.

Qtrax Chief Executive Allan Klepfisz told Reuters and other media outlets last week that it had deals with the major labels representing about 75 percent of all music sales to allow users to download songs through Qtrax for free.
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Football_Bat · Jan 28, 2008

Ooops.

Diabeetus · Jan 28, 2008

Seems like kind of a big detail to screw up on.

sabrefan · Jan 28, 2008

who's running Qtrax, Gary Bettman?

Football_Bat · Jan 28, 2008

Qtrax: The BCS of download services.

slappy4428 · Jan 28, 2008

Qtrax: The Rich Rodriguez of music downloads.

Overrated · Jan 28, 2008

Is Qtrax a blog?

John · Jan 28, 2008

TheSportsPredictor · Jan 28, 2008

Love the CNN.com article about this stupidity. According to them, the site has hit a "snag."

Sure, if by "snag" you mean "we lied about this whole thing and never had any chance of getting the record companies to let us use their entire catalogs."

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