Free, Legal and Unlimited P2P? This we Have to See
There’s an old saying; "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." While that advice nearly always holds true, we’re sincerely hoping that Qtrax is one of the exceptions to the rule. After several false starts and over a year of "it’s coming," Qtrax has announced in what appears to be a press release issued ahead of schedule, that their free and unlimited P2P music service will finally be released to the masses on Monday. Qtrax supposedly has the support of all four major labels and will provide a P2P network that will be entirely free to users. Initially available for XP and Vista only (OS X version coming on March 18), the Qtrax beta application will serve as a portal into the world’s first entirely legal free P2P network. All transfers will be tracked and royalties will be issued to labels and publishers accordingly. All revenue will be generated by advertising delivered from within the Qtrax application, and it’s unclear exactly what form(s) the advertising will take. Regardless, the initial catalog of downloadable tracks is estimated between 25 and 30 million songs from major labels and indies, giving the service the largest legal library on the ‘net. CEO Allan Klepfisz states, "We will provide a vastly better service than unauthorized sites with superior technology, alluring and vast content, and free music that won’t get you arrested. QTRAX makes other services look as outdated as the cassette tape." Could this mean the end of illegal online music sharing? Yeah, we doubt it too. Hello, Newzbin!
But will it have DRM?
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a good question cody another on is will it have a trojen it it lik kaza did?
if no on bot of these you might have apple sqiming and people dumping limwire as limwire somtimes has files hat ar bined with malware
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“supposedly has the support of all four major labels”
Maybe they can do some kind of checksum that verifies the files, since the labels support it.. or even a UPC like some of the subscription-based services use to identify music.
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Anybody else reminded of the Joost website by Qtrax.com? Is this a direct descendant of kazaa-skype-joost?
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If it’s not in MP3 form when I dl it, then screw it.
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Shut the fuck up abe newzbin, its only awesome because all these 14 year olds don’t know about it.
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p2p isn’t necessary if you’re not trying to protect yourself from legal liability. People will always prefer a website with instant access - that’s why people are much more likely to view movies and shows on sites like youtube (although it’s harder to find them now that tvlinks has gone)
Anyway, with this in mind surely qtrax is going to face an uphill battle against imeem.com and spiralfrog.com which both give free, legal and importantly instant access to the tunes and won’t leave users download sitting around waiting for a peer to come online with the track in question.
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Could you not put ‘NB’ on blast please?
TY
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its crap
you cant download and put on my iphone
it plays within the site
so boring
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Can u actually download the file(s) to your computer? If it were DRM protected, then go get Tunbite.
Ruckus.com’s stuff is all DRM protected but Tunbite can rip them into non-DRM copies by simply just saving the sound that comes out of u speakers as u play it on your computer and saving it into mp3 or other format u choose within their software and not by cracking DRM itself.
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Fuckin awesome!
Well only becuz Daft Punk is on their homepage
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Hmm….
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7213112.stm
oh well ..
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For anyone that is interested you can download software now, and FYI they use SongBird.exe if you look it up it is from the mozilla project songbird. The service isn’t fully up yet either.
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Everything Up and Working In the us but not here in uk, does anyone know if it is actually working in the US and anyone found a way to rip the drm off it as i dont think tunebite and sound taxi work?
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