One of those "legal services" is the much touted Qtrax, one of several legal P2P file sharing platforms that have been touted in recent years, though the one that seems most likely to actually get off the ground, despite that rather embarrassing false start at Midem earlier this year. As previously reported, Qtrax announced it had all the majors on board and was about to launch back in January. But it didn't so it didn't. But with EMI, Universal, Beggars and all four major music publishers now signed up, Qtrax is ready to go, with a message on its home page now reading: "We are pleased to present free and legal music downloads starting June 18 2008. Artist and album availability will continue to grow weekly". While the industry have slowly been won over by the new legit P2P service it remains to be seen if those really horrible file sharing kids can also be persuaded to sign up to it - given that there will presumably be some limitations in how music can be downloaded, if only to exclude the catalogues of those labels as yet not on board. We'll see I guess.
Jun 16, 2008
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Qtrax to launch this week
Legal P2P service Qtrax is ready to launch on 18 June with EMI, Universal, Beggars and the four major publishers on board.