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Subject: Free and Legal Song Downloading
Posted by: Wilmer McLean
- [5700280] Mon, Jan 28, 2008, 03:18
From the Drudge Report:
From today, feel free to download another 25 million songs - legally
From The Times
January 28, 2008
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.
The service will use the “peer-to-peer” network, which contains not just hit songs but rarities and live tracks from the world’s leading artists.
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So, finally I might get a good copy of "I Used To Work In Chicago."
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| 1 | Toral
ID: 575542418
Mon, Jan 28, 2008, 04:09
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Well it only took six years, millions of dollars in legal fees wasted, plus the cost to those unlucky individuals who were sued and lost, but this article by Janis Ian originallylinked to in this thread has finally been vindicated. As it eventually had to be.
Toral
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| 2 | Perm Dude
ID: 46046287
Mon, Jan 28, 2008, 08:55
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About freaking time. Just a few weeks ago I posted about yet another nonsensical step the music industry was taking in their efforts to profitability by suing their own customers.
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| 3 | Tree
ID: 3533298
Mon, Jan 28, 2008, 09:18
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i wouldn't hold your breath on this guys...
1. it's launching in 9 countries. while the article mentions US and Europe, the reality is that Qtrax has yet to announce publicly which 9 countries it is launching in.
2. this is AT LEAST the third time Qtrax has announced itself as legit, going all the way back to April of 2006.
3. the beta launch was supposed to be midnight - just over 9 hours from now as i write this. and guess what, you still can't download it.
4. and perhaps most importantly, the article discusses deals and agreements with EMI, Universal Music and Warner Music.
in other published reports, all three labels are denying that they have come to any agreement. they are in negotiations, but nothing has been signed, and it seems to me this is yet another premature announcement from Qtrax.
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| 4 | Tree
ID: 3533298
Mon, Jan 28, 2008, 09:21
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in the above, i meant 9 hours prior, not nine hours from now...
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| 5 | Tree
ID: 3533298
Mon, Jan 28, 2008, 12:54
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and. of course.
free music service hits snag...
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