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Qtrax Launches Legal Free P2P With Major Label Support

January 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Qtrax launches today making available 20-30 million tracks floating around on P2P’s available for free and legal download via its new ad supported service.  All four major labels have signed on.

Users download and launch a player that runs ads while they search for and download tracks.  DRM prevents the tracks from being burned and counts the number of times a song is played to pay the rights holders.  But the tracks can be stored onto the computer hard drive or transfered to portable players.

(Via Hypebot.)

Tags: Music (Business)

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