Everyone remembers dates. January 28th was the date when music was supposed to be unleashed freely to the world, through a new free peer to peer file sharing system called Qtrax. Its like when JFK was shot, people even remember what they were doing when they heard the news. Although I'm not comparing Qtrax to the death of one of America's most loved presidents, it's important none the less. The idea of free peer to peer has long been in existence, since Napster in the 1990s.
However, Napster is long gone, and pushing up the proverbial daisies. Qtrax is taking that idea into the new millenium. Using ads to pay artists for their tracks is an incredibly simple idea. Licensing with Sony BMG, EMI, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group is the icing on the cake. With 25,000,000 copyright songs available for free legal download, we seem spoiled for choice. Sounds great, but apparently due to some DRM legal idiocy, I won't be able to put tracks on my iPod till April! Downloads aren't up quite yet due to unspecified snags, but keep an eye out, and download the program. With Qtrax claiming that the service had 61,000 unique users per hour between the hours 7AM and 1PM EST, averaging 1,464,000 unique users per day, this is gonna be huge...
P.S-Respect to my friend Will over at The Cold Cut for showing me the future. This blog is gonna be huge, so check it out...
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Sorry-Sony BMG, EMI, Warner and Universal have not signed...
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