25 million songs - now “free and legally”

On passing the music conference in Cannes, Midem Qtrax company announced that it has signed an agreement with all major music labels and publishers, and runs the world’s first free and legal sharing of music files on the p2p-protocol. According to the company, all will be available for download 25 million songs (compare it with 6 million on iTunes and 3 million on Amazon).

However, the expression “free and legally, you need to put a great star to clarify the conditions and issues. And they are. First of all, music is distributed via Qtrax will be downloaded and played through a proprietary player, which is based on Songbird, which at that time will show the ads, two thirds of the proceeds of which will depart owners. Secondly, the music files are protected by DRM, and, most importantly, will not play on iPod. The company claims that “eventually” the opportunity to appear, but as far as this period is long, can not say no one - is unlikely Apple will be particularly encouraged by this idea.

27 January 2008 | , agreement, cannes, conference, file, million, publisher, song, world

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