The Beginning Of The End For Qtrax

We were never bullish on Qtrax’s prospects when they announced their ad-supported music service a year-and-a-half ago. Now they look to be down for the count by announcing they had cemented deals with the four major labels when in fact that wasn’t the truth. The free, ad-supported, P2P service launched at MIDEM today with a shaky “beta” version of their service and no licensing deals. The news comes after the...

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Amazon Announces International Rollout of Amazon MP3 Download Store

Amazon has announced it will begin an international rollout of its Amazon MP3 DRM-free MP3 digital music store sometime in 2008. Amazon said it is the only retailer to offer DRM-free MP3s from all four major music labels as well as thousands of independent labels, and now includes more than 3.3 million songs.

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