[torQQue]

After years of fighting peer-to-peer file-sharing companies, the major record labels have decided that if they can't beat them, they might as well join them -- in one case, anyway. At the Midem conference in Cannes, France, Qtrax announced deals with all the major music labels and publishers to offer the first free and legal ad-supported P2P service to include major label music.
"You can't change the attitudes and habits of what is now probably amounting to two generations who believe that music ought to be free on the internet," said Qtrax CEO Allan Klepfisz. "Those people are not going to be discouraged by Supreme Court decisions, they're not going to be discouraged by technological interference. Ultimately, what will discourage them is a demonstratively better service."

Full article here: http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/01/majo...ls-al.html


The download service can be found here.

http://qtrax.com/

Expect to see many more record label companies follow this same ad-supported business model soon and all music to become freely available (legally).

For years, music labels have been trying to prevent fans from downloading their songs on peer-to-peer filesharing networks. Now, some of them would like to encourage people to listen to music that way — provided they view some advertising first.

I haven't tried out the service yet, but it seems to be a step in the right direction.

[Panther Thunder]

Nice.

[*Central_Cheer_Chick]

Has anyone tried this yet?