Qtrax, a newly-launched "legal" P2P music sharing service, isn't your father's P2P. The music label-approved service pushes advertisements at users in exchange for free P2P downloads, imagining itself ...

EMI Group said Monday that it would make its music catalog available to the first advertising supported peer-to-peer service as the entertainment industry embraces the same technology that once nearly ...

Qtrax has signed a deal with EMI, meaning that it now has standing agreements with the smallest major label, as well as the largest (Universal), to allow users to download free music in an ...

Music retailers have been moving away from enforcing DRM (digital rights management) restrictions on music downloads, in hopes of giving the industry a shot in the arm. Along with this, a number of ...

Music start-up Mercora is dipping its toes into the trendy world of Internet search, with a new Web-based tool aimed at finding free music being played on the company's peer-to-peer radio network. The ...

The "world's first free, legal P2P service," Qtrax, has deals with EMI Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and TVT Records, Listening Post has learned. Qtrax raised quite the furor in January with ...

I know I’m starting to sound like a broken record, but in case you haven’t heard: The era of paid music downloads is coming to an end (despite the fact that online sales are growing). It isn’t pretty ...

Intent MediaWorks, an Atlanta-based distributor of content over peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, believes that consumers shouldn't have to either pay or face legal trouble for the music and video ...

People have been trying to come up with a legal way to share music since the heydays of Kazaa and Napster. Record labels weren’t ready to relinquish control, though, and arguably, consumers weren’t ...

More than a year after its expected launch, free P2P music service Qtrax has finally gotten off the ground with deals with all the major music labels. Universal, EMI, Sony, and now Warner Music Group ...

NPD reports that while Apple's iTunes Music Store continues to lead the pack of online music download stores, growth in the sector appears to be slowing, and perhaps even reversing. In April, 2004, ...