Sunday, January 27, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
TimesOnline snippet: After a decade fighting to stop illegal file-sharing, the music industry will give fans today what they have always wanted: an unlimited supply of free and legal songs.Its gonna be Vista/XP until March 18th. Interesting to say the least. Artists get paid by music played tracking. Advertising in the app. The app looks like an AIR offering, but the whole PC-only thing for now kind of shatters that idea. But wouldn't it be cool if it was an AIR offering? It says it offers a Mozilla-based browser. Would Mozilla ever drop Gecko for Webkit (or am I out of the loop on that one?)
With CD sales in free fall and legal downloads yet to fill the gap, the music industry has reluctantly embraced the file-sharing technology that threatened to destroy it. Qtrax, a digital service announced today, promises a catalogue of more than 25 million songs that users can download to keep, free and with no limit on the number of tracks.
2 Comments:
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“meh. music heavily DRMed and only playable in their application. no ipod. it's essentially a more-locked-down, ad-supported, p2p Rhapsody.”
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e.dolecki said...
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“With the existing issues, yes its free but severely constrained. However, maybe they will offer a streaming model... so one could code and listen to almost anything. Just while seated at your machine. That would be okay with me.”
