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Qtrax Licenses Universal Music Group International

Oct 14, 2008, 3:01pm Listening Post - Wired Blogs
Qtrax Licenses Universal Music Group International Although peer-to-peer networks are as legal as e-mail, much of their traffic involves the distribution of copyrighted music without protection. Qtrax has long sought permission to offer a peer-to-peer-style network by leveraging Usenet as a secondary back-end for its centralized music service. Until today, it had succeeded only in licensing the official catalogs of EMI and Universal Music Group for US users -- not including the "gray area" music that's available on file sharing networks. Today represents another baby step forward in the long march of Qtrax , "the world's first free and legal peer-to-peer music [...]
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