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New music services offer music for free (although not DRM-free)

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The Guardian brings news of the launch today of Qtrax.com, a site that claims to have over 25 million songs available legitimately for free. Qtrax.com is funded by advertising, and the record labels and artists get their cut, so everyone's happy. This is one of a number of free music sites discussed in the article.

Like Nokia's proposed free music download service, Qtrax.com appears to use DRM technology to control what users can do with their music.

UPDATE: Three of the big record labels are now saying that they haven't agreed to provide their music to Qtrax. As usual with developments in digital music, nothing is simple...

Full post as published by IMPACT on January 28, 2008 (boomark / email).

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