International Law

Yesterday I blogged about Free and legal P2P music from Qtrax, although it now seems that Qtrax's announcement was premature:

This is being covered to death elsewhere, so I won?t spend too much time on it.  But if a startup is going to spend nearly $1 million announcing a new digital music service claiming more than 25 million free legal song downloads, it might want to coordinate its announcement with the music labels it is supposedly partnering with.

In what may be the dumbest business move of the year so far, Qtrax announced its free music download service this weekend before bothering to sign contracts with three of the four major labels.  Now the music companies are saying, ?Wait a second, there is no deal yet.  We?re just talking to Qtrax.?  Without the labels on board, there is no service. 

Read more here (from TechCrunch).