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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the technology has been vilified for making it easier to swap illegally copied music over the Internet, peer-to-peer software is increasingly being embraced by cellular phone manufacturers and ...

Here's a strange thought: Free music downloads available legally are better than what the masses are stealing. Either allows jazz fans to collect a diverse library large enough to listen to ...

It’s not just the Recording Industry Association of America that people need to worry about when downloading music from P2P networks. A surprisingly high number of consumers sharing music and other ...

Today has been full of good news for the music industry — we just heard that revenues grew for the first time since 1999, and now an NPD study claims that free streaming services are helping to reduce ...

Qtrax, the ambitious free P2P service that took a PR beating in January when it mistakenly announced it had major-label deals in place, seems to be back on track. The P2P service made public a ...