Feel free to download another 25mil songs - Legally

[JiveTurkey]

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3261591.ece




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.

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.





Hmmm, I don't trust it.


Being a veteran of p2p and (even better) bittorrent, I am all too familiar with the staggering amount of viruses (trojans) and other "malware" that the record companies (and the mpaa and riaa) have thrown out there in an attempt to stop file sharing.


Me thinks this could be a big "fuck you" style set up.




Hmmm


Am I a conspiracy theorist because I am paranoid or am I paranoid because I'm a conspiracy theorist?



J

[mojo]

Fortunately i think they have realised that no matter what they try to halt the sharing of files that they are fighting a losing battle.
It was always going to come to this imo since napster.
The income will come from advertising revenue from the sites and royalties that they will still be able to collect from radio and tv.
Its hard to believe but its definately time.

Viva la revolution.

[mojo]

Qtrax is now downloadable here as of midnight last night.
well im going to give it a shot.
25 million songs, theres got to be some metal i like in there somewhere.
i'll let you know if i start getting any malware or spyware.

[Iamsix]

I guess we will know if you dont show up after awhile....lol

[MBF]

I read just a day or two ago that the European courts had ruled that ISP's did not have to turn over private information to those butt holes that are suing down loaders. In my opinion, down loading is not the reason for the music industry's drop in sales. This debate started way back when cassette tapes came out, they didn't destroy the music industry. When the VCR's came out it started again. The movie industry said they would destroy them...they didn't. When recordable CD's came out, they were going to destroy the music industry again, but didn't.

[Bitchkoma]

Why would I want to download from that tracker when I can find some shady illegal tracker? I'm more comfortable with the darkside, as it were.

[Iamsix]

Bk...livin' on da edge.....You so dangerous