BLOG: Qtrax is too little, too late

Qtrax might be the first major P2P to go legitimate, but it won't close the gap between legal and illegal downloading

Qtrax is promising a digital music revolution. But it's a revolution of straw.

The music business has been pulling its hair out in bloodied clumps since 1999, trying to put the peer-to-peer genie back in the bottle. First it tried suing the P2P services (more just appeared in their place), then tried suing the file-sharers (many just shrugged and fired up eDonkey) and, finally, tried to get ISPs to pull the big handle marked 'Off' on file-sharers' accounts.

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http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/01/qtrax_downloads.html

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