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Topic: Qtrax will it ever happen

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now three of the big four are currently hesitant to join will Qtrax ever be launched and will it be worthwhile or legal for DJs and what restrictions will be in the download





Tayla
 
Inviato Mon 28 Jan 08 @ 2:52 pm
anyone mess with this?
 
Looking throudh their legal disclaimer, I noticed that there was no "share to belong" clause. However, there WAS a clause that essentially states that, if you DO share, you'd better have every right, lisence, and permission, or face a charge of $5 per item shared if you don't.

"Violation of Copyright, Dissemination, Spamming and Damages

We will immediately terminate your use of Qtrax which we believe, in our sole discretion, is being used to violate copyrighted works, disseminate viruses, worms, Trojans and the like, disseminated illegally obtained files, child pornography, and all such file types prohibited by law, transmit or is otherwise connected with any spam or other unsolicited bulk email, defamatory or offensive contents contained in the files, propaganda and the like and you may be liable to damages by reason of such wrongful conduct.

If actual damages cannot be reasonably calculated then you agree to pay us liquidated damages of $5 for each piece of file type disseminated illegally, spam or unsolicited bulk email transmitted from or otherwise connected with you, otherwise you agree to pay us actual damages, to the extent such actual damages can be reasonably calculated."
 
SpeedDemond29 wrote :
I heard about that on CNN. Apparently, music companies were denying that they gave them permission to host and share music for free. I according to Qtraks, they said there is a contract being negotiated now..In fact, it just needs to be signed. I think that was only with Warner Brothers though.

Haven't been to the site though.


I posted this in the Music Forum. Someone asked the same questions. Link to the report is below.

Full CNN Report on Qtrax
 
thats crap.

stick to napster & convert
 
it's not off the ground yet guys


the official launch day of last monday has been and gone with all four major music companies pulling away from the deal stating qtrax had moved the goalposts on the original deal of method of payment to them and their artists

with all downloads to the end user being free, royalties were to be raised for each record company through advertising on the site with which they now don't think will be high enough, negociations are ongoing said a spokesman for qtrax who hope to announce a new release date soon for this service

hope they include video at some future point


Tayla

 
Well, the CNN report clearly states that DRM is a part of their paradigm...Not very appealing. Buying CDs means that you can make a backup and beat that up out in the field (not that I do this anymore, necessarily, now that I went digital), keeping your original pristine for safety's sake, while DRM means that you can't burn a backup CD in case of some unforseen catastrophe, like a crash, for example, where you would have a backup of at least the set that was planned for the gig to chuck into your backup CD player until you can sort things out :-(
 


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