Startup: Qtrax’s Legal Music Download Claims Put Qtrax on Thin Ice

Taken from Grooveshark: Qtrax claimed to be the first legal music download site to offer free streaming and free downloads. Qtrax plans to pay labels 50% of advertising revenues to cover the cost of the free music downloads and free streaming.

Qtrax, which is built on the Songbird platform, crawled through the Gnutella p2p network and removed viruses, installed DRM and gave users an easy way to download and listen to free music. They did all this with without the approval of the major labels.

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