Qtrax - Jumping the Gun
01.29.08 - 10:54am
Qtrax is or was, a new advertising based free music download service that on Sunday announced that they had contracts with all the major music labels and 30 million songs available for free download. They also said they had a way to make the songs compatible with the iPod even without a FairPlay license. “We’ve had a technical breakthrough which enables us to put songs on an iPod without any interference from FairPlay,” said Allan Klepfisz, Qtrax’s president and chief executive. He further said “Apple has nothing to do with it,” something that was sure to rile up Steve Jobs to take action to prevent the downloads.
Today, however brings different news and it would seem Qtrax has much more to worry about than Apple fighting their “technical breakthrough”. Today they are fighting the record companies denying their songs and denying deals as well as a possible SEC fraud violation.
