My RSS reader has been on fire with Qtrax stuff this morning. To summarize what I read: this thing uses Gnutella networks and is either sharing their own stuff or is tracking and adding DRM to files already out there. The DRM seems to be (by all guesses) Windows Playsforsure which means it won’t work with iPods or Zunes. The alleged iPod compatibility seems to be a reversed engineered FairPlay, which I’m sure Steve Jobs will love. Oh, and they jumped the gun on claiming the major label support.
With each new story I read, this seems less and less likely to succeed.
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