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		<title>QTrax Fact or Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Midnight tonight, 25 million songs will be released upon the world, for freeish. According to press releases the RIAA is taking a step in the right direction and providing a new substitute for purchasing $.99 tracks or paying full price &#8230; <a href="http://nailsblog.com/2008/01/28/qtrax-fact-or-fiction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Midnight tonight, 25 million songs will be released upon the world, for freeish. According to press releases the RIAA is taking a step in the right direction and providing a new substitute for purchasing $.99 tracks or paying full price for a &#8216;mainly&#8217; crappy CD. <a href="http://qtrax.com" title="QTRAX">QTrax</a> is a network of legal, free music downloads, but they do come with DRM attached. In addition, to listen to the songs you must use their player, obviously laced with some advertisement.</p>
<p>I think it&#8217;s great under a few if&#8217;s, which are as follows:</p>
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<li>It&#8217;s real, the jury is still out for me whether this is a media stunt, false &#8216;legal&#8217; premise download site, or just a funny, funny ha ha move on Anon&#8217;s part. <img src='http://nailsblog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </li>
<li>There are no root kits installed, spyware, adware, or anything else I&#8217;m not aware of kickin around on my system. I don&#8217;t want the player checking my hard drive for &#8216;illegal&#8217; copies of music at the cost to listening to a few &#8216;legal&#8217; copies.</li>
<li>Ads aren&#8217;t popping up everywhere and changing my homepage, replacing cookies, or wearing down my system resources.</li>
<li>Speeds are good. Inventory doesn&#8217;t mean a thing if it&#8217;s not obtainable in a timely fashion, at least use half of my 10mb line.</li>
<li>It&#8217;s not a trial then pay to play, been there done that. I don&#8217;t want to have access to play all songs once and then pay a &#8216;nominal&#8217; fee for every time there after.. Damn&#8217;t FREE means FREE, otherwise I&#8217;ll stick to my newsgroups.</li>
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<p>Those items being said, I&#8217;m not against people making money for their product. I&#8217;m totally cool with some ads in a player, as long as the service is comparable to FREE. Hell, I&#8217;m not even upset about DRM, of course I don&#8217;t own a portable media device, but the songs better be transferable to a CD.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll guess we&#8217;ll see at midnight tonight if this is the real deal Holyfield or another ploy to get consumer private details by the likes of the RIAA.</p>
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