Intent MediaWorks, an Atlanta-based distributor of content over peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, believes that consumers shouldn't have to either pay or face legal trouble for the music and video ...

Qtrax has signed a deal with EMI, meaning that it now has standing agreements with the smallest major label, as well as the largest (Universal), to allow users to download free music in an ...

The "world's first free, legal P2P service," Qtrax, has deals with EMI Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and TVT Records, Listening Post has learned. Qtrax raised quite the furor in January with ...

Music retailers have been moving away from enforcing DRM (digital rights management) restrictions on music downloads, in hopes of giving the industry a shot in the arm. Along with this, a number of ...

EMI Group said Monday that it would make its music catalog available to the first advertising supported peer-to-peer service as the entertainment industry embraces the same technology that once nearly ...

While the technology has been vilified for making it easier to swap illegally copied music over the Internet, peer-to-peer software is increasingly being embraced by cellular phone manufacturers and ...

It's been a long time since we've heard from Qtrax, a me-too rebel of the Napster days turned legitimate P2P music download service in a hopeful-but-vaporware kind of way. The service has had a number ...

A Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist has proposed a way to speed transferring large data files, such as movies and music, with a technology that would generalize the types of files that ...

It’s not just the Recording Industry Association of America that people need to worry about when downloading music from P2P networks. A surprisingly high number of consumers sharing music and other ...

CenterSpan Communications on Thursday said it struck a deal to distribute Sony Music Entertainment's music on its peer-to-peer service. The agreement lets CenterSpan provide music from Sony Music ...

Contrary to claims made by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has launched a campaign of lawsuits against peer-to-peer (P2P) network users and blamed them for plunging sales, ...