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Qtrax postpone big announcement
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 5 January 2010
According to MusicAlly, US-based legit sort-of P2P-service Qtrax had been expecting to make a big announcement on Christmas Eve, but was forced to cancel because CEO Allan Klepfisz was feeling ill.
Qtrax is, of course, well known for cocked up press announcements, having originally launched with a big bash at music convention Midem in 2008 claiming to have all four major record companies on board, only to have to later admit no major label deals were actually in place. Bloggers and journalists like me like bringing the bungled launch up whenever we write about the company, though possibly only because the various DRM-heavy services offered by Qtrax since that announcement have been pretty lacklustre.
Possibly feeling sensitive towards any blog-based mocking of its latest postponed big announcement, Qtrax said on its own website: “Yes, it is true that we intended having a press conference today. And it’s also true, that in the last week our CEO became ill with a generally non-life-threatening but quite painful ailment – kidney stones. And it is also true he was admitted to hospital and thankfully is leaving today. So we’ve decided to cancel the conference”.
The big announcement is now expected to be made later this month. Woo.
