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Qtrax sued by Oracle
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 29 July 2009
More from the world of P2P, though this time sort of legit P2P service Qtrax. The digital music company is being sued for $2 million by software firm Oracle for copyright infringement and breach of contract. Basically it seems Qtrax have defaulted on a $1.8 million bill to pay for technologies licenced to the P2P company by Oracle.
The lawsuit throws new doubt on the future of Qtrax, one of a number of start ups who have promised to launch a fully licensed P2P file-sharing network that satisfies both file-sharers and content owners, only to quietly disappear off the radar eighteen months later.
To be fair, Qtrax did actually launch a service of sorts (lots of other legit P2P businesses never got that far) though the company itself has admitted to problems with that service, and that those problems have delayed to the firm’s expansion plans.
Qtrax’s CEO Allan Klepfisz recently wrote in a company blog post: “We’ve tried hard but the truth is that if total efficiency is the goal, we’ve failed. I’ve failed. We have had several iterations of the software. We chucked out the earlier ones and built something that is unparalleled, we believe, in its functionality… We’ve also been inefficient in going through two sets of expensive licenses with the music industry. We threw out the first set. They were too restrictive”.
