The last time we heard from our friends at doomed free music service Qtrax was last March when they launched for the fourth time in about as many years. The service launched with only subdued support from the major labels: EMI said that they had signed a “short term agreement”; Sony and Universal did...
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Last Wednesday a few people started tweeting that “Free and Legal Music Downloads now available from @Qtrax – Check it out: http://tinyurl.com/qtrax18”. At first most of these tweets emanated from Qtrax’s PR firm based in West Palm Beach, FL and from one of its attorneys, followed by some company insiders and acolytes. The tweet...
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About a year ago a couple of start-ups announced their intentions to take the US by storm with a completely new take on ad-supported free mp3 downloads. Free All Music of Atlanta, Ga. claimed that they were going to give users free MP3’s by just viewing a little 15 second commercial before each download....
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Last year database giant Oracle filed for and won a $2 million default judgment against industry laughing stock Qtrax. If you’ll recall, Qtrax bounced a $1.8 million check to Oracle. In a classic “the dog ate my homework” defense, Qtrax argues a litany of excuses as to why the judgment against them should be...
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Yes, I’m back. Apologies for the long hiatus, but I was busy with some knucklehead who had the world convinced that he was going to buy the Pirate Bay. Oy vey. What a story. I’ll get into all of the details in the coming months. It’s one of the weirdest chapters of my extremely...
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You’re looking at one of the finest hotels in the world, The Langham Place Hotel in Hong Kong. According to the hotel web site: Among 5-star Hong Kong hotels, Langham Place Hotel Hong Kong is unique… Langham Place captures the vibrancy and buzz of local culture like no other. And presents it in a...
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You may have read my previous post about Qtrax and their multiple legal woes and gnarly “loans” that seemt o have come back to bite them on the ass big time. In that post I wrote “Mr. Klepshitz took a default judgment on April 20, 2009 totaling more than $516,000 including interest in the NY Supreme...
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UPDATE: Our man Al Klepshitz must not be doing that badly after all. In spite of all of the judgments and outstanding claims against Brilliant Technologies, Qtrax and or Klepshitz personally, he was seen not long ago in the First Class section of a Singapore Airlines flight (Klepshitz is know to have a great...
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Not! As you could see from my post last week about Qtrax, you’d have to think twice about lending him your car. Yes, it’s Qtrax CEO Allan Klepshitz. And how is the new Qtrax user experience? Does it equal or top that of iTunes? Is Kelpshitz the digital music genius he would have us...
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