Hearing about Spotify’s plans for a US launch can get tiring after a while. The company had planned to launch in the US by the end of 2010, and now in 2011 we still don’t have the service. Now the eventual launch seems a bit more plausible now that Spotfiy has one of the big more »

Universal Music Group is joining the ranks of music companies who are giving away their music for free and in a legal way. The company has announced that it has reached an agreement with file-sharing site Qtrax to offer free, legal downloads of all its digital music. If you would recall, Qtrax announced sometime in January that it has the support of “all major music labels” in its revenue generating ads music download service. But some of this music companies denied Qtrax’s claim, including UMG. Prior to these events, Qtrax was forced to shut down its service a few months after it was launched in 2002 to avoid some legal troubles.