P2P

Qtrax a online music sharing website which got shutdown in 2002 for sharing illegal music is once again open but this time offering free unlimited legal music downloads using their "Qtrax P2P application".

Qtrax free music download business model depends on generating advertising revenue and pay record companies licensing fees based on number of times a song is played, The Qtrax music has a collection of more then 25 million songs from major music companies that can be downloaded onto your computer or iPod.

ourTunes is a java based open-source cross-platform application to share MP3 & AAC music files over a shared network, ourTunes allows users to connect to other iTunes on the network and share files, the software is quite popular now with more then 3,000,000 downloads.

iTunes does allow music sharing to a maximum of five users every 24 hours to connect and listen to the music of another user who has enabled sharing on a given subnetwork, However, ourTunes allows users to download music files to their own computer and provides the functionality to search through the songs from all connected hosts. ourTunes cannot download music purchased from the iTunes Music Store. unlike other P2P clients you cannot share your files over internet.