Qtrax Company

The executives behind a new music service called Qtrax wanted to get the industry talking. They did -- for the wrong reasons. Brilliant Technologies Corp., the publicly traded parent company of Qtrax, said Sunday that it had opened the first Napster-like network to feature free music from the four major record labels with their permission.

The company behind the defunct Qtrax online file-swapping network has signed a licensing deal with Britain-based EMI Music and aims to relaunch this year as an ad-supported recording-industry-friendly music service. Qtrax was among several peer-to-peer file-sharing applications that emerged after the shutdown of Napster, the pioneering service that enabled millions to illegally copy songs stored in other music fans' computers. Creator LTDnetwork Inc.