A year ago at the same event Qtrax, billed as the world's first free and legal peer-to-peer digital music site, was at the centre of controversy after unveiling licensing agreements with all the major record companies only to later reveal that was not yet the case.

In this latest agreement, which follows deals since signed with a variety of publishers and record companies, Qtrax is given access to the Anglo-American repertoire of independent publisher Peermusic and other UK independent publishers ...