riaa sued dead woman

while the RIAA is pondering their RICO defense, i’d like to note they sued a dead woman a few months back: The Associated Press reported that the RIAA identified Gertrude Walton as a prolific file sharer known as “smittenedkitten”. Accusing her of illegally trading music over the internet, the lawsuit was apparently filed more than …

music genome project

there are a bunch of ways to analyze and recommend music. shazam, which uses acoustic fingerprinting to recognize songs based on 15-second excerpts transpose’s goombah and the indy project, which use collaborative filtering to recommend music music plasma, an interactive flash application which illustrates (perceived) relationships between artists. hit song science, which predicts where or …

rockstars tell fans (how) to cirumvent DRM

the bands hate the “copy controlled” pseudo-CDs as much as you do: Now, in the most bizarre turn yet in the record industry’s piracy struggles, stars Dave Matthews Band, Foo Fighters and Switchfoot — and even Sony BMG, when the label gets complaints — are telling fans how they can beat the system. … A …

another reason to hate wal-mart

Nutjob at Wal-Mart photo lab calls secret service on high school art project: Selina Jarvis is the chair of the social studies department at Currituck County High School in North Carolina, and she is not used to having the Secret Service question her or one of her students. But that’s what happened on September 20. …