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 …

RIAA countersued

Tanya Andersen, a 41 year old disabled single mother living in Oregon, has countersued the RIAA for Oregon RICO violations, fraud, invasion of privacy, abuse of process, electronic trespass, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, negligent misrepresentation, the tort of “outrage”, and deceptive business practices: 11. Settlement Support Center also falsely claimed that …