We tell stories

I mentioned in my last post that Bit Torrent was awash with eBooks among the music and videos. Authors have dabbled with the Web as a medium for their work before – Stephen King famously released a book one chapter at a time and even that was pirated.
We hear repeatedly how the music industry must [...]

What’s on ?

eDonkey has been on the receiving end of much music industry legal action in recent months. Last September a number of German eDonkey servers were taken offline after a court issued an injunction against them. User numbers halved – temporarily. In January this year the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN won judgement against an eDonkey hashlinksite, Shareconnector.
Would [...]

Recommendation engines

Music recommendation engines have a long long way to go.
I never liked Pandora – repertoire was too US centric and the academic model for recommendation (e.g. you chose a synth rock song in a minor key with prominent guitars, therefore here’s more synth rock in a minor key) was lamentable.
I have been an occasional user of [...]