RIAA fails to pay attorneys fee

The RIAA owes former file-sharing defendant Debbie Foster more than $68,000 in legal fees after losing their case against her — but they won’t pay up. They haven’t responded to polite notes asking them to turn over the dough the court ordered them to pay, so now Foster has asked the court to “enter [...]

Don’t pick up that deserted iPod

Frustrated iPod owners are angry, their music taken from them by thieves Dateline caught on hidden camera.
On Dateline Wednesday, Dateline investigates if it’s possible, using some of the same high-tech capabilities that make the iPod the phenomenon it is, to track down people who take iPods that don’t belong to them.

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When metal meets the harp

Harptallica began in early 2006 when Ashley Toman, a grad student at the Eastman School of Music, decided to arrange one Metallica song, “Fade to Black,” for two harps. Somehow this turned into 10 Metallica Songs and a CD which they recorded in November, 2006. The CD, titled “Harptallica,” will contain songs from “Ride the [...]

Seek and yee shall find with Seeqpod

Ready for the next RIAA target? Seeqpod is a search engine specializing in media files, copyrighted or not, that are hosted on the Web. The service is interesting but one has to wonder how long can it last? While being a search engine and not technically housing the material, it does allow you to play [...]

Visual Tuneage

Some would know, I’m a sucker for statistics and graphical representations. I found a stats site that takes my Last.fm data and outputs a nifty visualization of my listening history. The site is called LastGraph and is powered by the lovely language of Python. Below is a snippet of my last few month’s listening habits.