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UPDATE: Our man Al Klepshitz must not be doing that badly after all. In spite of all of the judgments and outstanding claims against Brilliant Technologies, Qtrax and or Klepshitz personally, he was seen not long ago in the First Class section of a Singapore Airlines flight (Klepshitz is know to have a great affinity and passion for the airline’s first class service). Klepshitz was…
We’re coming up on the 10 year anniversary of the launch of the original Napster. And it has surely been a long and winding road to the current incarnation of the once dominate p2p software. To get the full story you should pick up Steve Knopper’s “Appetite For Self-Destruction” or Joe Menn’s “All The Rage”. While once the coolest outlaw service on the planet, Chris…
Everyone loves author, professor, freedom fighter and all around copyright egghead Lawrence Lessig. Everybody except Warner Music. Lessig posted one of his presentations on YouTube that evidently contains some Warner Music content. This is certainly within the bounds of the fair use doctrine. Larry surely thinks so. But it appears that some bonehead lawyer at WMG doesn’t. Warner filed a DMCA takedown notice and Lessig…
Most download stores suck. But a buddy of mine has an interesting twist on the standard fare. James Glicker, past CEO of the Baltimore Symphony, former BMG Classics exec and co-founder of FullAudio (one of the earliest digital music download stores) founded Passionato last fall in the UK. The store differentiates itself by offer only classical music and in several file high quality audio formats including FLAC.…
Everybody’s heard about the Pirate Bay ruling by now. There’s nothing I can add to everything that has been written so far other than to say that realistically it won’t have much impact. But my favorite take is Peter Kafka’s post in All Things Digital.
Not! As you could see from my post last week about Qtrax, you’d have to think twice about lending him your car. Yes, it’s Qtrax CEO Allan Klepshitz. And how is the new Qtrax user experience? Does it equal or top that of iTunes? Is Kelpshitz the digital music genius he would have us all believe? Mike Barthel of idolator.com details his user experience with…
It appears that DSP Passalong has ridden off into the sunset, yet another victim of the crashing digital music space that exists outside of Apple and Amazon. This proves once again that the only parties that can operate in the business are the big boys who don’t rely on digital music sales for their livelihood. And, of course, the major labels don’t give a shit…
UPDATE–3:49 PM EST Upon further investigation, Brilliant Technologies, a corporation registered in Delaware and owner of Qtrax, is a publicly traded pink sheet stock (BLLN). All well and good. But it turns out that BLLN hasn’t filed any financial statements with the SEC since May, 2007–an out and out violation of the law. Paging Bernie Madoff! Paging Bernie Madoff! See for yourself here. The FT…
Back in 2000, anybody with half a brain knew that the recording industry was blowing it big time by not playing ball with Napster. I was recently criticized by one of those players for saying this and supporting Thomas Middlehoff’s efforts to do so. This big wig told me that Middlehoff didn’t have a business plan for Napster. I, of course, used Steve Knopper’s book…
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