You’re looking at one of the finest hotels in the world, The Langham Place Hotel in Hong Kong. According to the hotel web site: Among 5-star Hong Kong hotels, Langham Place Hotel Hong Kong is unique… Langham Place captures the vibrancy and buzz of local culture like no other. And presents it in a...
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The Brits released the results of a new study yesterday claiming that 7 million people in the UK are illegally file sharing, costing the economy billions of pounds. Consequently the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property (SABIP) says it may be hard to change attitudes. Duh. You think? This is news? Give me a...
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You may have read my previous post about Qtrax and their multiple legal woes and gnarly “loans” that seemt o have come back to bite them on the ass big time. In that post I wrote “Mr. Klepshitz took a default judgment on April 20, 2009 totaling more than $516,000 including interest in the NY Supreme...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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The Music Void
