Music firm wants into your HD
p2pnet.net News:- There`s Spain’s Polyphonic HMI (Human Media Interface) or ‘Hit Song Science‘ billed as mathematical music analysis for individual music recommendation and, as a tool for the record industry”.
Now MusicStrands, also based in Iberia, wants to literally poke around inside your computer and/or cell phone and/or music player so it can use, “statistical machine learning, collaborative filtering, complex network-based analysis, among others, to provide music recommendations based exclusively on the listening behavior of individuals and social networks”.
Or, “We’ll look at your hard-drive and see what’s out there and make recommendations based on your music library,” Reuters has company boss Derek Reisfield saying.
An ex-president of CBS New Media, he also reveals, “We look at actual behavior patterns in terms of usage, not just purchases.”
So you`ve got this Spanish company that acknowledges America`s Hollywood-inspired DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act).and that’s run by an ex-CBS guy, no less, accessing your hard drive to decide what you like and what you don`t like so it can help you to discover, locate, and purchase new music.
That`s the middle part.
At the front end is MusicStrands` Recommender offering, personalization for businesses catering to music consumers by leveraging their tastes in music.
And bringing up the rear is the key `product,` Emergent Hits which, provides the music industry the most accurate real time data from the music community and the tools to analyze emergent trends.
Music community = you.
So what`s it really offering you?
Nada.
But it`ll be collecting all kinds of invaluable direct and indirect data on you, what you like, where you get it from, when, how, and so on, which`ll end up in the hands of some swashbuckling marketeer owned by a corporate music biggie.
Musicstrands, earns revenues by licensing its technology to other companies and by making referrals to online music stores such as Amazon.com and Buy.com Inc, says Reuters. For each referral that turns into a sale, it collects a fee.
Pass.
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See:-
Hit Song Science – The mathematics of music, p2pnet, January 18, 2005
Reuters – Spanish firm aims to revolutionise online music, June 14, 2005
June 15th, 2005 at 12:58 am
Abhorent!
I’d call it spyware.
June 15th, 2005 at 1:39 am
audioscrobbler.com does this, doesnt it?
June 15th, 2005 at 1:40 am
They can get in after they pry it out of my cold dead hands/network.
June 15th, 2005 at 2:28 am
I much agree with this. Big business has no business in my hard drive. They want my info so bad? Get my permission directly, not through some sneaky workaround. After all that’s what all these corporations what, free info and then sell it. I seriously doubt I would give them the permission to begin with. Violating my privacy to obtain such info isn’t going to cut it. I would not allow a corporation busybody to ransack my car or go through my wallet on the side of the street. Nor will I willing allow them to ransack and plunder my harddrive.
June 15th, 2005 at 8:18 am
Quite. There’s a right way and a wrong way to do this. last.fm and Audioscrobbler are the right way.
Why don’t they just buy them. Audioscrobbler could do with the money.
June 15th, 2005 at 8:27 am
This was thought up by a marketing guy. You can tell.
During my business career, I’ve seen countless ideas like this – promising the world and invariably failing miserably. Why? Marketing people consistently assume that consumers will agree to be exploited for the supposed reward of being sold stuff!
For some reason those pesky consumers never go for it, and marketing guys are always scratching their heads:)