2nd rate band’s new single appears on bittorrent sites, band releases press release decrying leak, sleuthing ensues…turns out the band’s manager leaked the track himself. Damning on its own, but the interesting part is the forensic sleuthing that led to outing the guilty party: With some help of a user in the community, we tracked [...]
I was up at the Abbey Lounge last night in Somerville checking out “Dave Alpert”:http://davealpert.com, a local singer/songwriter. I met him a few weeks ago at a video-blogger meetup in Jamaica Plain. I ended up recording the performance on my cheap, iPod fool-you-once-knockoff, defunct Japanese company’s mp3 benchwarmer. It’s got a crappy built-in mic I [...]
