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IT Manager’s Journal: AudioGlobe Startup Melds Music, DRM, Open Source

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“AudioGlobe founder Jon Joye and his band sort of happened onto
their desire to adjust the digital rights management (DRM) for
their music in the same way members of the musical group tuned
their instruments, mixing their melodies and rights management
while releasing music for consumption. Now, with an eye on
leveraging open source after witnessing its power, the Oregon State
University masters grad and Rip City rocker is poised to take
AudioGlobe’s patent-pending technology to investors, and then
hopefully to more and more musicians and their listeners.

“By building what the company calls ‘intelligent content’ into
music from the very beginning of digital recording, AudioGlobe’s
technology is an effort to separate application and content
management, putting the content in control, rather than the
application, explained Joye, a drummer in the three-man ‘heavy
psychedelic’ band Vincent Black Shadow, which is featured on
AudioGlobe’s site and currently needs a bass player…”


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