music researchers vs DRM
Posted on May 5, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Comments Off
I never thought of this before, but DRM can cause big problems for music researchers:
One of the big problems faced by Music Information Retrieval researchers is how to get good data for MIR experiments. Even a small scale music classification experiment may require 10,000 songs. At $1 per song, that’s $10,000 just for the data [...]