Roy van Rijn - Slashdot User

Submission + - Amateur programmer meets software patents (google.com)

Submitted by Roy van Rijn on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @06:28PM

Roy van Rijn writes: A couple of weeks ago, in a spare weekend, I wrote software that could recognise music through listening to the microphone, much like SoundHound and Shazam. After populair demand I was just about to release the code into the open source community when I got an email from Landmark Digital Services LLC. They claim my hobby project is infringing their patents. This took me on a journey to find out more about software patents and the validity of the requests I got from the company.

Submission + - MySpace music player hacked

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Roy van Rijn

on Saturday September 16, 2006 @07:11AM

Roy van Rijn writes: "Tech-recipes reports: Lately MySpace has been the victim of many little hacks, but this one I find very intresting. With the help of a little program you can download (here) or even run online (for non Windows users, but probably slashdotted soon) you can grab all the songs from MySpace as mp3 files. All you need to have is their 'friendID' which is in every url as parameter."

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