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"Not a Mini-Spy"

Posted by michael on from the dick-tracy dept.

An Anonymous Coward sent in: "Does a device for audience measurement which "registers what its wearer hears every minute of the day" bother anybody else?" I hope they get paid well for wearing these.

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  1. More accurate radio ratings...? Maybe... by hillct · · Score: 4
    Yah. Read the article before commmenting. It's a ratings gathering tool, loaned to the user if they choose to help ACNeilson.
    My question is, "will this actually improvethe accuracy of music ratings and perhaps allow artists to recieve the residuals they actually deserve?". There is a Vary good article about the music ratings system, used to determine royalties paid to artists based on the frequency of broadcast of their work on the radio. Will ASCAP and/or BMI adopt this sort of a strategy to do their information gathering? It would be vary promising for such an application. A quick summary of the article I mentioned:
    ASCAP tapes over 60,000 hours of radio airplay in order to identify the music played and on that basis, distributes a percentage of the license fees collected from radio stations and other performance venues, to the artists who's music appears most frequently in the sampled material, in the percentages associated with that performance frequency.
    It seems that the neilson system could be applied here to much more cost effectively and accurately measure music performance frequency, and doll out royalty fees more fairly.

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  2. Reminded of Brin's "Earth" by localroger · · Score: 4
    David Brin constructed a future in his novel Earth wherein nearly everyone wore continuously-recording TV camera/VCR "glasses" all the time, and privacy was considered vaguely obscene. While I can see the usefulness of this device from the standpoint of the ratings biz, it's a bit surprising to see it casually accepted by end-user snoopees.

    I can see the events reconstructed by one of these watches...

    • 7:30 PM radio WRNO (car)
    • 8:15 PM disc jockey at Club Vinyl
    • 8:47 PM conversation with female acquaintance
    • 9:05 PM radio WRNO (car) and conversation
    • 10:15 PM Bolero from CD
    • 10:27 PM watch taken off
    Hmmmm, I wonder if it keeps listening after you take it off too...
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  3. I had one... by emn-slashdot · · Score: 4

    I had one until about a month ago. I was rather disturbed by the fact that several parts on the inside had microdot versions of the DMCA on it, and one chip said property of the NSA...

    but perhaps I'm just being paranoid.


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