“A great science fiction detective story” - Ian Watson, author of The Universal Machine

Read the article here.
A video (not from the article) of robotic band EOL (End of Life) playing Marilyn Manson’s The Beautiful People is embedded below. If it doesn’t play properly, watch it here.
You may also want to take a look at (or listen to) Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson, in which he discusses the history of copyright and today’s copyright crisis and its historical relation to automated music in the form of player pianos. You can get a zip file of the audiobook for free here