-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Last.fm’s User Data is Useless to the RIAA
,----[ Quote ]
| In February TechCrunch rumored that Last.fm had ratted out its users to the
| RIAA. Now they have another source claiming data was shared with the music
| industry group, including IP addresses. Without going into the validity of
| these allegations, we’d like to point out that this data is completely
| useless to the RIAA, from a legal point of view.
`----
http://torrentfreak.com/lastfms-data-is-useless-to-the-riaa-090523/
Deny This, Last.fm
,----[ Quote ]
| A couple of months ago Erick Schonfeld wrote a post titled “Did Last.fm Just
| Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?” based on a source that has proved
| to be very reliable in the past. All hell broke loose shortly thereafter.
`----
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/deny-this-lastfm/
Last.fm has legit stuff. What gives the MAFIAA the right to dig into people's
data as though they are assumed to be criminals? This is ripe for abuse.
Recent:
Libre.fm - Building An Open Last.fm
,----[ Quote ]
| Now there are plans afoot to create a completely free (as in freedom)
| alternative called Libre.fm. I’ve been on Last.fm for a couple of years now
| and the main benefit for me is keeping track of the music I listen to whilst
| also advertising my fabulous *ahem* taste and sharing with friends. It keeps
| track of the music you play through a back-end system called Audioscrobbler
| which records song names, artists, albums etc and shows them on your profile
| page.
`----
http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/04/librefm/
Review of the Last.fm Open-Source Client for Linux
,----[ Quote ]
| Last.fm is an open-source application licensed under the GPL, allowing you to
| listen to Last.fm radio stations and submit the songs in the same time. For
| those of you unfamiliar with Last.fm, it's a great social music community,
| allowing you to submit songs you currently listen to, statistics, forums for
| bands or music styles (or even more: Amarok has a group, most major
| distributions also, and you can start your own group about anything, match
| people and discuss), together with information for each artist, open for
| anyone to edit, just like the Wikipedia style.
`----
http://vivapinkfloyd.blogspot.com/2008/06/lastfm-open-source-application-to.html
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAkods2QACgkQU4xAY3RXLo6RiQCfQwDUM73uZjsfDow+n+tI5bP6
JkUAoK8xDhyxUYt0+ectUjoXw0yWgyLH
=0ciX
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
|
|
