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Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?

February 20, 2009

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UPDATE: Apparently not. See the first comment from Alex at Last.FM

word is going around that the RIAA asked social music service Last.fm for data about its user’s listening habits to find people with unreleased tracks on their computers. And Last.fm, which is owned by CBS, actually handed the data over to the RIAA

Check it out here.

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  1. Alex Pounds says

    TechCrunch’s article is incorrect and completely baseless – it’s been denied by Last.fm on-the-record¹:

    “We’ve never had any request for such data by anyone, and if we did we wouldn’t consent to it.

    Of course we work with the major labels and provide them with broad statistics, as we would with any other label, but we’d never personally identify our users to a third party – that goes against everything we stand for.”

    ¹ http://www.last.fm/forum/21713/_/506518/_/8660996

    February 20, 2009, 7:08 pm
  2. Trent Nelson says

    Thanks for your quick response Alex. I love Last.FM

    February 20, 2009, 7:52 pm
  3. Katie Gunion says

    Hey – I’m Last.fm’s PR person. FYI http://blog.last.fm/2009/02/23/techcrunch-are-full-of-shit

    February 23, 2009, 3:29 pm

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