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

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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

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  1. Alex Pounds

    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