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Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of sh*t"

by mtippett | February 23, 2009 at 11:07 am

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Last.fm, a fantastic service that streams commercial-free music over the net has come out swinging against allegations made by TechCrunch that they are giving away member information to help the record industry police piracy. They write:

On Friday night a technology blog called Techcrunch posted a vicious and completely false rumour about us: that Last.fm handed data to the RIAA so they could track who’s been listening to the “leaked” U2 album.
I denied it vehemently on the Techcrunch article, as did several other Last.fm staffers. We denied it in the Last.fm forums, on twitter, via email – basically we denied it to anyone that would listen, and now we’re denying it on our blog.

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Uwe Paschen

at 02:15 on February 26th, 2009

Hum, Well I suppose that is it then unless it is not. Some one could still have leaked information or hacked into the system. On the other hand it may all be a attempt to harm them or commit defamation and break the trust.

The damage is done one way or the other and will take some time to fix. Defamation can kill a business.