Matejunkie » techcrunch http://www.matejunkie.com "Look behind you, a Three-Headed Monkey!" Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:26:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Last.fm profile gone for good reason http://www.matejunkie.com/lastfm-profile-gone-for-good-reason/ http://www.matejunkie.com/lastfm-profile-gone-for-good-reason/#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 17:25:21 +0000 Mike Adolphs http://www.matejunkie.com/?p=1075 I just hit the panic button and deleted my Last.fm profile after I’ve read a german blog post at Koehntopp’s blog and afterwards several articles at Techcrunch. 116.186 plays down the drain, but for good reason. It seems that CBS, Last.fm’s parent company, requested user data related to the leak of an U2 album to actually forward this data to the RIAA.
Although I haven’t been some kind of a target, this is unacceptable for me since I’m interested in where my data is being used and for what purpose it gets stored.

Koehntopp already mentioned this two years ago, now it actually happened. Blame me that I haven’t done this until now.

You might want to consider to do so as well. There’s an open service called Libre.fm which seems to fill the gap although it’s still under heavy development.

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