Dude, sweeeet!
The popular music website LastFM has upgraded their system so that music fans can request to listen to their favorite songs when they so choose.
But won’t the record companies be pissed people can just listen online for free?
Ah, but you see young padawan, LastFM is funded by advertising revenue from their millions of page hits that they share with the record companies. Also, when you stream the song there is a link that directs you to Amazon.com where you can purchase the track. Although, LastFM has always been legit and has been calling up labels to license songs to stream on the site since 2002.
Well what changed so that they could get full songs and albums?
Another excellent question! Gold Star! Last May, CBS purchased LastFM for $280 million. Now that means they can get in bed with Universal. Sony/BMG, Warner and EMI, who all own about 70% of the world’s recorded music.
Dude, sweeeet!
Well worth repeating sir. I concur.
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i used the client a while ago but haven’t in a while since i have a lappy now and all my music is on my desktop.
i bet they have improved it a lot and have added a bunch of new itunes integration tools.
ps - i think i may add on this article lastfm tweaks i found.
I haven’t had any problems with my last.fm, my computer’s myriad other problems make it hard to tell if something else is wrong. Regardless, dude, sweeeet!
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Comment by amber — January 23, 2008 @ 6:43 pm
i miss my last fm. i deleted it b/c the program was making my system slow, and taking up a bunch of space on my hard drive. has anything changed in the past 2 years in this regard?
what i mean is: is it fucking better or what?