Last.fm reporting leaked music listeners?

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damageinc
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Last.fm reporting leaked music listeners?

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In a strange technological twist, it seems that music listening and song logging website last.fm may have turned over information logged by its scrobbling software to the RIAA. The situation in question concerns a leaked U2 album and users whose scrobbling software revealed them to have downloaded the leaked album, a clear violation of copyright laws.

Update: Last.fm has responded:
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.
Read more HERE

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Well, this is weird. Death Magnetic or Chinese Democracy leaked too, but you couldn't notice anything like this.
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Re: Last.fm reporting leaked music listeners?

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That's why I turn off lastfm when I listen to leaked stuff.
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