Hi from Last.fm, I’m one of the founders (and the original founder of audioscrobbler, the music tracking plugin).
I’m not going to write much right now because i’m rather pissed off this article was published, except to say that this is utter nonsense and totally untrue.
As far as I can tell, the author of this article got a “tip” from _one_ person and decided to make a story out of it. Techcrunch is full of shit, film at 11.
That was my first thought -- not that the rumor was untrue, but that it was an exceptionally weak basis for a story, and possibly bordering on irresponsible. A tip from a random person via email that starts off with "I heard from a friend..." is hardly the type of thing you go to press with.
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Hi from Last.fm, I’m one of the founders (and the original founder of audioscrobbler, the music tracking plugin).
I’m not going to write much right now because i’m rather pissed off this article was published, except to say that this is utter nonsense and totally untrue.
As far as I can tell, the author of this article got a “tip” from _one_ person and decided to make a story out of it. Techcrunch is full of shit, film at 11.