Comments on: not buying stuff you can’t pay for is good

By: Cait

Cait — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:52:33 +0000

…butttt but but. My understanding, and it’s certainly the impression given by Lsast itself, is that CBS is not interfering in the day to day business of Lasat. Ultimately, they were independent for as long as they really could be, and nowthey need to rationalise their business model.

Speaking as a long (and I mean looooong) term subscriber to Last, and to Flickr, and other really brilliant and wonderful things that I love and wish to support with my hard earned wages, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for users who want it all to remain free.

I realise this is not a particularly fsahionable opinion , but you know. Get real, you freeloadaing idiots! (Heh).

By: Lucas Gonze

Lucas Gonze — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:06:48 +0000

CBS is very pre-internet. They are all about swinging the vast bulk of their pre-internet ass up onto the deck of the internet. Like Jabba the Hut but slightly more nimble.

By: victor

victor — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:10:36 +0000

I haven’t decided how I feel about last.fm’s series of moves. On one hand my son tells me that last has been invaluable in his discovery of new, old and especially “underground” music (as he identifies it).

On the other hand I am blindly and bitterly prejudiced against CBS but also find it difficult to give them credit when they are so deeply embedded in the corrupt, gouging, pre-internet archaic licensing system.

Regarding the 3rd party hackers who made mobile plugins, my understanding is that they were using undocumented URLs they scraped from the site. If that’s true then I have zero sympathy for them or their users. hack+entitlement=loser