Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?
I heard from an irate friend who works at CBS that last.fm recently provided the RIAA with a giant dump of user data to track down people who are scrobbling unreleased tracks. As word spread numerous employees at last.fm were up in arms because the data collected (a) can be used to identify individuals and (b) will likely be shared with 3rd parties that have relationships with the RIAA.Time to junk those scrobblers if you’ve got any songs in your library for which you don’t have a signed license in triplicate.
