{"id":63,"date":"2009-05-25T06:46:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T05:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2009\/05\/25\/bad-timing-lastfm\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:16:26","slug":"bad-timing-lastfm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2009\/05\/25\/bad-timing-lastfm\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad timing, Last.fm"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nDate: Wed, 20 May 2009 14:05:42 +0000<br \/>\nTo: @bofh.priv.at<br \/>\nFrom: &#8220;Last.fm&#8221; <no -reply@mailer.last.fm><br \/>\nSubject: Your free trial to Last.fm Radio is over. Did you enjoy it?<\/p>\n<p>Hi XYZ,<\/p>\n<p>Your free trial to Last.fm Radio is about to end. If you&#8217;re enjoying it, why not<br \/>\nsubscribe for only &euro;3.00\/month and continue listening to non-stop personalised<br \/>\nradio.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.last.fm\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Best Regards,<br \/>\nThe Last.fm Team<br \/>\n<\/no><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/05\/22\/deny-this-lastfm\/\">Deny This, Last.fm<\/a><br \/>\nby Michael Arrington on May 22, 2009<\/p>\n<p>A couple of months ago Erick Schonfeld wrote a post titled &#8220;Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?&#8221; based on a source that has proved to be very reliable in the past. All hell broke loose shortly thereafter.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was inclined to pay them the 3&euro;, partly because I&#8217;ve listened a lot to a stream from them, but after this breach of their privacy agreement? <\/p>\n<p>Sorry, no deal guys.<\/p>\n<p>[Update: yes, I know that LastFM is disputing this story.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 14:05:42 +0000 To: @bofh.priv.at From: &#8220;Last.fm&#8221; Subject: Your free trial to Last.fm Radio is over. Did you enjoy it? Hi XYZ, Your free trial to Last.fm Radio is about to end. If you&#8217;re enjoying it, why not subscribe for only &euro;3.00\/month and continue listening to non-stop personalised radio. http:\/\/www.last.fm\/subscribe Best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-pet-peeves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}