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Author Topic: last.fm to start charging for streaming music  (Read 2881 times)

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last.fm to start charging for streaming music
« on: 25 Mar 2009, 06:22 »

http://mashable.com/2009/03/24/lastfm-international-users/

OK, only for actually streaming music, and "only" outside UK, USA and Germany.
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Re: last.fm to start charging for streaming music
« Reply #1 on: 25 Mar 2009, 08:38 »

Well, that doesn't really surprise me, actually. The only thing I find weird is that country thing.
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Re: last.fm to start charging for streaming music
« Reply #2 on: 25 Mar 2009, 09:19 »

Meh, I didn't use that function anyway. I just like crunching the numbers.
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Re: last.fm to start charging for streaming music
« Reply #3 on: 25 Mar 2009, 10:32 »

don't scare me like that.

my iPod is dying slowly and painfully (so i can't plug it into my computer) so the only way i have to listen to music at work is to open my last.fm player thingy and turn on my radio station.
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Re: last.fm to start charging for streaming music
« Reply #4 on: 25 Mar 2009, 10:56 »

I would not be surprised if this was a precursor to them charging everyone for streaming music.
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Re: last.fm to start charging for streaming music
« Reply #5 on: 25 Mar 2009, 13:19 »

Is it because they can't find/don't want to bother finding enough advertisers for the other countries?
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Re: last.fm to start charging for streaming music
« Reply #6 on: 25 Mar 2009, 13:46 »

wait. You can listen to music on Last.FM?
 
I thought it was to impress people with your record collection
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Re: last.fm to start charging for streaming music
« Reply #7 on: 25 Mar 2009, 14:08 »

That stays free  :evil:
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Re: last.fm to start charging for streaming music
« Reply #8 on: 25 Mar 2009, 14:44 »

This makes sense to me, but it'll still gonna prevent me from streaming music on last.fm.
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Re: last.fm to start charging for streaming music
« Reply #9 on: 26 Mar 2009, 06:59 »

I was going to mention Pandora Radio, but you all probably know about that already.
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