Last.fm didn’t hand user data over to the RIAA. According to our source, it was their parent company, CBS, that did it. That corresponds to what our original source said in conversations we had after our initial post and before CBS lawyers became involved. But we didn’t want to update until we had an independent source for that information, too... -- why I'm not surprised that your (data submission) relationship with last.fm might have interesting consequences :) may be even legal/law-enforcement one, who knows? - A.T. from Bookmarklet

last.fm account *marked as deleted*. bye last.fm, you had been fun... you ain't anymore with all these hounds from RIAA and labels. - A.T.

interesting artifact of last.fm - if you send your "last letter" to friend list to keep contact, and then immediately close account, your letter won't be shown to them "message not available - user has deleted his account"... - A.T.

I guess if you close your account and tell them to remove it, that will remove all the messages and comments you have put. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

well, after user data giveaway mentioned above, such "care about user's privacy" looks rather odd - A.T.

this looks like a serious data privacy violation. I really like(d) last.fm, and trust building looks very different ! - joergkurtwegner

Has anyone experience with the 'open' version http://libre.fm - joergkurtwegner

libre.fm is just starting - they are probably not that perfect, and might need certain skills to tune it up (i.e. they are not a product yet) - A.T.

will join libre.fm and compare. - 9000