I'm not sure it's useful to behave rashly upon news like this broken by sources like this. I'd recommend strongly against attempting to use this to promote libre.fm directly.
That doesn't mean we can do what we've always done, saying "hey, look, an alternative exists, check it out" :} -Sohum On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 19:34, Matthew Larsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey there, > > I literally just deleted my last.fm account and signed up for libre, on > account of Tim's recommendation. I read the articles about passing around > user data, to be frank if they are going to treat / think of treating me > like some sort of 'data cow' they have lost my custom! > > Looking forward to helping out on this project. > > Regards, > ------------ > Matthew G Larsen > > [email protected] > > United Kingdom > > www.twitter.com/matlarsen > > > > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Dan Brickley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 24/5/09 11:15, Dan Brickley wrote: >> > On 24/5/09 10:51, Tim Dobson wrote: >> >> Hey Guys, >> >> >> >> Libre.fm should work this to their advantage. >> >> >> >> http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/deny-this-lastfm/ >> >> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/23/2149255&art_pos=5 >> > >> > Yep. But bear in mind these remain unconfirmed rumours. We should bear >> > in mind that libre.fm is based largely on copying the work of the >> > last.fm team, and they deserve to be treated respectfully. It is natural >> > for users of last.fm to be looking around for work-a-like systems that >> > have different privacy policies and risks, and libre.fm should be there >> > with a clear message deserving of links from techcrunch, slashdot etc. >> > But there's no need for anyone hear to bad-mouth last.fm to achieve >> > this... >> >> I'll just follow up on this briefly in case it is misread: I don't mean >> to suggest that anyone here (last of all Tim) is bad-mouthing last.fm >> currently. Just that we should avoid any temptation to do so that is >> posed by the current rumours... >> >> cheers >> >> Dan >> _______________________________________________ >> Libre-fm mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm > > > _______________________________________________ > Libre-fm mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm > > _______________________________________________ Libre-fm mailing list [email protected] http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm
