Thread: [canola],[vegalume] Last.fm is pulling the plug
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2009-03-26 , 05:24
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For those of you not following http://maemo.org/news

http://blogs.igalia.com/berto/2009/0...aming-service/

Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
And yet all this does is encourages music piracy as well as other recommendation systems. Ones that have the backbone to fight back (like Google is doing with Youtube) or evolve so that each step they take to block or sue users the P2P method improves.
Well, it also encourages to pay for commercial mainstream music (which actually makes sense) or to listen less music from a handful of private media conglomerates (and this includes plenty of "rebel" bands) and more non-mainstream and even freely distributable music bradcasted by public and not-for-profit organizations.

http://www.rtve.es/radio/radio3/ is a great example of what the money of citizens' taxes can pay. Priceless. Only one program (Atmósfera) has been enough to change completely my habits listening music.

And about new trends in commercial services, things like http://www.comeswithmusic.com/ are also interesting to follow.
 

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