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Sinitsin
Thanks a lot for pissing all over me as a non-american/briton/german. I have subscribed to your service for years now and always felt it was worth every penny - but what Last.fm is doing now is just insulting. The irony is that if everybody (even those in the privileged countries) would have to pay a fee to use the radio you would have earned more money and I'm pretty sure the reactions wouldn't have been half as hostile as the ones you get now. If there is an award for stupid business decision-making Last.fm is from now on my main favourite to "win" it.
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guillaumel
When audio ads will be available in France ? I'll keep scrobbling but Free is Free !
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Kaffeeklatch
Hey, now.. what are you guys thinking of that free trial of Last.fm radio? it used to be free. now we must subscribe in order to listen to a radio. do you think we will subscribe? oh, heck! go bankrupt! x)
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strangeloop
(I deleted two previous shouts here. I realize this whole episode will not have been easy for you and all your communication channels will probably be flooded with disappointed users like me. Good luck.)
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phillip360
Dear Richard, It is believed that you need a positive welcome to the [group]'pataphysics[/group] group.
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Clair-Obscure
WoW ... how intelligent is someone telling to the whole world that they have to pay for listining the radio while USA - United Kingdom and Germany may be listen it freely ?! This website is going to die .. You know why ?? Because you are going to loose the world outside these 3 countries... And poeple from these countries will escape from you because no one but them is going to be here.
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BonaFideLotus
Hello, I wanted to ask, who was the genius behind the whole "charge third world country users" idea? Because us: latinamerica, africa, oriental europe, we cannot afford, or pay for this service. Paypal doesnt work in many of our countries, and some of them (like mine) have absurd laws like a prohibition of currency exchange. This is what is going to happen: we will have to leave. we will leave and open an account in libre.fm. And you will not gain a dime because the users that are going to stay will be those who dont use the radio or those in US and UK and Germany. And then, once all the millions of users that do not live in those countries flee. Your website will lose most of its content. UK and US users will leave, and lastfm will be JUST ANOTHER music website. Sorry boys but wrong decision-making.
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arabhorse
I'd love to hear an answer to Rafacarrascosa's questions. It's bad enough the fee service is discriminatory in and of itself, but I just read on the forums that even those outside the USA/UK/DE who pay the 'script fee will still not get the same services as those within the above countries. No On-Demand service, among other things. This should be embarrassing to you - and I've been here since the Audioscrobbler days; joined in 2004 and remember the ethic back then, and how much potential there was, and all the promise (and promises). What happened to that spirit? Would the person from 5 years ago have allowed this inexcusable inequity?.............p.s., this is not a 'nasty' comment, but the actions of the site's representatives are nasty. There's a difference between being nasty and being (correctly) critical. If most didn't care, they'd just leave. It's because they care that they stay and protest - consider that before you destroy this community and further.
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snakedoctor453
don't know if you really read these, but my sympathies and apologies for all the nasty comments you're getting. last.fm isn't perfect but some of us appreciate what you're doing to keep it going. good luck to you and the team! (2) Last.fm is just.... (snakedoctor is speechless)
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rafacarrascosa
Bandwidth cost goes in a per listener basis. Publicity fee is charged (or should be) based on the size of the target audience. ie, if you have 1,000 users from Argentina and 1,000,000 in USA, you should get paid 1,000 times more for publicity in USA. Following this, the (bandwidth cost)/(publicity income per user) ratio is constant. I think you guys are not being completely honest about why the radio service is going to be paid. Is my reasoning wrong? why? how?
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Fr0mN0where
Has there ever been such a blatant discrimination based on nationality by any company ever? How is this possible when EU law explicitly prohibits such discrimination?
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Fr0mN0where
Article 21 - “Any discrimination based on any ground such as sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation shall be prohibited.” http://www.europarl.europa.eu/comparl/libe/elsj/charter/art21/default_en.htm
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Elisabeth87
Hi, I would like to know when there will be a possibility to pay for the suscribtion per sms. I wanted to become a suscriber for two years now, but I don't have a credit card, so it is impossible for me. I understand of course that this will take some time, but I am really looking forward to it. You are still working on it, aren't you? Thank you in advance for your answer. I wish you a nice day. ~Lisi
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Fr0mN0where
I believe that last.fm action may be in contravention of European Law regarding discrimination on the grounds of nationality?
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violeta_virlan
shout to users from the UK ,Germany and the US ...boycott Last.fm as well even though you are the chosen few; join the cause of common sense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are plenty other free streams...let's stand up!
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diegosallun
Hello RJ. As orkut, facebook, myspace and the other bunch role of communities of the web did, can't you just find another way to get the money you need to keep this website? Last.fm is incredible, but nobody wants to pay for this. Not in the directly way. In Brazil, we see that myspace have found a way to keep it on, while adversiting its artists, and those who wants to be like that. I think that last fm could transform itself on a very best website, by simple. Don't ask for our money, but for those who are here to sell it (artists, records, tv channel,etc). Regards
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claromileto
who took this beautiful decision to pay for listen to the radio? and why not in UK, USA and Deutschland? But our statistics and our infos are free, isn't it? I hope that Linux takes audioscrobbler and make you fail, and to have subscribers more and more ignorant!
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Koffieentv
Desperate decision you guys made. i was a enthousiastic listener, user and member of last.fm. Because the reason that the strenght of last.fm 'free' was. yes, was. You broke my heart, and i think that of many other enthousiastic members. Sad. Very very sad. I hope you make the last.fm radio free again. Farewell.
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Eindhar
byebye thanks for all you did for me. i hope you can continue to live and flourish also without many users like me. i'm going to delete my playlists and every track of my passage here. again thanks for all the good music i discovered from you, i'm passing to YAHOO RADIO which is free
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patanpatan
"RJ loved Ice Cube – Turn Off the Radio. yesterday afternoon"... that's a joke, right? It isn't funny at all
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lordofanywhere
Hi! just a suggestion, remove the word "gratis" on the Spanish site (where you can read something like "listen to the radio and get recommendations for free"), that's deceptive advertising and you could get sued in Spain. I'm sorry for you taking this decision and the way you took it, I think you should not have made 2 groups of countries. I don't know for how long will I stay here, but what's for sure is that this is no longer my favourite place on the web. And one more thing, I'm a subscriber, and I was a subscriber before you made the announcements.
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abbategius
Good bye Last.fm... about 20 tracks only before the end... from my subscription at last.fm i was stopped all the p2p sw and all the morning i was wakeup happy... now i'm come back to starting all the p2p client... (FREEEEEE WEB!!!)
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