onsdag 25 Mar 2009, 7:47

Another attempt from the UK+US to exploit the rest of the world (but still bewaring of the Hun)???:

Non-US, -UK or -German users are forced to pay for streaming tracks now (!)

slashdot writes:
"The popular online radio service Last.fm has announced that users outside of the UK, USA and Germany will need to start paying 3 Euros (about $4.40 USD/£2.80 GBP) per month to continue streaming music on their service. Last.fm doesn't offer much of a reason as to the change, other than writing on their blog that 'here will be a 30 track free trial, and we hope this will convince people to subscribe and keep listening to the radio.' Already, there appears to be quite a backlash in responses so far, amongst subscribers and non-subscribers of all nationalities — has this killed Last.fm's appeal, globally?"

Some comments from the last.fm blog:
- "Not a surprise. Of course we from third world will pay for USA, UK and Germany, as usual."
- "Last.fm is going dooooown…. I’m a former subscriber, and soon i’ll be a former user…"

Thinking about a capitalist bitch last.fm boycott, too…

ps. It's not about paying fees for listening to streams. It's about that kind of "Apartheid".
All or none!

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