Comments on: Last.fm’s User Data is Useless to the RIAA http://torrentfreak.com/lastfms-data-is-useless-to-the-riaa-090523/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:12:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: Podcast: Tech Weekly, Last.fm on personal data and competition « Free Music Everywhere (Un espacio para la música libre y gratuita) /lastfms-data-is-useless-to-the-riaa-090523/#comment-566119 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:50:48 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=13471#comment-566119 [...] http://torrentfreak.com/lastfms-data-is-useless-to-the-riaa-090523/ Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)PodcastA fascinating conversation about NAR/DOJ… [...]

]]> By: UPDATE - UPDATE /lastfms-data-is-useless-to-the-riaa-090523/#comment-565877 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:18:36 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=13471#comment-565877 This is 100% fake – look at the ars post
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/lastfmriaa-drama-round-2-denials-denials-denials.ars

]]> By: trusting /lastfms-data-is-useless-to-the-riaa-090523/#comment-564517 Wed, 27 May 2009 19:37:54 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=13471#comment-564517 Once the have an IP address of a “likely infringer” why wouldn’t they just sniff traffic from that host and see if it’s filesharing and if so go after them on that basis, completely disregarding the original source of the IP?

Your claim that this data is completely useless to the RIAA is wrong. The data has forensic value and certainly CAN be used against end users.

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]]> By: derco /lastfms-data-is-useless-to-the-riaa-090523/#comment-564270 Tue, 26 May 2009 19:33:28 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=13471#comment-564270 how about suing RIAA for invading privacy? We all know that a cop need a warrant to come in your house when suspicious criminal activity but not without any reasonable doubt. How come RIAA could go above the law, obtain your information before you even become a prime suspect or person of interest?

]]> By: Anonymous /lastfms-data-is-useless-to-the-riaa-090523/#comment-564269 Tue, 26 May 2009 19:33:04 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=13471#comment-564269 how about suing RIAA for invading privacy? We all know that a cop need a warrant to come in your house when suspicious criminal activity but not without any reasonable doubt. How come RIAA could go above the law, obtain your information before you even become a prime suspect or person of interest?

]]> By: negatyve /lastfms-data-is-useless-to-the-riaa-090523/#comment-564221 Tue, 26 May 2009 17:25:18 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=13471#comment-564221 What’s all the fuss about RIAA getting last.fm data? What do people think last.fm’s business model is? They gather data and sell it to the music industry. Last.fm doesn’t share, they sell.

Now, if the RIAA wanted specific data on users who play a certain album or tracks, they could write an app to farm that info and then work through legal channels to force last.fm to disclose that info. I personally don’t think the RIAA would ever bother since they could farm public torrent trackers and gnutella daily for users and never sue them all.

Besides, the RIAA announced that they were no longer going to go after file sharers.

]]> By: mohammadihs /lastfms-data-is-useless-to-the-riaa-090523/#comment-564213 Tue, 26 May 2009 17:14:14 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=13471#comment-564213 This defence of last.fm is terrible. RIAA generally employs the threat of legal action when dealing with individual pirates and settles outside of court for exorbitant sums. The claims often don’t even make it to court. And though this information may be useless on it’s own, it’ll destroy certain defences. For example, if so-and-so was using the defence of an unencrypted ( wireless connection and somebody else must’ve been responsible for the actual fire-sharing. This has already been brought up by others here, but this is a far more significant breach of trust than the author is willing to acknowledge because of his or her own biases towards the service.

]]> By: Bart /lastfms-data-is-useless-to-the-riaa-090523/#comment-564161 Tue, 26 May 2009 14:42:11 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=13471#comment-564161 [quote]Apparently Last.fm’s official client also does fingerprinting as LANjackal points out. However, the ‘evidence’ would still be far from usable in court.[/quote]

True. The software – including the fingerprinting – is open source (see http://blog.last.fm/2007/08/29/audio-fingerprinting-for-clean-metadata), so one can generate and scrobble false fingerprinting data too. This is not very likely of course however.

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