PWN Last.fm Brings Torrents to Last.fm

Written by Ernesto on July 17, 2009 

Last.fm is a great service to discover new music and share listening habits with the rest of the Internet, but since its launch the site has lacked proper BitTorrent support. This shortcoming has now be fixed by PWN Last.fm, a well integrated Greasemonkey script that adds the latest torrents to artist pages on Last.fm.

With millions of active users, Last.fm is one the largest and most appreciated music communities on the Internet. Its main purpose is to create a personalized library of all the music users play, but it’s also a handy music discovery tool and recommendation engine.

Although the service enables its users to check out short previews of artists that are recommended to them, they still have to pay the full price for album or track downloads. However, PWN Last.fm aims to change this by adding BitTorrent downloads to the site.

PWN Last.fm is offering a script that works with Firefox’s Greasemonkey add-on and the Opera web-browser. By using isoHunt’s publicly available API, the script adds BitTorrent search results to every artist page on Last.fm, very well integrated into the site’s design.

The search results show the first 15 torrents with full titles, file-size and the number of active seeds and peers. In addition, every torrent has a play icon with a direct link to Bitlet where the torrent can be streamed directly to get a full preview of the tracks.

‘PWN Last.fm’ is not the only pirate add-on for Firefox, in fact there are quite a few. Last year we covered the ‘Pirates of the Amazon‘ add-on that offered BitTorrent integration for the Amazon web store.

In addition, IMDB, Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes all have their own pirate skin available. Most of the scripts work with the Greasemonkey add-on which allows the installation of all kinds of useful user scripts which customize the web to your pirate needs.

Last.fm’s Torrented Artists Pages

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31 Responses

1 Jul 18, 2009 at 00:46 by North America

Wouldn’t it be better to visit thepiratebay or mininova to read the comments about the quality of the music or movies?

2 Jul 18, 2009 at 00:49 by Friendly advice

If the gentlemen of thepiratebay still have some friends left (who are probably still believing that the boys weren’t in it for the money all the way) then could you please tell our friendly neighborhood techno anarchist that it is best to run off to countries where a) cops cannot be bought to put someone in jail just for fun and b)you actually wouldn’t mind being sent to jail because they’d allow you to use your PC as well as toilet paper.

c?m ?n

3 Jul 18, 2009 at 00:51 by Charbax

This is kind of what I suggested back in 2007: http://forum.emule-project.net/index.php?showtopic=121895

4 Jul 18, 2009 at 00:56 by jebus

i just tried it out and it’s alright. i’d rather just goto torrentz or something and type in what i’m looking for. cool script tho.

5 Jul 18, 2009 at 01:02 by tecben

Firefox’s Greasemonkey + isoHunt API + Bitlet = PWN Last.fm :DDDD

6 Jul 18, 2009 at 01:02 by Charbax

Needs to edit search queries, navigate to next page button and to let users choose to order by most seeds by default.

7 Jul 18, 2009 at 01:11 by TorrFrak

The site seems to have changed from what was originally reported. pwnlast.fm does not provide any Greasemonkey script. Instead, it provides a redirect service to The Pirate Bay.

8 Jul 18, 2009 at 01:15 by Ernesto

@TorrFrak

Scroll down…

9 Jul 18, 2009 at 02:35 by Torrentino

Ah, this reminds me of Pirates of Amazon; the addon for MF that shows torrent downloads on Amazon IIRC.

10 Jul 18, 2009 at 02:36 by Anonymous

There’s been a GM script for private trackers for a while now.

11 Jul 18, 2009 at 02:50 by theguy

Limewire? people still use it?

12 Jul 18, 2009 at 04:01 by lold there

I will fix this later, kool

13 Jul 18, 2009 at 04:13 by .neo.styles|nvDX

Great. More freeloading.

14 Jul 18, 2009 at 05:36 by orzabit

well sounds great but i have the same problem as TorrFrak it just redirects me to thepiratebay. I saw ernesto wrote scroll down, but to what?

But anyway thanks for yet another great information here on torrentfreak.

15 Jul 18, 2009 at 05:48 by Hom3r

don’t use last.fm but cool…. similar to pwnyoutube.com (probably got the idea from there)

16 Jul 18, 2009 at 05:58 by .neo.styles|nvDX

No, I’m the real Slim Shady.

17 Jul 18, 2009 at 06:17 by Anonymous

So I heard you like Mudkips.

18 Jul 18, 2009 at 10:49 by Simon

I quite like the idea of this, since I regularly use last.fm to find artists, and then go TPB or Mininova them, so this could save me a few minutes.

19 Jul 18, 2009 at 13:11 by Sendaii

I don’t use Last.fm, plenty of better streaming sites around. Still, that looks pretty neat.

20 Jul 18, 2009 at 15:20 by wall

http://insanezone.ro/Fun2-24367.html

you’ll like it :)

21 Jul 18, 2009 at 19:26 by Zush

PWN? As in “PWNED!”? ;)

22 Jul 18, 2009 at 21:11 by srsly

the only feature I cared about on last.fm was they recommendations. Although I know what I would like even if it isn’t scrobbled on last.fm I love when it throws some obscure artist who just disappeared from music scene after one or two albums.

I would still care to go and look for my music on other torrent sites. At least I would know what I quality is it.

And I hate the idea of stream from torrents. Some people invest their bandwidth and computer resources and you just want to listen and let the data vanish in thin air. All download only clients/techniques on bt are anti-community.

First we had pirates and then the bad-moth3rfukin pirates. The bad mofo types should be made to walk the plank.

23 Jul 18, 2009 at 23:12 by trocster

It is telling there is no mention of pwnlast at all on last.fm, no group, no forum post no nothing.

If they were forward looking they would have introduced their members to it.

24 Jul 18, 2009 at 23:13 by trocster

reminds me of AudioGalaxy, now that was 20 years ahead of its time.

25 Jul 19, 2009 at 15:02 by Nikita Vasilyev

@Ernesto
Thanks for posting!

@Charbax
> This is kind of what I suggested back in 2007: http://forum.emule-project.net/index.php?showtopic=121895

There is nothing new here, I know it. http://blog.pwnlast.fm/post/144080144/not-new

> Needs to edit search queries, navigate to next page button and to let users choose to order by most seeds by default.

Order by most seeds will coming soon. Second issue at this moment http://github.com/NV/pwnlast.fm/issues

26 Jul 19, 2009 at 15:47 by Vitz

I would LOVE this for Waffles.

27 Jul 19, 2009 at 16:46 by RAPE RAPE RAPE

Torrents suck. Some Usenet support would be nice.

28 Jul 20, 2009 at 00:18 by Anonymous

Or just use this…way better…

http://userscripts.org/scripts
/show/20252

29 Jul 20, 2009 at 08:39 by Entertane.com

http://www.entertane.com – the easiest site for torrents (movies, music, software, games, xxx) – faster, simpler – and you can search all your favorite torrent sites. No registration needed.

30 Jul 20, 2009 at 14:41 by ankan

A similiar reverse script (for movies) is available for TPB. It shows information inline on the torrent page:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/31225

31 Jul 23, 2009 at 11:13 by Anonymous

I for one hope they don’t do thia.
It’s a dumb idea, last.fm is great, the last thing it needs is negative rep, it’s not difficult to simply search for a torrent.

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