Last.fm Shoots Down Rumors Over U2 Album Leak

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 23, 2009 @03:37AM from the eno-is-the-only-reason-u2-still-exists dept.

nandemoari writes "Internet radio site Last.fm has denied reports that it told the record industry which of its members had listened to a leaked U2 album. The site claims the entire story, published by Techcrunch, was made up. Last week the record industry became extremely concerned after U2's forthcoming album appeared on several torrent file sharing sites. While there is no way any users could have acquired the album through Last.fm, the site's statistics suggest that more than 8,000 users have played the unreleased album on their machines."

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Re:Looks like the privacy paranoiacs win this roun by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-23 04:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Who cares about U2 anyway!?!? Seriously, I hope they only have 8,000 listeners in the whole world but even then that's too many.
Why?
You see U2 sued the living bejesus out of the band Negativland over some utterly silly shit and U2 denied it for the longest time but then a few years ago U2 got caught in a lie. The link is to a conference in which one of Negativland's members happens to find the very person who gave a copy of their album to U2, a manager for REM. Yeah, lie to us some more Bono.