How TechCrunch Became Involved in the Last.FM Controversy

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Erick Schonfeld, co-editor of TechCrunch, discusses the Last.FM controversy that TechCrunch became involved in.

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watchmojo.com Ashkan Karbasfrooshan: Why does Last FM think that TechCrunch is full of shit. Erick Schonfeld: We ran a story about Last FM, there was a rumor the timing was cast as rumor, listening data being passed along to the RIAA. When we got that information, I tried to verify it with Last FM with CBS and, you know, the day that we did that post I reach out in the morning and it was assured that that we definitely going to get a full response on this and it's very important, I didn't hear from them, you know, all day, all day and finally I just be installed and it came clear to me that they weren't been a respond, you know, they responded with a one sentence statement, and so then, okay, I got the response and then ran the story. And it was on a Friday and they were in London right and then they claim that, well they claimed that it wasn't true but then later turned off and it was true but it was a CBS people who where doing in -- on Last FM people, so you know the Last FM people somehow didn't realized that they were owned by CBS I guess, I don't know, and that the actions of CBS Corporation with their data, you know, is that they can't distance themselves too much from that. But, you know, we did a follow on story, we got some more information about it, it's still, you know, I think that there is still some loose ends out there but it could be cleared up, but we standby the story and you know time will come. watchmojo.com
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