Comments on: CBS reports early success with Last.fm music streaming

Two days after adding free, ad-supported streaming music to the social music service, parent company CBS is already declaring victory.

[dascha1]

You Can Never Be Too Early

Is it "early success" or "early attempts" at music-on-demand?

Thanks! :)

[sbwinn]

If you think iTunes is a monopoly. . .

. . . you don't know what the word monopoly means. It is exclusive
control of a commodity or service. The fact that we are talking
about a competing music distribution service shows pretty clearly
that iTunes is not a monopoly.

[MyRightEye]

As a musician, I am more excited by these OpenSourceTrack.com guys

OST is about bringing freedom of creativity to musicians and
their music. The artist of an OST track has agreed to make some
or all of their tracks open source, or at a greatly reduced
copyright control. This means that not only can you download
the fully produced track for free, but the track's written score,
guitar tab charts and the pre-mixed individual instrument
tracks. OST tracks may be used for any non-commerical
purpose without additional license. The artist retains the
copyright to their music, and still collects royalties if the song is
used commercially. Live performance of OST tracks does not
count as commercial use.

Budding musicians can forget about sidestepping around
copyright issues when swapping music and guitar tabs by using
OST tracks. OST tracks may be performed live, remixed and
freely distributed, and derivatives of OST tracks may be used in
your own compositions.

From http://OpenSourceTrack.com

[Renegade Knight]

My use for Last.fm

Mostly figuring out what album you can find a specific song on. Actually using it to listen to music? It's handy to see if you like other music that an artist does instead of the one hit you know. That's about it so far. It would take a remodel of the site to be useful beyond that.

[partytildawn-20159620461052270]

30 Second Clips Still in Place

I just visited last.fm, and I found that the information contained in the article to be inaccurate. The site was still only streaming 30 second clips not the full song as the article stated.