43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach

Re:43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach by rawrmaan on Thursday September 01, 2016 @08:18PM (#12409839)

Wow! They had some great growth going on and it seemed to hit a wall hard around 2008-2009. Any idea why?

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Re:43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach by anexprogrammer on Thursday September 01, 2016 @08:43PM (#12409946)

Easy. CBS bought them late 2007. Dev and updates pretty much stopped. They limited tracks you could play directly.

Then they killed radio.

I'm really sad to see it die, it was better at introducing me to new artists than any other service before or since, and the radio was brilliant.

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Re:43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach by joecool1029 on Thursday September 01, 2016 @09:17PM (#12410098)

Oh you must have left awhile ago then. I agree they ruined the best music discovery service on the web, but even without it the site was dated but functional.. until last year.

Last year CBS decided the whippersnappers needed a redesign and took out around 80% of the features and put the site into a perpetual beta state.

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Re:43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach by anexprogrammer on Thursday September 01, 2016 @09:40PM (#12410209)

Didn't really give up until they had the fabulous idea to replace direct streaming with playing poor match Youtube videos as radio. That killed radio finally and made a none functioning joke of the main reason I bought my network music player.

Was mad about that as Last radio was my first choice for work listening.

The site was dated as they were frozen in 2008 - After CBS bought them there was one update very soon after then the site didn't change at all until last year. Minor updates and bug fixes only.

As for the update last year, pretty and vacant, doesn't bring back the things I loved about the site, but lets me see lots of pretty graphs of things I'm not interested in. I took a look at libre fm after that, but that's even more abandoned.

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Re:43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach by rhizome on Thursday September 01, 2016 @09:35PM (#12410181)

Could have been worse, they could have hired the guy who redid Flickr and Chowhound.

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Re:43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach by type0 on Saturday September 03, 2016 @06:26PM (#12421548)

It's tragic how corporate greed can kill such an awesome site. They wasn't even ashamed to ask for money in countries where they didn't had adverts while they were removing the features from its users.

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Re:43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach by NeutronBoy on Thursday September 01, 2016 @08:31PM (#12409890)

Soundcloud launched in 2008. Spotify launched in 2008. Only a year or so after Facebook opened signups to anyone IIRC. Not exactly sure what the impact on Last.fm would have been but it evidently wasn't good.

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Re:43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach by zippy on Thursday September 01, 2016 @08:27PM (#12409876)

http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement

"In all other countries, listening to Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription of €3.00 per month."

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Re:43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach by type0 on Saturday September 03, 2016 @06:28PM (#12421557)

And at the same time they weren't treating us as customers, more like second rate users.

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Re:43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach by datamart on Thursday September 01, 2016 @08:29PM (#12409882)

Maybe this is due to Spotify starting to gain traction around that time? https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=2004-08-01%202012...

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