So, I have a question for all of you last.fm users out there: What happens when you play leaked tracks? I haven't downloaded last.fm because I'm concerned about the tracking of leaked songs (since it could likely be traced to a persons' IP), but from what I can tell, there's no record on there of any albums that I know have leaked. (Ex. I looked up Skeletal Lamping, and it appears as though no one has listened to it.) So what happens? Do they just kind of ignore the fact that you listened to it? Or is it just something only you can see?

Nothing happens. What you listen to isn't tracked by anyone, as far as I know. Leaked albums aren't added to the database, and don't show up in the top albums section till release, but masses start listening to them the day they leak - check the top tracks section, songs from Skeletal Lamping are all over it.

You can set it so that only you can see what you've been listening to, but yeah as I said, don't think there's anything to worry about.

The RIAA does not look at your lastfm charts.

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Originally posted by Liberalkid:
The RIAA does not look at your lastfm charts.

Proving how incompetent they are once again ironically.

lol. I've survived alright, I'm sure the police won't be breaking down your door any day soon.

Thanks for the input guys. I actually went and signed up shortly after I wrote that post because I decided that it was kind of a stupid reason to not get lastfm. The ridiculous amount of stats you can get is pretty awesome.

http://www.last.fm/user/CMG88/

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Originally posted by MilotheMayor:

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Originally posted by Liberalkid:
The RIAA does not look at your lastfm charts.

Proving how incompetent they are once again ironically.

This only proves they know, in some cases, how not to waste time. Since I highly doubt lastfm charts, hold up in court, or are grounds for a subpoena.

Can't you see Lars Ulrich with a bunch of screen prints from last.fm crying to a judge that they're listening to leaked Metallica tracks.

That is of course if anyone would care to listen to leaked Metallica tracks.

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Originally posted by Liberalkid:

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Originally posted by MilotheMayor:

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Originally posted by Liberalkid:
The RIAA does not look at your lastfm charts.

Proving how incompetent they are once again ironically.

This only proves they know, in some cases, how not to waste time. Since I highly doubt lastfm charts, hold up in court, or are grounds for a subpoena.

Since it simply goes by ID3 tag, there's no way. You could be listening to the new Metallica leak, or you could be listening to squirrel mating songs in MP3 format tagged with Metallica song names. There's no way to know for sure.

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Originally posted by Nibbish:
Since it simply goes by ID3 tag, there's no way. You could be listening to the new Metallica leak, or you could be listening to squirrel mating songs in MP3 format tagged with Metallica song names. There's no way to know for sure.

No. That's actually Metalica. They aren't misnamed. You're going to jail.