Last.fm free to Xbox Live Gold users Comments by Tom Bramwell

@bioreit

You are right, I was making the wrong argument considering the headline, and your point. Sorry.

But I was more picking up on the fact that people were saying you can't moan about it being ad-supported because it's a free service, and in that case I think it's fair to question the definition of free when you're paying £40 to MS (who presumably pay Last.fm, not your electricity company or your sofa maker) to be in a position to receive it in the first place.

I guess the reason I went after this "with such zeal" is beacause Last.fm is already completely free to anyone with an internet browser (in this country anyway), and it just seems a shame that Microsoft have applied their unfortunate segregated online system to this as well as online gaming and excluded 50% of their user-base from the service. It will be interesting to see what happens with Twitter and Facebook.

And the fact that you're paying the same amount for Sky as those who get Sky+broadband doesn't mean they're getting it free, it means you're subsidising their service.

"and it just seems a shame that Microsoft have applied their unfortunate segregated online system"

This is what I was trying to say with my elitist comment. Just make it accessible across the board.

"Last.fm free to everyone except Xbox Live Silver users".

That's right, even Wii users can get this.

Last.fm is only good for stat tracking and recommendations...Spotify pisses all over it terms of actual content.

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