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In order to to sum up the good effects of the still on-going equal rights for last.fm members (for the time being), and the positive and warm experience you had until now by reaching members in your country and all over the world, and by listening to their radio and discovering their music >>>>> PLEASE press "reply" and send YOUR POSITIVE EXPERIENCE. We will put them on a list and send it in a letter of protest to last.fm, as a big colourful mosaic list of lively experienced arguments in favour of our last.fm radio that gives equal access to every user! If you like to stay anonymous in the letter, send your reply to the inbox of "pietertothemuze" profile (group leader). Then your contribution will be used for the purpose stated above, but without mentioning your name in the letter or elsewhere.
Write about your positive contact with other members and their radio! Remember: one reply for every pro-equal-rights-experience, and you'll be fantastic! (We can only translate from Français, Deutsch and Nederlands replies at this time, and the letter will only be written in/ translated to English.)Official last.fm statement April 2009: "... radio in the USA, UK and Germany will remain ad-supported, and radio in other countries where it’s not feasible to have an ad-supported service will be moving to a subscription service."

A few words

Dear friend of Last fm
Regardless to the subject aloud me to express my feelings
I founded in the radio an unique opportunity not to only listen the best unknown music but to communicate and create friends
So I'm discovering that there's a huge world out there I wasn't able to reach.
Last fm gave me a home and made of this world a better place .This is not about music anymore, It's about me talking to you and to a polish or a Chinese at the same time.
We are 30 millions listeners . Let's say that 10 millions are ready to pay. We are loosing people . We are taking away from this people the only chance they've got to feel that the world is a better place to stay. because in the 3rd world you are fighting against reality everyday but when they get home , they can forget for a while and feel the same way we do, because Last fm equals us.
Last fm equals the positions of people on earth. That's an amazing achievement.They have done it , they are doing it and there shouldn't be a way back.
So we are missing people , and you know what ? We are loosing the most interesting people. The kind of people that always loose!
The very same people that Last fm gave the opportunity to believe that there's a small chance to be equal.
Me, I don't wanna be part of a selected group, and you know why? I have nothing to share with them.
I hope that Last fm is aware of the important social mission is making no matter some cost , and keep bringing the best food for the souls on earth.
I wish to listen from you
and wish to listen from all. Daniel Ber, Buenos Aires

Before Last.fm, I wasn't even aware that music existed at all outside the corporate labels, and the site has recommended me loads of good things that otherwise I would never have found. Not to mention I've been reunited with lots of songs I had years ago.
I don't often use the radio either (although I use the last.fm player thing to try out new songs a lot), but when I do, it's always been interesting.
It's nice to know there's lots of good stuff out there. =)

Last.fm's social revolution to me is an extra musical revelation. A celebration, kool. In the beginning it was tough. It was hard metal at the most unexpected moments, and metal is not my kind of music. No pun intended, because it would just be weird not to have a personal flavour. I had to learn about the system. I am the loving kind, but I learned to ban some tracks and even some artists. It was worth the time. Out of it comes my radio and other's matching radio's. Now I talk about last.fm with my colleagues and a friend or two (who have fast internet), and I link and I shout. I reorganised my music collection partly thanks to a stimulating last.fm. "Life is music", as the message from Belgian radio Studio Brussel says, but I'm mostly not so keen at listening to their music, and then there's the audio ads, the news flashes, the babbling about ... no, here at last.fm it's better. Last.fm is here to explore, to find new music, to read the artist's bio's. So I was very dissapointed to hear that there will be a different contribution policy, because I get bad dreams about it (not literally, don't you worry). A user said: "A bottle of coke can also be more expensive in one country compared to the other." True. But the tourist who can afford to get there in the first place (especially the coke drinking tourist), he won't mind, really. And that bottle of coke, you'll drink it at home sweet home once you're back from your holidays. What worries me, is that for all sorts of so-called reasons, trade will become protected again. And many people won't buy goods from elsewhere if these are more expensive. To me, the message that last.fm sends with installing their new policy, is: "dissatisfied? well, go elsewhere then." But the one elsewhere needs the other elsewhere. The next alias of last.fm and another one, will they all have their own territories then, except when you pay all the subsequental contributions? Then I prefer just my one subscription at Last.fm, a Last.fm with a strong going profile with a fair give and take policy for every customer and musician. Because people need each other's influences. Otherwise, it's about protectionism, and banning influences and banning juices of life. Next thing you know, is that you will have to put an identity card in your card-reader connected to your computer, and popping up on your screen is a list of where you can go on the world wide web, and where not, and what you can afford and what not. I'm not a Phd nore a self-taught specialist on the matter. It is my intuition that was revolting from the first moment I read about the new last.fm's policy. And I do know economic life is tough. But so are we. We fight back.

Since 2006 I have used LastFm to discover new music, it has been my main and one of the best sources for that...
besides all that I have found friends even from another continent, that's another high for me...
During these years my english has improved A LOT, also I have been able to increase my Spanish level.... And that's invaluable for me...
MUSIC REALLY MADE SOCIAL! Music really unites the world, therefore, LastFm, sanity, please!
There are so many precious users whom to consider with. We don't want them to disappear, or do we?
Neither do I want to lose my current or possible future acquaintances.
Even if I could afford your monthly fee, LastFm(definitely it's expensive for me too, I am from East Europe where these 3 euros are not pennies at all), I know that there are many who probably consider this charge too high and manage not to pay, leaving and prefering other ways to enjoy the richness of music world...
The world is whole, entirety, not just regions.
And after having seen how CBS ruined totally LaunchCast Radio service (now it's few recurring very mainstreamy songs), I'd only ask you not to let the same happen to LastFm. I've always liked the huge variety of music here...
I have been with LastFm so long and I'd like to stay during the years that come, so I hope you make that possible, not just for me, nor for the selected "elite" but for everyone!

Ines, from Tallinn, Estonia

last.fm has been a musical lifeline for me since I left the UK, now that life line has become a border line, discrimination is discrimination... whats next guys? charging muslim users double? come on, keep it free or charge everyone...