Not necessarily (IMO). The listening data that the scrobbler collects (can't get used to that new name...), must be extremely valuable as it's an automatic way of working out listening habits, popularity and (most importantly, I think), music connections. Think of the "suggestions" you see on something like Amazon.com - nobody must type those suggestions in by hand and, whilst for Amazon they may be based on their sales they (or for similar retailers) must find actual listening data very useful for such targeted advertising - particularly as it can be much more up-to-date than historical purchases.
I wouldn't think a new owner would want to cease collecting that data as I would expect most of it is collected from non-subscribers and so they'd be losing much of their data. I would think they make more money from the data they collect than from their subscriptions. Of course, this is just conjecture - they might have a privacy policy that states they don't do such things (I've not checked), and you can never predict what corporate motivations might be. Stuart TCM wrote: > So what do you think: if the deal would go through - business as usual > or can anybody say "subscription service"? > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
