The story posted by the Web site was based on an unnamed tipster. No inquiry was made to CBS or Last.fm about the veracity of the anonymous source. Those who consult such blogs should be aware of the standard by which such postings are sourced and published.

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You may be aware that this weekend TechCrunch reposted their bullshit ‘OMG Last.FM are sharing data with the RIAA’ story. Last time around I lost my mind and spent about three days blogging all sorts of anger about TechCrunch and how much of a vindictive, manipulative, trolling, industry harming flangehorse Michael Arrington is. Then Last.FM officially responded with TechCrunch are full of shit and won the internet.

This time around Last.FM staff like Russ spent the weekend engaged with users on their forums, issuing new denials and having really interesting dialogue about it all. TechCrunch spent the weekend baiting, deleting legitimate criticism from their blog comments and getting inexplicably aggressive on Twitter. Go figure.

There are couple of separate issues that I wanted to raise about it in a future post, but meantime, CBS issued a short, swift denial (which surely won’t satisfy Arrington), finishing with this quite succinct dig at his now even more shambolic reputation. CBS, being a big faceless corporation, communicate in dull terms. But as far as cold corporate vernacular goes, I raise a glass and a smile to this cold, corporate reimagining of ‘TechCrunch are full of shit’.

(via. Last.fm Denies Data-Sharing Accusations, Again - Digits - WSJ) Via: The Wall Street Journal.