Maybe it's just me but I don't like seeing speculative crap like this on HN. I'll read it once there's an actual incident with some proof but this is just drama and it's the same reason I don't watch soaps on TV. Flagged even if it is not spam/fake.
"I'll read it once there's an actual incident with some proof"
TC is claiming that there _was_ an actual incident, they're claiming the data already _was_ handed over to the RIAA and they're basing this on an anonymous source (a technique which has broken some of the most famous stories in journalism).
TC would be insane to make it all up as this surely would meet the standard for libel.
You have a low bar for "proof." Michael Arrington is not the NY Times and his waving his hands in the air citing anonymous sources is neither informative nor interesting.
I will cancel my much beloved Last.fm account as soon as there is proof. Until then, please keep the bar above petty sniping and speculation.
You're comparing paper circulation to web page views. Don't do that. A more valid comparison is daily web visitors: nytimes.com with 12 million and techcrunch.com with 1.6 million.
