W2 4tw!

OK, forget that last post. I don’t care what anyone says, Web 2.0 is the shit and it’s not going away anytime soon.

The Pirate Bay has recently hopped on the 2.0 bandwagon, adding spiffy Last.fm integration to retrieve similar artists, as well as discography information.

As TorrentFreak so delicately put it:

Here’s a screenshot of the artist details from Prince. I’m sure he will love this feature, since he’s one of the biggest Pirate Bay fans.

Burn. Anyway, this is an interesting utilization of open APIs of Web 2.0 sites. As several commenters on TF mentioned, Last.fm might object to this usage, and block TPB’s servers. I definitely don’t see that happening, though, as Last.fm, while now commercially owned, hasn’t proved itself to be completely stupid yet. Exposure is exposure, and they have to stay to some degree neck and neck with those at the forefront of internet music culture.

Let’s see how this trend spreads.