At least in Canada anyway. Yesterday, last.fm announced on its blog that only users in the USA, the UK and Germany will continue to enjoy free access to the service. Everyone else will require a €3.00 per month subscription.
http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/24/lastf...o-announcement
Sounds like a licensing issue with labels and artists. I wasn't an avid user of the site but these kinds of developments are disappointing to me nonetheless.
What do you think?