The story from Last.fm about how they’ve found that providing free music has helped stimulate sales (Free Music Encourages Sales)is certainly doing the rounds reaching the inkies as well as numerous music blogs.

Although the article relates to making tracks free on Last.fm and linking them to affiliated paid download sites.  I’m sure the clear evidence here is going to be used by to add weight to the claims that P2P sharing doesn’t do as much to hurt sales as the major record labels would like everyone to believe.