Discussion: Grooveshark shut down.

iHype.

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The music streaming service agrees to settle with the major labels and is "wiping its servers of all the record companies’ music, and surrendering ownership of its website, mobile apps and intellectual property."

The Gainesville, Fla.-based service, which the labels took to court for lacking licenses, was dealt its most recent legal blow in early April when EMI, now owned by Universal, was granted a motion for summary judgment. At that point, total damages were estimated at $420 million based on the court's finding that 2,807 EMI-copyrighted sound recordings existed on Grooveshark's servers.

As news arrives today, Grooveshark was facing up to $736 million in statutory damages at a trial that was about to begin. The maximum statutory penalty per infringement is $150,000 for willful violations.

Said the Grooveshark founders, via the RIAA statement: “Despite the best of intentions, we made very serious mistakes. We failed to secure licenses from rights holders for the vast amount of music on our service. That was wrong. We apologize.”

I used the site occasionally when YouTube, SoundCloud, etc would always take down new songs, or labels wouldn't allow some songs to be uploaded on them. + you could scrobble on last.fm from it, which was a plus.

Message on the site:
http://grooveshark.com/

Wonderland

Last time I used it was like... 2008 at primary school.

Rest in peace

6 Apple St

ok @ that message. time to change themes

Su-Barbie-A

Damn you, music industry.

Bey_Rihstan

I have never heard of this

I Am Music

First Nickreboot now this.

Singer.

Probably would've cared I were still in grade 6.

chilicheese01

Tidal did them in.

Aurora

I kinda use their service from time to time for... things... so this is sad.

Igrt

Never used it tbh

Mr.Link

Good, now cheap people and hipsters can finally start using Spotify

LoKoPaNdA

A friend of mine tried to get me to use it, she liked the chat feature. i didn't like it much.

Moonage Daydream

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Originally posted by Mr.Link

Good, now cheap people and hipsters can finally start using Spotify

I use Spotify and I still turn to Grooveshark occasionally because there's still a lot of songs/albums/artists that aren't available on Spotify.

Besides, cheap people will simply resort to piracy, which can never be completely stamped out.

superben

No

Spotify is not even available in my country.

Latinazza

Harsh.

Pulse

A shame. They always had those rare z-list artist albums I couldn't find anywhere

GS had a bunch of unreleased tracks I didn't get around to rip

BadBitches

Itemvn >>>>

Porygon2z

Never used it, tbh.
But too bad for the people that still used it. =/

chilicheese01

It's true that they had some music that wasn't very popular or wasn't in English that I would listen to on there, because the songs weren't available on Spotify and Youtube quality sucks. In a way, this is bad, but I can probably just find those tracks elsewhere.

Reverie

Omg NOOOO

They had so much music that Spotify was missing. I'm devastated